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N°1264 - Paris,  20/06/2009    25/06/2009 - Madagascar - Tiko group’s lawyers go on the attack  24/06/2009 - Madagascar - TGV no longer backs his finance minister Francis Soler MADAGASCAR Editor in Chief Andry Rajoelina trying to keep upper hand After initially banking on a transition period of two years, the President of the High Authority for Transition (HAT), Andry Rajoelina known as TGV, gives the impression he wants to speed things up. In his letter to Jean-Paul Jainsky, the CEO of Sagem Securité SA, on 14 May to ask him to set up a system to secure the presidential election in Madagascar, TGV specified from the outset that “the Malagasy people will be called to vote in a not-too-distant future”. (...)   [698 words]  [$8.2] FREE ARTICLE London bars Mau Mau veterans   Mau Mau delegates will be able to be present at the trial they have brought against the UK government. The British embassy in Nairobi has refused to issue them with visas. (...)  [167 words]  [FREE] POLITICS & POWER MADAGASCAR Sylla has not said his last word yet    Jacques Sylla, who had been Prime Minister under Marc Ravalomanana and later Speaker of the National Assembly, has kept a low profile since the members of the High Authority for Transition (HAT) rejected his application for the post of Prime Minister for transition.  (...)  [229 words]  [$4.7] BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Antananarivo    The former Minister of Justice under President Marc Ravalomanana who was sacked in 2006, Jean-Jacques Rabénirina is a staunch supporter of the President of the High Authority for Transition (HAT), Andry Rajoelina. (...)  [105 words]  [$1.5] Djibouti    Ibrahim Saeed Ahmad Lootah, the head of the Lootah Group of Companies, has lost the rights the Djibouti government had given him to a plot of land in Doraleh. (...)  [122 words]  [$1.5] Maputo    Eduardo López Busquets, the Director-General of the Commissariat of the Zaragoza 2008 International Exhibition, will be the next Spanish Ambassador to Mozambique. (...)  [92 words]  [$1.5] Djibouti    The CEO of Djibouti Airlines, who also represents Felix Airways in Djibouti, has added another string to his bow. (...)  [56 words]  [$1.5] TANZANIA Mengi reaps what he sows    The five well-known businessmen that Reginald Mengi had accused of corruption have in turn accused their accuser of similar offences.  (...)  [263 words]  [$4.7] KENYA Politics troubles geothermal energy    A political quarrel between dignitaries within the presidential party has delayed the formation of the Geothermal Development Company board.  (...)  [224 words]  [$4.7] DJIBOUTI Popular singer against IOG    Last year the popular singer Nima Djama Miguil had her Canadian passport confiscated. This week, she has been thrown in jail on the basis of a minor charge.  (...)  [151 words]  [$4.7] ON THE LINE KENYA Ezekiel Mutua in the eye of a storm in Kenya    The former general secretary of the Kenya Union of Journalists (KUJ), Ezekiel Mutua, who since October 2007 has been the Director of Information of the respective ministry, is in the eye of a storm. (...)  [136 words]  [$1.5] MOZAMBIQUE Armando Guebuza didn’t go down well in Switzerland    President Armando Guebuza’s press conference in Geneva on 15 June didn’t go down very well. (...)  [111 words]  [$1.5] ETHIOPIA Donald Yamamoto is to leave Ethiopia in controversy    The United States Ambassador to Ethiopia, Donald Yamamoto, has always given the impression in public that he was, like his predecessors in this post, well disposed towards the EPRDF, the party in power in Addis Ababa. (...)  [197 words]  [$1.5] DJIBOUTI Military face to face in northern Djibouti    The Armed Forces Chief of Staff, General Zakaria Cheikh Ibrahim, strongly criticised the FRUD rebels in a speech that he made in the Somali language and was carried on the radio and TV on 11 June. (...)  [133 words]  [$1.5] ETHIOPIA A presidential advisor thrown in the street in Ethiopia    Luck was out for Assefa Kesito, a former Minister for Justice and special advisor to Ethiopian President Girma Woldegiorgis. (...)  [186 words]  [$1.5] ZIMBABWE Zanu-PF about to break apart    The two main clans in Zanu-PF are in open war ahead of the party conference to be held in December.  (...)  [201 words]  [$4.7] SEYCHELLES Ramadoss is not the king of the SCCI    Some members of the Seychelles Chamber of Commerce and Industry are waging passive resistance since the body elected its new chairman in April.  (...)  [321 words]  [$4.7] COMOROS ISLANDS Sarkozy writes to Ahmed Sambi    The French President has written to his opposite number in the Comoros to wish him a happy birthday and encourage him to dialogue with his political opponents.  (...)  [219 words]  [$4.7] KENYA London bars Mau Mau veterans    Mau Mau delegates will be able to be present at the trial they have brought against the UK government. The British embassy in Nairobi has refused to issue them with visas.  (...)  [167 words]  [FREE] BUSINESS CIRCLES KENYA A minister in Turkana Energy    The shareholders of Turkana Energy Inc, a small Vancouver-based company headed by Dale Wetherbee and Terence Jupp, will meet in mid-July to approve an offer made by the Canadian company  (...)  [248 words]  [$4.7] COMPANIES Renaissance Capital    KENYA   [148 words]  [$1.5] Solaris    MOZAMBIQUE   [70 words]  [$1.5] HSTMS    DJIBOUTI   [187 words]  [$1.5] Athi River Mining    KENYA   [135 words]  [$1.5] Nation Media Group    KENYA   [132 words]  [$1.5] Spar Group Ltd    MOZAMBIQUE   [139 words]  [$1.5] MEIL    MADAGASCAR   [139 words]  [$1.5] Nouvelles Presses de Madagascar    MADAGASCAR   [111 words]  [$1.5] CCM Construçoes    MOZAMBIQUE   [117 words]  [$1.5] EAST AFRICA AFD reacts to Chinese competition    The French development agency is being more careful in its choice of the projects it finances in Kenya in order to prevent all the contracts from going to Chinese firms.  (...)  [345 words]  [$4.7] KENYA G4S gets a new head    The managing director of the security company, subsidiary of the international group with the same name, has been replaced by his deputy.  (...)  [171 words]  [$4.7] KENYA Monsanto has problems    The plan by the Kenya Red Cross Society and Monsanto to grow GMOs for humanitarian purposes has hit problems.  (...)  [145 words]  [$4.7] MAURITIUS Megh Pillay goes back to the land    The former head of Air Mauritius did not last long as director of the Financial Services Commission. He has just surprised everyone by resigning.  (...)  [344 words]  [$4.7] MADAGASCAR Azad Hiridjee wants his revenge    Declared persona non grata in 2005, Azad Hiridjee returned to Antananarivo in April to regain his place in the Galana companies. The matter has now gone to Court.  (...)  [304 words]  [$4.7] MADAGASCAR Mamy Ravatomanga does it again    The CEO of the Sodiat group, which launched the daily newspaper La Verité last year, is now preparing a new newspaper project called Madagascar Matin.  (...)  [315 words]  [$4.7] WHO'S WHO MOZAMBIQUE Margarida Talapa    The Vice Chair of the Frelimo (governing party) group in the National Assembly, Margarida Talapa, is frequently cited in government circles as being one of the potential election campaign  (...)  [172 words]  [$4.7] UGANDA Patrick Bitature    Patrick Bitature, the head of the Uganda Green Computers Company (UGCC), could hardly hide his delight on 12 June.  (...)  [228 words]  [$4.7] MOZAMBIQUE Angelo Munguambe    The weekly Zambeze has a new editor, Angelo Munguambe. It also has a new publication manager, Alvarito de Carvalho.  (...)  [97 words]  [$4.7] SEYCHELLES/ACP Joe Morgan    On 5 June in Brussels, the Seychelles Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources, Joe Morgan, asked the European Union (EU) to come to the aid of the Indian Ocean countries  (...)  [228 words]  [$4.7] MAURITIUS Indra Sidaya    It should not be long before the Ambassador of Mauritius to Unesco in Paris, Indira Thacoor Sidaya, is recalled to Port-Louis.  (...)  [203 words]  [$4.7]

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