17/12/2005 The Indian Ocean Newsletter N°1161

COMOROS ISLANDS

Business in the country of fighting sultans

In the land of the fighting sultans, a small class of entrepreneurs is getting busy in the construction industry, import (equipment and consumer goods), export (cash crops) and related activity (freight transit, insurance). The large family businesses which have dominated the archipelago for many long years (Etablissements Ahmed Abdallah, Mohamed Ahmed and Kalfane) have imploded after the death of their founders, each of their heirs setting up his own company. (...)   [719 words]   [€8]
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