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Francis Soler
MADAGASCAR Editor in Chief
Rajoelina wants to run transition alone
The fragile political consensus established during the previous negotiations (Maputo I and II, then Addis Ababa) fell to pieces after Maputo III, when three of the four political camps shared out the ministerial portfolios in the absence of the movement of the transition President Andry Rajoelina known as TGV. (...)   [712 words]   [$11,2]
SEYCHELLES
Setback for Financial Intelligence Unit
  The Financial Intelligence Unit has had to unfreeze an American’s bank account because of a lack of proof. (...)
POLITICS & POWER
MOZAMBIQUE
Washington doesn’t trust Guebuza
   President Armando Guebuza seems just a little too non-aligned for the taste of a growing number of American experts at strategic studies centres and high-ranking officers.  (...)  [281 words]   [$7]

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Dar es Salaam    The French Ambassador to Tanzania, Jacques Champagne de Labriolle sent an email via his services to all French people resident in Tanzania on 14 December to inform them that “the French government has embarked, since 2 November 2009, on a great debate on national identity”. (...)  [91 words]   [$2,1]
Djibouti    President Ismail Omar Guelleh would seem to be still hesitating on how to announce his candidacy in the 2011 presidential election and the amendment to the constitution that would involve. (...)  [94 words]   [$2,1]
Addis Ababa    From his vantage point of exile in Zimbabwe, the former President of Ethiopia Mengistu Haile Mariam told certain of his old political friends that he had finished writing his memoires. (...)  [103 words]   [$2,1]
Kampala    The unrest in Uganda sparked by a bill that if passed would condemn homosexuals to prison has pushed the American evangelist minister Rick Warren to distance himself from it. (...)  [102 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
Arap Moi asks Kibaki for help
   Former President Daniel arap Moi is contacting his successor Mwai Kibaki repeatedly for help to stop his land in the Mau Forest being seized.  (...)  [305 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
A worrying election victory
   The landslide victory by President Sambi's partisans in the legislative election was so overwhelming that it might be considered questionable. Particularly in view of the high abstention rate of 60%.  (...)  [368 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
Mission impossible for USAID
   USAID is to launch a programme to support political plurality ahead of the presidential election and the 2011 regional election. We wish them luck!  (...)  [226 words]   [$7]

ON THE LINE
KENYA
Odinga's son makes waves in the ODM in Kenya
    Fidel Castro Odinga, the son of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, caused turmoil in his father’s party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), when he announced that he wanted to run for a seat in Parliament from the Nairobi Province in the 2012 general election. (...)  [193 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA
Amama Mbabazi top of the bill in Uganda
    The Minister for Security, Amama Mbabazi, is the unwitting star of the latest report by the Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda (ACCU). (...)  [148 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI
Tension in the Day region in Djibouti
    Relations have become somewhat strained lately between certain tribal authorities in the Day region in the northern part of the country, and the Djibouti government. (...)  [111 words]   [$2,1]
SOMALIA
The Islamists take over mines in Somalia
    The decision by the radical Islamist organisation Al-Shabab to ban the United Nations Mine Action Services (UNMAS) from operating in the zones under its control does not stem uniquely from ideological considerations. (...)  [120 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
Down with Al Amoudi in Ethiopia
    An unauthorised demonstration on 8 December by students at Shakiso, in the southern part of Ethiopia, a region where the company Midroc operates a gold mine, was bitterly angry with Mohamed Hussein Al Amoudi, the Saudi-Ethiopian magnate who owns this company. (...)  [163 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
Military influx into the government
   Following the appointment of Colonel Camille Vital as Prime Minister, another officer is tipped for minister of the interior. Could this be a step to a military-civilian government?  (...)  [223 words]   [$7]
ERITREA
Afeworki’s friend is in trouble
   Pier Gianni Prosperini, a personal friend of the Eritrean President, has just been imprisoned in Italy for corruption.  (...)  [198 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
An ill wind in Washington
   President Yoweri Museveni will not like the LRA Bill that is expected to be passed by the US Senate the end of the year and will go to the House of Representatives in February 2010.  (...)  [203 words]   [$7]
BUSINESS CIRCLES
KENYA
Samuel Macharia wins the jackpot
   The company Royal Media Services (RMS) owned by the magnate Samuel Kamau Macharia is still benefiting from a healthy status with the Kenyan authorities.  (...)  [223 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
MADAGASCAR
Cogemine Madagascar Minerals
 [76 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
Nyota Minerals Ltd
 [94 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
Noventa Ltd
 [146 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
EABL
 [120 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
Minergy Holdings
 [44 words]   [FREE]
DJIBOUTI
Electricité de Djibouti
 [148 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
Energizer Resources Inc
 [153 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
Camec
 [125 words]   [$2,1]
SEYCHELLES
Lefèvre Pelletier
 [93 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTHERN AFRICA
Econet Wireless
 [102 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
Ramdaursingh’s network in SBM
   Rajah Ramdaursingh has built up a network of friends and close contacts since he became chairman of the country’s number two bank, SBM Ltd, at the end of 2007.  (...)  [265 words]   [$7]
AFRICA
IFC knows where to place its bets
   At the beginning of 2010, the IFC is to approve no less than five programmes to finance companies and funds active in Africa, totalling $ 400 million.  (...)  [245 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
BHP Billiton bogged down in Chibuto
   The mining company BHP Billiton wants its mining permit on heavy sands in Chibuto to be extended once again. But it still has no intention of working it.  (...)  [149 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
Indian firms go on the offensive
   An increasing number of Indian companies are carrying off contracts in Djibouti.  (...)  [245 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
Ex-Shell employees launch Dalol Oil
   Several instigators of the new oil distribution company Dalol Oil are former Shell employees who left the firm when it was taken over by Oil Libya in Ethiopia.  (...)  [311 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
Setback for Financial Intelligence Unit
   The Financial Intelligence Unit has had to unfreeze an American’s bank account because of a lack of proof.  (...)  [216 words]   FREE
SEYCHELLES
What arms for Spanish trawlers
   The private security companies protecting the Spanish trawlers against Somalian pirates have come up against administrative problems.  (...)  [145 words]   [$7]

WHO'S WHO
MADAGASCAR
Camille Albert Vital
   The new Malagasy Prime Minister, Colonel Camille Albert Vital, 57, born of a Greek mother naturalised French and an Antandroy father, is well known in the south of Madagascar.  (...)  [159 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
Aden Robleh Awaleh
   The Parti National Démocratique (PND) convention which was held in Djibouti on 16 December approved the investiture of its leader Aden Robleh Awaleh as a candidate for the 2011 presidential  (...)  [210 words]   [$7]
ZIMBABWE
Walter Muzembi
   The Minister for Tourism Walter Muzembi is taking hits from all sides for accepting to work with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.  (...)  [133 words]   [$7]
KENYA
Patrick L. O. Lumumba
   The choice of Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba as the next director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) did not make everybody happy.  (...)  [311 words]   [$7]
KENYA
Omingo Magara
   The Deputy Minister for Trade, Omingo Magara, whose election as an MP in 2007 had been annulled following an appeal, will be hard put to gain the investiture of his party, the Orange  (...)  [126 words]   [$7]

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