N°1356 - Paris,  17/05/2013
 
 23/05/2013 - MADAGASCAR - François Goldblatt grins and bears it
 22/05/2013 - FRANCE/ETHIOPIA - Hollande to be Western star in Addis Ababa
Francis Soler
HORN OF AFRICA Editor in Chief
British business’s new frontier
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s reason for holding an international conference on Somalia in London on 7 May, along with an associated business forum the following day, was not only so he could claim success in diplomacy. He mainly wanted to pave the way for his country’s companies to be well placed to win the future reconstruction contracts, and so not leave the field open to the Turkish companies that are already very active in the Horn of Africa (ION 1351). (...)   [723 words]  
DJIBOUTI
IOG not yet discussing with opposition in Djibouti
  The BBC’s interview with President Ismail Omar Guelleh (IOG) in the Somali language on 8 May gave a glimmer of hope that negotiations with the opposition would open soon. (...)
POLITICS & POWER
KENYA
The generals don’t want Omamo
   Certain Kenyan military leaders are unhappy with the appointment of Raychelle Omamo as defence minister. According to a well-placed military source, these senior officers have already made their disapproval known to the General Chief of Staff, General Julius Karangi.  (...)  [167 words]  

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Djibouti    The Ethiopian-born Briton Dawit Wolde-Michael Gebre-ab is currently in the good books of President Ismail Omar Guelleh (IOG). (...)  [131 words]  
Maputo    ?The Italian-born Mozambican, Emiliano Finocchi, deputy director general of prefabricated house construction company Tedeco Lda, is continuing his expansion in the mining sector (ION 1353). (...)  [73 words]  
Antananarivo    ?Several years after South Korean company Daewoo Logistics had difficulties in Madagascar, a delegation from its country went to test the water in Antananarivo. (...)  [133 words]  
COMOROS ISLANDS
A Vice President in the firing line
   Rivalry between Vice President Fouad Mohadji and President Ikililou Dhoinine’s team would seem to have reached breaking point.  (...)  [278 words]  
MAYOTTE ISLAND
Strong pressure on Judge Karki
   Paris would seem to have approved the strange way the Court of the First Instance operates in Mamoudzou. It is Judge Hakim Karki who will have to pay the price.  (...)  [252 words]  
DJIBOUTI/JAPAN
President IOG backs Rachad Farah
   President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh has asked Japan to vote for Rachad Farah to be the next head of Unseco. However, he could not stop France from backing Irina Bokova.  (...)  [214 words]  

ON THE LINE
DJIBOUTI
IOG not yet discussing with opposition in Djibouti
    The BBC’s interview with President Ismail Omar Guelleh (IOG) in the Somali language on 8 May gave a glimmer of hope that negotiations with the opposition would open soon. (...)  [273 words]   FREE
KENYA
Mutula Kilonzo’s offspring vie for his seat in Kenya
    The two eldest children of Mutula Kilonzo, who died on 27 April shortly after he was elected on 4 March, are planning to run for their late father’s seat. (...)  [154 words]  
MOZAMBIQUE
Alcinda Abreu’s family business in Mozambique
    The two members of the Mamadhusen family in partnership with the Minister for the Environment, Alcinda Abreu, in Grupo Videre since 2011, are no strangers to her (ION 1355). (...)  [99 words]  
COMOROS ISLANDS
A former Indian ambassador canvasses the Comoros Islands
    The former Indian ambassador, Vidya Bhushan Soni, stopped in the Comoros Islands on his way to the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town (South Africa). (...)  [96 words]  
MADAGASCAR
TGV backtracks a little on Madagascar
    President Andry Rajoelina known as TGV tried earlier this week to pass an ordinance that will define the conditions to his advantage for leaving his post, so that he can run in the presidential election in late July. (...)  [94 words]  
ETHIOPIA
Upsetting the apple-cart
   The arrest of several Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority (ERCA) officials and their businessmen allies is indicative of political struggles about corruption.  (...)  [301 words]  
ETHIOPIA
Armed services are spendthrift
   The army and the intelligence services account for the lion’s share of the 3.5 billion birrs of unjustified expenditure spotted by the Auditor General, Gemechu Dubisso.  (...)  [306 words]  
UGANDA
Museveni dropped by one of his own
   General Dadid Sejusa (Tinyefuza), Yoweri Museveni’s comrade in arms and like him an ethnic Hima, has been in a rebellious mood the last few weeks.  (...)  [310 words]  
BUSINESS CIRCLES
SOUTH SUDAN
DSK and his friends create a bank
   The former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, whose political career in France came to a sudden end in 2011 when he was accused of a sexual attack  (...)  [180 words]  

