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Madagascar (02/12/2008)
A new French Ambassador, at last!
According to our sources, the former French Ambassador to Gabon, Jean-Marc Simon is in pole position to succeed Gildas Le Lidec in Madagascar. (...).
[142 words] [$1,5]

United States/Africa (27/11/2008)
Obama’s future Africa team
Witney Schneidman, who has been one of Barack Obama’s election campaign advisors and who is joint chairman of the African Advisory Group, is the leading contender to replace the Republican Jendayi Frazer in the post of Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. (...).
[213 words] [$1,5]

(30/10/2008)
Yves Jego writes to French MPs
The French Secretary of State for Overseas Territories, Yves Jégo, wrote personally to French MPs to ask them to be present at the National Assembly on 30 and 31 October for the debate on Article 63 of the Social Security Finance Bill 2009. (...).
[195 words] [$1,5]

(28/10/2008)
Kikwete guest of honour in Strasbourg
President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania will be the guest of honour at the third European Development Days (EDD) taking place in Strasbourg (France) from 15 to 17 November, in his capacity of exercising President of the African Union (AU). (...).
[130 words] [$1,5]

(13/10/2008)
Russian helicopters for the AU summit
The military office of the Malagasy presidency is currently considering a Russian service proposal to help it in the security for the fifty or so Heads of State expected at the African Union (AU) summit in Antananarivo in July 2009. (...).
[294 words] [$1,5]

(03/10/2008)
Barack Obama casts his net wide
With less than five weeks to go until voting day in the American presidential election, the Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama is well aware that he can’t ignore any group of voters. (...).
[221 words] [$1,5]

Reunion Island (01/10/2008)
Jackson Richardson goes into property
The former captain of the French handball team, Jackson Richardson, has gone into the property business on Reunion Island, where he was born. (...).
[118 words] [$1,5]

Tanzania (18/09/2008)
DWS and Mkono & Co at daggers drawn
The partnership between the UK law practice Denton Wilde Sapte (DWS) and the Tanzanian firm of lawyers Mkono & Co. (...).
[228 words] [$1,5]

Ethiopia (08/09/2008)
Two new hotels in 2010
The hotel company Sovereign Hospitality Holdings (SHH) owned by the Kuwait based M. (...).
[121 words] [$1,5]

Mauritius (01/09/2008)
Exit the general manager of La Sentinelle
Teddy Wan, the general manager of La Sentinelle, the press group which owns among other things the morning newspaper L'Express, was relieved of his functions by the group’s board, whose executive director is Jean Claude de l'Estrac. (...).
[195 words] [$1,5]

(27/11/2008)
Down with the airlines
"A certain number of airlines are making a mint out of the people who live in the overseas territories”. (...).
[172 words] [$1,5]

(26/11/2008)
A new security contract
Since the French firm Secopex CSA has not even begun to fulfil the contract it concluded in Paris at the beginning of May to provide maritime security services and training for the Somalian presidential guard (ION 1239), President Abdullahi Yusuf has turned to another private firm. (...).
[290 words] [$1,5]

(29/10/2008)
Triple terrorist attack in Hargeisa
This morning there were three simultaneous suicide attacks using vehicles packed with explosive in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, self-declared autonomous region in the north-west of Somalia. (...).
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(14/10/2008)
Air Mascareignes stranded
When the Reunion Island company Air Austral bought 49% of Catovair (a private company formed in Mauritius a year earlier by Ireland Blyth Ltd, IBL) and renamed it Air Mascareignes, its idea was to use it as the basis for flights from Mauritius to various parts of the region and beyond, as far as Bangkok. (...).
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(13/10/2008)
Caddell Constructions takes the pot
The American company Caddell Construction finally made the Overseas Building Operations (OBO), a bureau of the US State Department, give in. (...).
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(01/10/2008)
Constitutional conference in Brussels
The president of the Seychelles appeal court and former Speaker of Parliament in Victoria, Francis MacGregor, who is also one of the executives of the Seychelles People's Progressive Front (SPPF, ruling party) will be in centre stage at a conference on the Seychelles’ constitution, to be held at the European Parliament in Brussels on 7 October. (...).
[148 words] [$1,5]

Eritrea/Canada (19/09/2008)
Nevsun Resources caught in the middle
The Canadian mining company Nevsun Resources Ltd, currently developing the gold mining sit at Bisha (Eritrea), has been caught up in a diplomatic clash between Canada and Eritrea. (...).
[236 words] [$1,5]

Eritrea (15/09/2008)
Thomas Mountain’s misfortunes
The founder of the US Eritrean People's Friendship Association, which had defended Eritrea’s position against Ethiopia during the border conflict between the two countries, has just had to contend with the rigours of Asmara bureaucracy. (...).
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Ethiopia (03/09/2008)
Tigrayans at the army top
Since the EPRDF came to power in Addis Ababa in 1991, the Ethiopian army has been dominated by more seasoned Tigrayan officers who are members or sympathizers of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF, hard core of the governing coalition). (...).
[181 words] [$1,5]

Uganda/United Kingdom (01/09/2008)
A bribery affair
The Department for International Development (DFID) announced in Kampala last week that the United Kingdom would return $70,000 to the Ugandan government from the sum it had impounded following the arrest in London of the Danish head of a British company, Niels Tobiasen and Ananias Tumukunde, the science and technology advisor to President Yoweri Museveni, for money laundering and corruption. (...).
[284 words] [$1,5]

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