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Francis Soler
UNITED STATES/AFRICA Editor in Chief
Prospective presidents and their networks
Almost all the prospective candidates for the investiture by the major American parties in the 2008 presidential election have one or more advisors with a good knowledge of Africa. Some also have networks of influence on this continent. This spotlight takes a look at their Africa advisors. (...)   [716 words]   [$11,2]
SOMALIA
American spies in Bosaso?
  According to local elders, American intelligence agents are present in Puntland. (...)
POLITICS & POWER
MADAGASCAR
Tiko’s hold on the local election
   Sarah Radavidra, the eldest daughter of President Marc Ravalomanana, is to take over running the election campaign of Hery Rafalimanana, the candidate fielded by the Presidential party Tiako i Madagasikara (TIM) for Mayor of Antananarivo in the forthcoming local elections on 12 December.  (...)  [233 words]   [$7]

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Dar es-Salaam    The Tanzanian President’s director of communications, Salva N. B. (...)  [125 words]   [$2,1]
Khartoum    The Sudanese government has opened a consulate in Hong Kong and has accredited Peter Lee as its honorary consul. (...)  [51 words]   [$2,1]
Antananarivo    The chairman of the Fédération des Chambres de Commerce, d’Industrie & d’Agriculture de Madagascar, Patrick Rakotoarison now has a new advisor in the person of Robert Randriambololona. (...)  [94 words]   [$2,1]
Victoria    For the first time, the governing SPPF has been condemned to pay damages to an opposition Member of Parliament. (...)  [96 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
Navin Ramgoolam's sugar allies
   Navin Ramgoolam has set up a new team of advisors to help him in his trial of strength with the Mauritius Sugar Producers Association.  (...)  [378 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
Michael Reilly’s stinging report
   The commission investigating the incidents on 3 October 2006 has produced a report that condemns the Special Support Unit, going as far as to recommend its dissolution.  (...)  [317 words]   [$7]
SOMALIA
American spies in Bosaso?
   According to local elders, American intelligence agents are present in Puntland.  (...)  [349 words]   FREE

ON THE LINE
MADAGASCAR
An honorary consul at the front line in Madagascar
    The mayor of the rural municipality of Ambohitrimanjaka, situated near the Malagasy capital, Malas Ralison, 64, has been in the front line of diplomacy for several months. (...)  [176 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
Raila Odinga’s advisors in Kenya
    With the opinion polls putting him in the leading place for the presidential election in December Raila Odinga has formed a team with several groups of advisors. (...)  [262 words]   [$2,1]
SEYCHELLES
The law firm Aramis is aiding the Seychelles
    ? The government of the Seychelles has retained the French law firm Aramis to help it negotiate an economic partnership agreement with the European Community on behalf of the Indian Ocean countries to replace the Cotonou agreement in 2008. (...)  [152 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
Jacinto Veloso’s memoirs goes on sale in Lisbon
    After being sold in Mozambique on a test basis (just 500 copies were printed) at the end of 2006, the memoirs of the former Mozambican minister, still a member of the Frelimo (ruling party) hierarchy, Jacinto Veloso went on sale in Lisbon on 14 November, published by Papa-Letras. (...)  [153 words]   [$2,1]
TANZANIA
Iddi Simba opposite the miners
   Two opposition MPs and one CCM dignitary in favour of indigenising the economy are on the committee to revise certain mining contracts.  (...)  [323 words]   [$7]
KENYA
Pro-Kibakis against the polls
   The strategists in Kibaki’s election campaign team are applying pressure on the Nation Media Group for it to stop publishing polls unfavourable to the outgoing President.  (...)  [263 words]   [$7]
AFRICA/FRANCE
Sarkozy’s Africa specialists
   While the new French President Nicolas Sarkozy may not have the “African streak”, African leaders can nevertheless access the presidency through any of numerous secret doors.  (...)  [334 words]   [$7]
AFRICA/FRANCE
Kouchner, the “military-humanitarian” Minister