COMPANIES
MOZAMBIQUE
Leao Security
 [112 words]  
DJIBOUTI
Standard Bank
 [88 words]  
DJIBOUTI
Independent Construction Co
 [107 words]  
EAST AFRICA
AAR Healthcare
 [140 words]  
KENYA
Actis Africa Real Estate
 [188 words]  
DJIBOUTI
Fabtech Group
 [139 words]  
SOMALIA
Total
 [145 words]  
SEYCHELLES
Trop-X
 [214 words]  
MAURITIUS
Totem takes a big beating
   The public relations firm Totem, founded in 2000 by Alexandra Schaub is going through a terrible internal crisis and will have to reorient its activities to survive.  (...)  [209 words]  
DJIBOUTI
TKE International gets the green light
   A small American company is going into renewable energy by means of a joint venture with the Djibouti government and a local private investor.  (...)  [209 words]  
KENYA
Refinery’s last chance
   A crisis meeting is to be held next week to discuss the future of Kenya Petroleum Refineries (KPR), with its possible closure on the agenda.  (...)  [221 words]  
MADAGASCAR
MCB makes life difficult for Fuelstock
   Negotiations were very tough between Fuelstock Madagascar and the Malagasy branch of Mauritius Commercial Bank (MCB) which wanted guarantees its loans would be repaid.  (...)  [224 words]  
SEYCHELLES
Nation concentrates on advertising
   Pressure from management influenced by advertising considerations has pushed journalists to flee the government newspaper Seychelles Nation.  (...)  [221 words]  
COMOROS ISLANDS
Fishing complex is taking its time
   Progress on setting up a semi-industrial fishing complex on the island of Ngazidja is very slow. It should have been handed over in April, but this deadline has been missed.  (...)  [244 words]  
MOZAMBIQUE
IFC to finance P&O Maritime
   The DP World subsidiary that since 2012 has run maritime services for Maputo Port Development Co. will finance its new equipment through a loan from the IFC.  (...)  [142 words]  

WHO'S WHO
KENYA/UNITED NATIONS
Macharia Kamau
   Kenya’s permanent representative to the United Nations in New York, Macharia Kamau, could well have to pay the price for being overzealous.  (...)  [173 words]  
DJIBOUTI
Nyckoss Tommy Tayoro
   The Ivorian Nyckoss Tommy Tayoro created a new company in Djibouti at the end of last month, called Star Management Djibouti to operate in the events organising sector.  (...)  [125 words]  
MADAGASCAR
Nirina Rakotomanantsoa
   A businessman who hails from Fianarantsoa and specialising in the construction industry via the company Touch Tone Madagascar (which also operates in the institutional PR sector),  (...)  [217 words]  
MAURITIUS/RWANDA
Rama Sithanen
   The Rwanda Development Board (RDB), created in 2008 by the merger of seven government agencies in charge of promoting investment in African countries, now has a new chairman.  (...)  [197 words]  
KENYA
Kalonzo Musyoka
   The unsuccessful candidate for vice president as Raila Odinga’s running mate, Kalonzo Musyoka has finally abandoned the idea of finding a way to obtain a seat in parliament.  (...)  [209 words]  


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