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The Indian Ocean Newsletter /Archives

Archive n° 1207 - 02/03/2007

MADAGASCAR

Editor in Chief

The Tiko Boys take the reins

The new government of Madagascar is stuffed full of Tiko Boys, men close to President Marc Ravalomanana some of who have worked for the Tiko group of companies owned by the Head of State. (...) [672 words] [$8.2]

FREE ARTICLE

	The Islamist Internet instrument
	The Internet web site set up by partisans of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) relates back to associations and companies based in the United Kingdom. (...) [254 words] [FREE]

POLITICS & POWER


SEYCHELLES
To boycott or not to boycott
On 26 January Wavel Ramkalawan, the leader of the Seychelles National Party (SNP, opposition), confirmed to the Electoral Commissioner Hendricks Gappy the conditions under which his organisation would participate in the parliamentary elections this year. (...) [314 words] [$4.7]

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS


	Addis Abeba The former journalist Fassil Assefa has joined the horde of members of the Ethiopian private press who have taken refuge in Kenya. (...) [146 words] [$1.5]


	Antananarivo Two relatives of former Malagasy Prime Ministers have just banded together to create a cleaning and janitor company called M Ressources. (...) [104 words] [$1.5]


	Lisbon An error slipped in into the Portugal-Africa supplement to The Indian Ocean Newsletter (number 1206). (...) [80 words] [$1.5]


	Mamoudzou The former secretary general of the Prefecture of Reunion Island (2000-04), has just been appointed Prefect of Mayotte. (...) [44 words] [FREE]


KENYA
Kamlesh Pattni buys friends
Some former Kenyan MPs are trying to be nominated by Pattni’s political party in the next parliamentary elections so as to benefit from his generosity. (...) [397 words] [$4.7]


SOMALIA
US backing for the intervention
After training Ethiopian special troops, American servicemen provided support for their operation against Islamist forces in Somalia. (...) [256 words] [$4.7]


SOMALIA
The Islamist Internet instrument
The Internet web site set up by partisans of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) relates back to associations and companies based in the United Kingdom. (...) [254 words] [FREE]

ON THE LINE


	UGANDA Kampala ready to fight the LRA The Ugandan authorities are preparing for a possible resumption of fighting against the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA, rebel movement) of Joseph Kony. (...) [218 words] [$1.5]


	EUROPE/AFRICA Lisbonn wants its Europe/Africa summit The issue of the participation by President Robert Mugabe in the Europe/Africa summit that Portugal plans to organise in Lisbon while it is president of the European Union (in the second half of 2007), is still posing a problem. (...) [234 words] [$1.5]


	SOMALIA A new Islamist military chief in Somalia A new Islamist military chief prepared to do battle with the Ethiopian forces present in Somalia, has made his appearance under the name of Sheikh Abdiqadir. (...) [113 words] [$1.5]


	INDIAN OCEAN The CCI Franco-Malgache-Océan Indien is restructuring Since mid January the Chambre Commerciale Internationale Franco Malgache Océan Indien (CCIFMOI), based in Marseilles, has a new chairman in the person of Paul Pérénet. (...) [206 words] [$1.5]


MADAGASCAR
Sylla finds jobs for his advisors
Shortly before leaving his functions last week, the former Prime Minister of Madagascar was keen to find jobs for several of his men of confidence. (...) [405 words] [$4.7]


COMOROS ISLANDS
Port consortium in the thick of conflict
The dispute between the Union and the islands over running the Comoros ports has led the executives of Al Marwan in Sharjah to put back the firm’s official opening ceremony in Moroni. (...) [286 words] [$4.7]

BUSINESS CIRCLES


	MOZAMBIQUE
	Two offspring in business together
	The sons of two former members of the Mozambican government have for some time become inseparable business partners. Pascoal Mahikete Mocumbi, the son of a former Mozambican Prime (...) [200 words] [$4.7]

COMPANIES


	Exim Bank Ltd TANZANIA [149 words] [$1.5]


	Swissta MOZAMBIQUE [116 words] [$1.5]


	Air Assistance MADAGASCAR [72 words] [$1.5]


	Sugec Minerais MOZAMBIQUE [120 words] [$1.5]


	Blackwater SUDAN [172 words] [$1.5]


	Intex Construction KENYA [167 words] [$1.5]


	Aberdeen International ETHIOPIA [130 words] [$1.5]


	Monroe Minerals SOUTH AFRICA [169 words] [$1.5]


	KENYA
	De La Rue applies new pressure
	Several international companies are competing for a tamper-proof passport contract worth 30 million euros. (...) [369 words] [$4.7]


	MAURITIUS
	The reason for Taposeea’s departure
	Kamal Taposeea was just 7 months at the head of the Mauritius subsidiary of the South African Standard Bank. (...) [211 words] [$4.7]


	MOZAMBIQUE
	Machel's son takes to the air
	One of the sons of the late President Samora Machel has transformed his firm for tracing stolen cars into an air transport company. (...) [167 words] [$4.7]


	SUDAN
	Telecoms war in Khartoum
	The leading company in the mobile telephone market in Khartoum, Mobitel, a subsidiary of the Kuwaiti group MTC, is concerned by its rivals’ ambitions. (...) [255 words] [FREE]


	SUDAN
	Oil companies going for Juba
	Like White Nile and Ascom, both of which have already signed oil exploration contracts with the authorities in South Sudan, other companies are want to do likewise. (...) [317 words] [$4.7]


	ETHIOPIA
	Businessmen back from afar
	Imprisoned for four years for corruption and later cleared of these allegations, the owners of the Star Business Group have carved out a new niche in Addis Ababa. (...) [395 words] [$4.7]

WHO'S WHO


	SUDAN
	Jacques Hachuel
	Active for decades as an oil trader, this longstanding Franco-Spanish businessman - born in Morocco of an Argentinean father and Spanish mother - is on the look out for an oil exploration (...) [157 words] [$4.7]


	ETHIOPIA
	Shimeles Kemale
	The chief prosecutor in the trials for treason and genocide that the Ethiopian authorities have brought against a dozen leaders of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (CUDP, (...) [180 words] [$4.7]


	AFRICA/UNITED STATES
	Arnold Fields
	A retired general in the Marine Corps has been appointed deputy director of the United States Africa Center for Strategics Studies (ACSS), hence becoming the deputy to the retired (...) [139 words] [$4.7]


	SOMALIA
	Bashir Ahmed Makhtal
	A Canadian originally from the Ogaden region in Ethiopia stands a strong risk of coming into the hands of the Ethiopian army. (...) [203 words] [$4.7]


	MADAGASCAR
	Frédéric Rasamoely
	The new governor of the Banque Centrale de Madagascar (BCM) is a celebrity well known as a political moderate. (...) [249 words] [$4.7]

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