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Francis Soler
UGANDA Editor in Chief
Museveni preparing for a chaotic term
Ten months after being re-elected coupled with an overwhelming majority in Parliament for the National Resistance Movement (NRM, ruling party), President Yoweri Museveni is spending his time plugging the holes in his regime that open up one after another. The prospect of financial rewards for future oil development raises many desires, along with concerns about the management of these funds in a country already plagued by corruption. (...)   [693 words]   [$11,2]
KENYA
ICC prepares for indictments
  Recent initiatives of the International Criminal Court suggest that it is preparing to indict at least some of the six Kenyan leaders in its sights. (...)
POLITICS & POWER
ISRAEL/SOUTH SUDAN
Salva Kiir tests the water
   South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir’s visit to Israel on 20 December was not intended to sign any agreements, but rather to lay the groundwork for future cooperative relations between the two countries.  (...)  [169 words]   [$7]

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Antananarivo    The director of the East Africa / Indian Ocean division of the European Union External Action Service (EEAS), Jeremy Lester, received in Brussels, December 9, at his request the Malagasy Minister for Finance, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, in the sidelines of the Council of Ministers of African, Caribbean and Pacific States. (...)  [113 words]   [$2,1]
Hargeisa    President Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud known as Silanyo has appointed a third member of UDUB (opposition party) to a position of responsibility. (...)  [130 words]   [$2,1]
Antananarivo    Barely had Maminiaina Rasolondraibe recovered from his conflict with French businessman Alain Moyon over the takeover of Batimat and the tax reappraisal to which his company Funreco (a private pension fund) had been subjected in 2008, when he bounced into a new sector of activity. (...)  [118 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
TPLF sets up in Mekele
   Some members of the central committee of the ruling TPLF have cornered land near Mekele on which to build luxury villas. Here is our exclusive report.  (...)  [290 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI/FRANCE
The Socialists frighten IOG
   President Ismail Omar Guelleh's advisors are afraid that the French Socialists could be a stumbling block for the approval of the new defence agreement between France and Djibouti.  (...)  [174 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
Delicate timetable to elections
   The international community is sending one diplomatic mission after another to Antananarivo, all with the same aim: prepare the conditions for fair elections in 2012. But there is still much work to be done!  (...)  [199 words]   [$7]