   Barely had Bernard Kouchner settled in the gilded Foreign Ministry buildings on the Quai d’Orsay that he had his hands tied when it comes to placing all his allies.  (...)  [318 words]   [$7]
Army
The officers keen on Africa
   After spending many years in the spotlight, Colonel Gérard Dubois has been in the shadows since the end of 2006 when he became the new Middle-East/Africa advisor to the Head of the Armed Services (Cema), General Jean Louis Georgelin.  (...)  [322 words]   [$7]
BUSINESS CIRCLES
TANZANIA
Dignitaries’ offspring at the BoT
   The oft-repeated accusations in the media and by Tanzanian opposition MPs of shady operations by the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) under its governor Daudi Ballali have brought yet another  (...)  [280 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
MOZAMBIQUE
Escopil Internacional
 [76 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
CBL International
 [82 words]   [$2,1]
TANZANIA
Shanta Gold
 [121 words]   [$2,1]
COMOROS ISLANDS
Manseau Associés
 [134 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA
SN Power
 [164 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
Reliance Communications
 [167 words]   [$2,1]
SEYCHELLES
Cable & Wireless
 [102 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
Gesser Limitada
 [129 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI
Star Cement
 [125 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
Iran is beginning to make inroads
   Several Kenyan businessmen have held meetings with entrepreneurs in a delegation from the Iranian ministry of foreign affairs on a trip through Africa.  (...)  [375 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS/FRANCE
Bailiffs visit BNP in Paris
   The legal battle going on in Moroni for several months between Shamir Kamoula’s firm Nicom and the BIC has now moved to Paris.  (...)  [287 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
Diplomats in telemarketing
   The Intelec group in which President Armando Guebuza is a shareholder has just formed a partnership with two Mozambican former diplomats to create a telemarketing company.  (...)  [208 words]   FREE
MADAGASCAR
English and design for textiles
   An English-speaking expert from UNIDO wants to relaunch an old project to reorganise the textiles sector in the Malagasy export processing zones.  (...)  [264 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
Razaka's first dossier
   Power & Water's plan to build a power station is to be put before the new minister for energy and mining.  (...)  [229 words]   [$7]
KENYA
KBR recruits for Baghdad and Kabul
   The largest contractor for the American army is trying to hire Kenyans to go and work in the war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.  (...)  [164 words]   [$7]
Development
The strategic financiers at work
   For many years the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) had simply been the mere instrument for French international development.  (...)  [402 words]   [$7]
Business
Africans at the helm in Paris
   Few major groups in France venture to put the management of their Africa departments in the hands of someone whose roots are in that continent.  (...)  [347 words]   [$7]
Consulting
Very valuable lawyers at the Paris Courthouse
   In their relations with Paris, African Presidents use, and occasionally abuse, their political networks of well-connected lawyers. One of the more sought-after since President Nicolas  (...)  [359 words]   [$7]

WHO'S WHO
EUROPEAN UNION/ETHIOPIA
Dino Sinigallia
   An Italian, Dino Sinigallia, is to replace the Englishman Tim Clarke in the post of head of the European Union (EU) delegation to Ethiopia when his mandate comes to an end, at the  (...)  [177 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR/GERMANY
Hery Ramambasoa
   The son of the late vicar Ramambasoa, the former president of the FJKM, the reform church of which President Marc Ravalomanana is a top dignitary, has been appointed counsellor to  (...)  [170 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
Charles Mbiire
   The last Ugandan investor to still hold a minority stake in  (...)  [12 words]   [FREE]
SEYCHELLES/AFGHANISTAN
Luc Chang Ko
   The former director of meteorological services of the Seychelles has been nominated an expert to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Afghanistan.  (...)  [146 words]   [$7]
