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previous Archive n° 1206  - 01/20/2007 next   Francis Soler KENYA Editor in Chief The top ten magnates in Mombasa A town where trading of all kind takes place, Mombasa harbours an impressive band of businessmen who are always keen to expand their political influence in this coastal province so that they can put the government of Nairobi to good account. (...)   [700 words]  [$8.2] FREE ARTICLE Going East from the South   Sanofi Aventis is to transfer part of its Dakar office to Johannesburg to create a platform from where it can expand into the Eastern and Central regions of Africa. (...)  [143 words]  [FREE] POLITICS & POWER SUDAN The rebel’s guide in Paris    During his visit to France this week, the chairman of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM, main component in the Darfur rebel movement) Abdelwahid Mohammed Ahmed Al-Nour was taken under the wing of a member of the political executive of the Union pour la Démocractie Française (UDF), the centrist party of presidential candidate François Bayrou.  (...)  [167 words]  [$4.7] BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Maputo    The former governor of the Banco de Moçambique (central bank), who was replaced in July 2006 by his number two, Ernesto Goveia Gove, has now become a financial consultant. (...)  [98 words]  [$1.5] Zanzibar Town    The former President of Zanzibar Salmin Amour is high on the list of chronic bad payer clients of the Zanzibar Electricity Company (ZECO). (...)  [127 words]  [$1.5] Antananarivo    The director general of the Economic Development Board of Madagascar (EDBM), the Mauritian Prega Ramsamy who had been confirmed in this post at the end of December 2006, does not like the French title of his post. (...)  [77 words]  [$1.5] Dar es-Salaam    President Jakaya Kikwete has three new economic advisors. (...)  [68 words]  [$1.5] SOMALIA America’s multiple visions    Washington is looking for an African Muslim leader to head the peace-keeping operation in Somalia.  (...)  [429 words]  [FREE] MAURITIUS Xavier Duval’s new advisor    After hiring the former Miss Mauritius, Isabelle Antoo and the journalist Jugdish Joypaul, the Minister for Tourism has taken a new public relations advisor.  (...)  [196 words]  [$4.7] COMOROS ISLANDS External mediators coming back    The conflict of competency between the President of the Union and those of the autonomous islands is worrying members of the international community in Moroni.  (...)  [114 words]  [$4.7] ON THE LINE SEYCHELLES    A Czech exiled in the Seychelles, Rasdovan Krejcir, was briefly arrested in Victoria this week for carrying arms. (...)  [152 words]  [$1.5] ZIMBABWE    Robert Mugabe has upset all of the pretenders to his succession by unsuccessfully trying to pass a resolution during the ZANU-PF (governing party) convention last month. (...)  [258 words]  [$1.5] SOMALIA    The Somalian Deputy Minister of Defence Salad Ali Jelle is chairman of the security committee set up in Mogadishu last week by Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi. (...)  [185 words]  [$1.5] MADAGASCAR    Sandy Rajaosafara, director of the economic observatory of the shrimps sector in Madagascar, is to go back to Paris on 17 February after living in his country since 2002. (...)  [109 words]  [$1.5] MADAGASCAR    Zaza Ramandimbiarison, the former Malagasy Deputy Prime Minister, will not be going back to Antananarivo, as his former staff had hoped. (...)  [92 words]  [$1.5] KENYA Michuki's card for the elections    Two ministers want a lawyer who is close to them to be appointed chairman of the Electoral Commission of Kenya to replace Samuel Kivuitu.  (...)  [289 words]  [$4.7] KENYA Lending Ethiopia a hand in Somalia    The Kenyan Air Force and military intelligence services have provided back up for the Ethiopian military offensive against the militia of the Islamic Courts in the south of Somalia.  (...)  [287 words]  [$4.7] UGANDA Museveni doesn’t trust his MPs    President Yoweri Museveni has sent military intelligence agents to spy on certain Members of Parliament of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) who are considered as dissident.  (...)  [313 words]  [$4.7] AFRICA/PORTUGAL Lisbon’s three African policies    The somewhat Europe-oriented stance of Portuguese Prime Minister José Socrates on African matters is shared with the former Minister for Foreign Affairs and current Ambassador to Paris, Antonio Monteiro and by the President of the European Commission, Durao Barroso.  (...)  [347 words]  [$4.7] AFRICA/PORTUGAL Intelligence services target former colonies    Over the course of their transformations, the Portuguese external intelligence services have always kept Africa in their line of sight.  (...)  [277 words]  [$4.7] BUSINESS CIRCLES MADAGASCAR Zimbabweans in sugar    Just as the Madagascan national sugar company Sirama is undergoing a complete restructuring, a Zimbabwean company wants to invest in growing sugar in Madagascar in order to produce  (...)  [212 words]  [$4.7] COMPANIES Geoambiente    MOZAMBIQUE   [149 words]  [$1.5] L’Eden    MADAGASCAR   [104 words]  [$1.5] New Lachaussée    TANZANIA   [141 words]  [$1.5] Orion Group    COMOROS ISLANDS   [223 words]  [$1.5] Dodsal    TANZANIA   [84 words]  [$1.5] AGSC    KENYA   [166 words]  [$1.5] BMMI    DJIBOUTI   [86 words]  [$1.5] Franklin Resources    SOUTH AFRICA   [51 words]  [$1.5] Oikos    PORTUGAL/AFRICA   [130 words]  [$1.5] AMI    PORTUGAL/AFRICA   [80 words]  [$1.5] Fundação Portugal-África    PORTUGAL/AFRICA   [83 words]  [$1.5] MADAGASCAR Media landscape in movement    Two young Madagascan businessmen have beefed up their respective press groups by acquiring two local radio and television stations.  (...)  [263 words]  [$4.7] KENYA Hay Group restructures the NBK    A South African consultancy, through its local partner, is restructuring the National Bank of Kenya, ahead of its possible acquisition by the South African Standard Bank.  (...)  [203 words]  [$4.7] KENYA The Michuki family does well in tea    The Minister of Security’s family firm is about to be authorised to purchase tea directly from farmers and export it to the United States.  (...)  [195 words]  [$4.7] MOZAMBIQUE Australians in precious metals    An Australian company has acquired a firm with a permit to explore for precious metals in Mozambique. It is soon to be listed on the AIM in London.  (...)  [234 words]  [$4.7] MAURITIUS A group in full expansion    The present political situation is very favourable to the expansion of the BAI group, whose two executives are both related to the Mauritian Deputy Prime Minister.  (...)  [274 words]  [$4.7] SUDAN A conference's sponsors    A dozen international corporations are sponsoring, at varying degrees, the Second Sudan Development Summit to be held in Khartoum from 19 to 21 March.  (...)  [199 words]  [$4.7] SOUTH AFRICA Going East from the South    Sanofi Aventis is to transfer part of its Dakar office to Johannesburg to create a platform from where it can expand into the Eastern and Central regions of Africa.  (...)  [143 words]  [FREE] lawyers Portuguese law firms attracted by oil    Many Portuguese lawyers, such as the firm Franco Caiado Guerreiro which has just created a department specialising in Angola, are attracted to Portuguese-speaking African countrie  (...)  [345 words]  [$4.7] Lobbying From the old guard to ambitious new blood    In its forties, the “new generation” of Portuguese Africa specialists has come mainly from the universities and NGOs, some of which have ties to religious congregations.  (...)  [339 words]  [$4.7] Banking Handhold on African finance    The subsidiaries of Portuguese banks cannot be avoided in the banking system in Portuguese-speaking African countries. Millenium/BCP (formerly Banco Comercial Portugues) hence controls  (...)  [359 words]  [$4.7] construction At home in the game reserve    Portuguese construction companies use the former colonies as their game reserve to add punch to their sales figures. The most lucrative target is Angola, where three of the leading  (...)  [312 words]  [$4.7] PORTUGAL/AFRICA Fernando Jorge de Castro Teixeira Cardoso    Fernando Jorge de Castro Teixeira Cardoso has coordinated since 1991 the African programme of the Estudos Estratégicos e Internacionais (IEEI), a study centre on international affairs  (...)  [115 words]  [$1.5] PORTUGAL/AFRICA Patricia Ferreira    Patricia Ferreira is in charge of African issues at the Instituto Portugues de Relaçoes Internacionais e Segurança (IPRIS), a think-tank specialised in energy security headed by João  (...)  [68 words]  [$1.5] PORTUGAL/AFRICA Manuela Franco    Manuela Franco, in charge of African issues at the Instituto Português de Relaçaoes Internacionais (IPRI), part of the Universidade de Lisboa, has a varied career behind her.  (...)  [179 words]  [$1.5] PORTUGAL/AFRICA Jochen Oppenheimer    Jochen Oppenheimer, even though he is German, is chairman of the Centro de Estudos sobre África e do Desenvolvimento (CEsA) which is part of the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão  (...)  [139 words]  [$1.5] AFRICA/PORTUGAL Antonio Monteiro    Antonio Monteiro heads “Think” Africa. He is the current Ambassador to France, former Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs and former Portugal representative to the United Nati  (...)  [133 words]  [$1.5] WHO'S WHO FRANCE/AFRICA Patrick Lucas    The diary of the chairman of the Africa committee of the French employers' federation Medef International, who is moreover the CEO of the insurance company Gras Savoye, is chock-a  (...)  [128 words]  [$4.7] EAST AFRICA Mahmoud Hashish    The CEO of MTC-Vodafone in Barhein has just been appointed deputy chairman of Celtel International in charge of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Madagascar.  (...)  [93 words]  [$4.7] DJIBOUTI Alain Romani    The son of the former paymaster of the late President Hassan Gouled Aptidon is the partner-manager in Société Djiboutienne d'Exploitation et de Gestion Hôtelière.  (...)  [172 words]  [$4.7] BELGIUM/MAURITIUS Pietro Allatta    The former manager of Silvio Proto, the goalkeeper of the Belgian football club Royal Sporting Club d’Anderlecht (RSCA), is planning to make set up his business base in Mauritius.  (...)  [212 words]  [$4.7] SOMALIA Salad Ali Jelle    The Somalian deputy minister of defence who chairs the security committee created in Mogadishu last week (see p. 2) has not spent much of his youth at school, apart from Coranic School  (...)  [185 words]  [$4.7] MADAGASCAR Eleonore Johasy    The person appointed to be the new executive director of the preparatory committee of the Agence Nationale pour la Régulation de l’E gouvernance (ANRE) is a former public relations  (...)  [123 words]  [$4.7] PORTUGAL/AFRICA Nuno Mello Bello    Nuno Mello Bello, former Portugal Consul to Montreal, has headed the Africa department of the Portuguese Ministry for Foreign Affairs since the middle of December 2006.  (...)  [63 words]  [$1.5] PORTUGAL/AFRICA Joao Gomes Cravinho    Joao Gomes Cravinho, the Portuguese Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, aged 41, is the son of a well-known socialist leader from Angola.  (...)  [111 words]  [$1.5] PORTUGAL/AFRICA Joaquim Chito Rodriguez    Joaquim Chito Rodriguez retired general and former head of the Divisao de Informaçao Militar (DIMIL), better known under its previous name of DINFO, published a book in 2006 on the  (...)  [71 words]  [$1.5] SOUTH AFRICA Paulo Couto Barbosa    One of the most important Portuguese diplomatic posts on the African continent, namely the embassy in South Africa, has been headed since October 2003 by Paulo Couto Barbosa.  (...)  [134 words]  [$1.5] AFRICA José Franco Caiado    At 60 José Franco Caiado is one of the longest-established lawyers to work with the African continent from Lisbon.  (...)  [127 words]  [$1.5] MOZAMBIQUE Augusto Macedo Pinto    The chairman of the board of the Associação Portugal Moçambique, an association for the promotion of Mozambique in Portugal, is a lawyer operating both in Portugal (Porto) and Mozambique  (...)  [95 words]  [$1.5] MOZAMBIQUE Jorge Ferro Ribeiro    The rich businessman from Macao, Stanley Ho, has joined forces with his agent in Portugal, Jorge Ferro Ribeiro, to create Geocapital, a company capitalised at 10 million euros.  (...)  [125 words]  [$1.5] ANGOLA Carlos Bayan Fereira    Carlos Bayan Fereira, the international director of the former Portuguese national oil company Galp, is now in charge of restructuring the firm’s African activity.  (...)  [118 words]  [$1.5] PORTUGAL Rai Amirali Bhanji    The owner of Multipore, a firm specialising in importing medical equipment into Portugal, Rai Amirali Bhanji is also the chairman of the Ismaelian community in the Portuguese-speaking  (...)  [98 words]  [$1.5]   previous Archive n° 1206  - 01/20/2007 next

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