ON THE LINE
SEYCHELLES
Two leaders for the Seychelles opposition
    After a legal battle lasting several weeks, David Pierre, the leader of the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM), the only opposition party to participate in the parliamentary election at the end of September, was admitted as a Member of the Seychelles Parliament last week. (...)  [175 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA/SOMALIA
Kenyan army does not want to be accountable to Amisom
    Although Kenya has decided to join the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom), its army is refusing to place itself under the orders of a Ugandan commander in charge of Amisom troops, General Fred Mugisha. (...)  [146 words]   [$2,1]
COMOROS ISLANDS
Comoros Supreme Court looking for pied-à-terre
    More than four months after their appointment, the judges of the Supreme Court have still not persuaded the Comoros government to find them a place to work. (...)  [132 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH SUDAN
An archbishop denounces corruption in Juba
    In the 6-page Christmas pastoral newsletter, dated 25 December and of which The Indian Ocean Newsletter has obtained a copy, the Archbishop of Juba, Paolino Lukudu Loro, provides an update on the situation in South Sudan. (...)  [108 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
Where is the comptroller of the State House in Kenya?
    The fate of Nelson Githinji is still uncertain. He was quietly dismissed from his post of Comptroller of the State House last month, following differences with the First Lady Lucy Kibaki, although this has never been officially confirmed by the Kenyan authorities. (...)  [186 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
Peter Kuguru’s series of catastrophes
   Not only is his business not doing well, Peter Kuguru is also challenged in his position as chairman of the Nairobi Water & Sewerage Company which depends on the Nairobi City Council.  (...)  [232 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
CUF leaders fight it out in Zanzibar
   The congress of the Civic United Front (CUF) to elect a new Secretary General is not planned until 2014. But the contenders for the post are already on a war footing.  (...)  [314 words]   [$7]
KENYA
ICC prepares for indictments
   Recent initiatives of the International Criminal Court suggest that it is preparing to indict at least some of the six Kenyan leaders in its sights.  (...)  [155 words]   FREE
MAURITIUS
TV channel for the Hindu community
   The directors of The Observer, a weekly defending the interests of the Hindu community in a rather sectarian way, want to start a private television channel.  (...)  [164 words]   [$7]
BUSINESS CIRCLES
KENYA
The MPs want AGOL’s skin
   Kenyan Members of Parliament are very angry against the African Gas & Oil Company Ltd (AGOL) headed by Ezra J.  (...)  [218 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
KENYA
Kenya Today
 [148 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
Sasfin Bank
 [85 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
Gaming International
 [134 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
Xfor Group
 [172 words]   [$2,1]
COMOROS ISLANDS
SFR
 [145 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
LeeX Network
 [142 words]   [$2,1]
REUNION ISLAND
Sorefi
 [104 words]   [$2,1]
TANZANIA
CH Bailey Plc
 [89 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
Healthcare Global Enterprises
 [129 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE/MAURITIUS
Collateral damage from Ambani affair
   The French firm Opportunité S.A. is cited in the international investigation on the circuit used by the Indian magnate Anil Ambani to invest in his country from Mauritius.  (...)  [274 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
The Patels in a fine mess
   After the Pakistani owned Sheba Steel & Mills, the Federal Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission is investigating the Abyssinia Integrated Steel owned by the Patel family.  (...)  [207 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
Sumbana in the hotels business
   What could be more natural for a firm owned by the Minister for Tourism Fernando Sumbana Junior than to invest in hotels? With the risk of a major conflict of interest!  (...)  [125 words]   [$7]
SOMALILAND
Hargeisa's gold prospector
   Gregory Bowes, the CEO of Mindesta Inc and principal shareholder in Nubian Gold Corporation, is a pioneer in gold exploration in Somaliland.  (...)  [139 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
A dignitary for each mining company
   The mining companies are on the look-out for Tanzanian former dignitaries, whom they hire to grease their relations with the Dar es Salaam government.  (...)  [322 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
Feizal Sidat to play on the Mambas
   Feizal Sidat had promised to beef up the marketing around the Mambas in his bid last July to be re-elected President of the Federaçao Moçambicana de Futebol. Did he keep his promise?  (...)  [246 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
The firm Ireko prepares its defence
   The construction subsidiary of the BAI group is fine tuning its arguments to respond to criticism about the delay in the work to refurbish Government House.  (...)  [153 words]   [$7]

WHO'S WHO
KENYA
Hassan Omar Hassan
   A member of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) is in the process of clearing his desk so he can go to join the campaign team of Prime Minister Raila Odinga for the  (...)  [173 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
Johanne Rasamoely
   The CEO of the Teknet Group (company specialised in ICT) and winner of the Young Entrepreneur award in 1996, Johanne Rasamoely was appointed on 14 December manageress of the Madagascar  (...)  [222 words]   [$7]
SOMALILAND
Mohamed Hassan Jidhif
   Reluctant to recognise the authority of Colonel Mohamed Kahin Ahmed, newly appointed National Security Chief, the head of the Somaliland army, General Nouh Ismael Tani was removed  (...)  [212 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
Mohamed Hassane Alfeine
   The new general director of the Autorité Nationale de Régulation des TIC (ANRTIC), Mohamed Hassane Alfeine, is a well known music lover, who has his own band where he plays the lute  (...)  [165 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
Gérard Botralahy
   The lawyer Gérard Botralahy went up from his home in Antseranana (north) to Antananarivo to become minister at the request of the Monima, the party of former Prime Minister Monja  (...)  [149 words]   [$7]

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