UNITED STATES/KENYA/SOMALIA
Susannah Price
   After spending many years as the BBC correspondent at the United Nations in New York, Susannah Price finally went to work for the international organisation whose activity she had  (...)  [124 words]   [$7]
NORWAY/SOMALILAND
Jarand Rystad
   The managing partner of Rystad Energy, a service company in the petroleum sector founded in 2004, went to Hargeisa at the beginning of November together with some other representatives  (...)  [140 words]   [$7]
AFRICA/FRANCE
Jean-Christophe Rufin
   Jean-Christophe Rufin is a very unusual Ambassador to Senegal. In 2001 he won the Goncourt prize for literature for his novel Rouge Brésil, he has worked for Médecins Sans Frontières  (...)  [116 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA/FRANCE
Joseph Zimet
   Joseph Zimet, a socialist in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn line, is not only the public aid advisor to the Secretary of State Jean-Marie Bockel.  (...)  [64 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA/FRANCE
Jacques Baudouin
   Jacques Baudouin, has been in the shadow of Bernard Kouchner for many years.  (...)  [46 words]   [$2,1]
Elysee/Africa
Bruno Joubert
   It was through the backing of his predecessor, Michel de Bonnecorse, that Bruno Joubert obtained the post of deputy diplomatic advisor to the President in charge of Africa.  (...)  [167 words]   [$2,1]
Licorne Force/Ivory Coast
Bruno Clément-Bollée
   The 53-year-old graduate of the Coëtquidan military academy and head of the Licorne operation in the Ivory Coast since the summer of 2007 has had extensive service in Africa, including  (...)  [114 words]   [$2,1]
MFA/France
Jean de Gliniasty
   The former French Ambassador to Dakar Jean de Gliniasty was appointed Africa and Indian Ocean Director in 2006.  (...)  [89 words]   [$2,1]
Bolloré
Michel Roussin
   The former chief of staff to Jacques Chirac at the Paris city hall and the former Minister of Cooperation in the government of Edouard Balladur, this former director of the French  (...)  [155 words]   [$2,1]
Cabinet Bourgi
Robert Bourgi
   The son of Mahmoud Bourgi, who was one of the “honourable correspondents” of Jacques Foccart, General de Gaulle’s Africa specialist during the 1960s, Robert Bourgi grew up in the French  (...)  [139 words]   [$2,1]
Sherpa
William Bourdon
   The General Secretary of the International Human Rights Federation (FIDH), William Bourdon who created the association Sherpa, is the terror of the African “emirs” in the Gulf of  (...)  [85 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA/FRANCE
Pierre-André Wiltzer "PAW"
   Pierre-André Wiltzer "PAW", Minister Delegate for Cooperation and Francophony during the Raffarin government (June 2002 - March 2004), is currently the chairman of the Agence Française  (...)  [168 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA/FRANCE
Eric Danon
   Eric Danon, who had taken leave of absence from the ministry for foreign affairs in 2001 to run a private consultancy, has now resumed his service in the highly sought-after post of  (...)  [130 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA/FRANCE
Nathalie Delapalme
   Nathalie Delapalme, has been based in Paris for over a decade where she is in the thick of African issues.  (...)  [165 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA/FRANCE
Pascal Drouhaud
   Pascal Drouhaud is now Alstom’s deputy director for the Americas, Spain and Portugal - a long way from his beloved African contacts.  (...)  [179 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA/FRANCE
Patrick Stefanini
   Patrick Stefanini, a well-connected man, has become the special advisor and grey eminence to Brice Hortefeux, the man in the delicate post of minister of immigration, integration,  (...)  [144 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA/FRANCE
Brigitte Girardin
    Brigitte Girardin is a former Minister for French overseas territories (2002-05) who later became Minister Delegate for Cooperation but is now left high and dry.  (...)  [80 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA/FRANCE
Valérie Terranova
   Valérie Terranova, had dreamed of being Secretary of State for Francophony under her mentor Jacques Chirac.  (...)  [202 words]   [$2,1]

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