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Francis Soler
KENYA Editor in Chief
Raila Odinga out to woo Central Province
In an attempt to make up for his foreseeable fall in popularity among the Kalenjin and the coastal populations following the dispute with his former allies William Ruto and Najib Balala, Prime Minister Raila Odinga has set out to win the voters in the Central Province (Kikuyu and related ethnic groups). (...)   [729 words]   [$11,2]
MADAGASCAR
Back to the starting point in Madagascar
  By accepting to sign a three-way agreement in Maputo, Andry Rajoelina’s opponents fell into a trap. (...)
POLITICS & POWER
DJIBOUTI
IOG expected to declare soon
   President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh could soon take advantage of the closing session of the education conference on 18 December to announce that he is to run for a third presidential mandate in the 2011 election.  (...)  [318 words]   [$7]

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
St Denis, Réunion Island    The Director General of the public body Agence de Développement de La Réunion, Paul Hibon, is to leave his post at the end of December. (...)  [93 words]   [$2,1]
Djibouti    The various companies which have been interested in running Chemin de fer Djibouto-Ethiopien (CDE) have all successively thrown in the towel over the past few years. (...)  [106 words]   [$2,1]
Victoria    The former First Lady of the Seychelles, Sarah René, is writing a biography of her husband, France Albert René who was President from 1977 until 2004 when he handed over power in mid-mandate to James Michel. (...)  [110 words]   [$2,1]
Antananarivo    A restaurant owner who lived for many years in Antsiranana before moving to Antananarivo, Barthélémy Coutiti created the firm Hanagna (specialised in collecting ore), in partnership with Frédéric Balman, a former public notary from Reunion Island. (...)  [71 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA
Action in Somalia boomerangs
   Uganda is increasingly wary of repercussions on its territory of its army’s action in Somalia. It has hence increased the surveillance of Somalians in Kampala.  (...)  [292 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
Sambi looks like winning his gamble
   The Comoran President’s political movement looks well placed to take control of the Assembly of the Union and of the Councils of the islands of Anjouan and Ngazidja.  (...)  [371 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
Back to the starting point in Madagascar
   By accepting to sign a three-way agreement in Maputo, Andry Rajoelina’s opponents fell into a trap.  (...)  [232 words]   FREE

ON THE LINE
SOMALIA
Paris has no news of its hostage in Somalia
    The French Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) has not made any progress whatsoever in its attempts to free its second intelligence agent still being held by Islamist rebels in Somalia after almost five months. (...)  [101 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
The Malagasy Ambassador to New York is very finicky
    The Madagascan Ambassador to the United Nations in New York, Zina Andrianarivelo-Razafy, has strengthened the measures to monitor staff in his embassy. (...)  [134 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
Ethiopia has an American ambassador at last
    The former American Ambassador to Ethiopia, David Shinn (who has now retired and taken up a new activity as an expert on East Africa) was not alone in feeling these last few weeks that it was about time that the Administration of President Barack Obama appointed a new ambassador to Addis Ababa if he is to take up his post before the Ethiopian general election to be held in the Spring of 2010. (...)  [259 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI
What will Japan give Djibouti in return?
    The Djibouti authorities are still very fierce in their negotiations with foreign powers over the right to install military bases on their territory. (...)  [109 words]   [$2,1]
SOMALIA
New security agreement with Puntland
    The CEO of the security company Threat Management Group (TMG, based in Kuwait and a subsidiary of Agility), Mark Mitchell and his director of international operations Gérard Righetti, recently went to Puntland. (...)  [140 words]   [$2,1]
TANZANIA
Battle rages at the headquarters
   The splits inside the government CCM have reached such a pitch that President Jakaya Kikwete is no longer immune to criticism.  (...)  [395 words]   [$7]
ERITREA/ETHIOPIA
Asmara wants to unite Ethiopian foes
   The Eritrean President has launched an umpteenth attempt to unite several Ethiopian armed opposition groups before the 2010 election in Ethiopia.  (...)  [332 words]   [$7]
BUSINESS CIRCLES
MADAGASCAR
Biometric cards going ahead
   The Malagasy transition authority doesn’t have the funds to finance the biometric identity cards project that it wants to deploy ahead of the general election planned for next yea  (...)  [219 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
ETHIOPIA
Pittards Plc
 [144 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
Proelec
 [106 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
Madamobil
 [173 words]   [$2,1]
EAST AFRICA
Eversheds LLP
 [114 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
Madagascar Petroleum Project
 [141 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
Yara International
 [114 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
Ordsafe International
 [124 words]   [$2,1]
SUDAN
WNPOC
 [185 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA/KENYA
Nairobi prepared to fund Gilgel Gibe III
   The Kenyan government’s need to import electricity from Ethiopia is so strong that it has just offered to fund 50% of the Ethiopian power station Gilgel Gibe III.  (...)  [277 words]   [$7]
KENYA
A newcomer in cash transport
   The fall confidence in the funds transport company G4S has created a gap in the market that another local security company was all too keen to fill.  (...)  [180 words]   [$7]
REUNION ISLAND
The Tram-Train, work for the lawyers!
   The finance for the Reunion Island Tram-Train will only be completed after the French regional elections in March 2010. Plenty of work is in perspective for the law firms.  (...)  [217 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
Daallo Airlines in serious trouble
   Daallo Airlines has begun to use flags of convenience in order to bypass an European Union ban.  (...)  [242 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
The captains of industry are back
   The old wealthy French-Mauritian families, after being destabilised by the sugar crisis for a while, once again have the upper hand through their land properties.  (...)  [431 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
The debt won’t go away
   The Seychelles government wants to reschedule its debt to private creditors. This would give it a breathing space until 2015. But afterwards it will still have to pay up.  (...)  [284 words]   [$7]

WHO'S WHO
DJIBOUTI
Saïd M. Del Waiss
   The head of Horn of Africa Logistics & Trading Group (HALT Group) in Djibouti, Saïd Mahamoud Del Waiss, recently joined the American company Maple Indian Ocean Resources Ltd (MIOR),  (...)  [122 words]   [$7]
FRANCE/ETHIOPIA
André Chaillol
   Lieutenant colonel André de Chaillol d’Abonald, who retired from the French army in September 2009, is to try his luck in a second career.  (...)  [234 words]   [$7]
UNITED STATES/SOMALIA
Mohamud Abdi Ahmed
   The founder and head of Shidaal Express, a company operating in the San Diego region in the USA, is being prosecuted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).  (...)  [129 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
Riaz Barday
   A new twist has just arisen in the old trading conflict that pits the company Islands Dreams Madagascar (IDM) owned by Jean-Pierre Condet and Gilbert Dailly, against the firm Habitat  (...)  [201 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
Tinah Randrianasolo
   Josette Rabariharivelo, the general manageress of Sofitrans, the hotel subsidiary of Air Madagascar, has lost her post and been replaced by Tinah Randrianasolo, who was formerly with  (...)  [150 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
Joaquim Chissano
   Even if his last initiative as a mediator to try and arrive at a government of national unity in Madagascar (the Maputo III agreement without the Head of the Transition Andry Rajoelina)  (...)  [85 words]   [$7]

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