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Francis Soler
SUDAN/SOUTH SUDAN Editor in Chief
Two countries at war in all but name
In keeping with its interest in preventing a conflict between the two Sudans before its presidential election in November, the United States has been trying for months to temper President Salva Kiir of South Sudan while at the same time being careful with his counterpart Omar al Bashir in the North. (...)   [756 words]   [$11,2]
DJIBOUTI
Dawaleh family’s good deals
  The family of the finance minister Ilyas Moussa Dawaleh has no reason to complain of his job in government. (...)
POLITICS & POWER
KENYA
Odinga looking for a running mate
   The advisors of Prime Minister Raila Odinga are working on the choice of a new running mate for their mentor for the presidential election in late 2012 or early 2013.  (...)  [265 words]   [$7]

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Antananarivo    Since we published our article entitled This sulphur business smells fishy (ION 1330) which analysed the way the decree signed on 22 March by the Minister for Oil Products Bernard Roger Marcel imposing a reduction in the level of sulphur in diesel oil, works to the advantage of the companies Galana and Jovenna and runs against the interests of Vitol and Total, the Frenchman Eric Lepine, who has sat on the Jovenna board for many years, denies being involved in the decision. (...)  [135 words]   [$2,1]
Port Louis    The Mauritian Militant Socialist Movement (MSM, opposition) of Anerood and Pravind Jugnauth, wants to change its image a little by recruiting more Creoles. (...)  [119 words]   [$2,1]
Nairobi    The Kenyan Greenbelt Movement has been in death throes and deep financial problems since the death last year of its leader Wangari Maathai, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. (...)  [145 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
Naina, the discreet press boss
   The businessman Naina Andriantsitohaina has built up quite a tidy little press group over the years. All that was left was to launch a TV station!  (...)  [288 words]   [$7]
KENYA
Githae and Waweru could compete
   Two allies of President Mwai Kibaki, Njeru Githae and Michael Waweru, could run for the same post of governor in the next general election.  (...)  [179 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
A radio station to protect rosewood
   A vanilla exporter wants to combat illegal cutting of rosewood in his own way, by using his radio station as a propaganda weapon to defend the environment.  (...)  [136 words]   [$7]

ON THE LINE
MAURITIUS
Brothers in strife at the Grande Loge de Maurice
    The internal warfare that has been waging within the Grande Loge national française (GNLF) ever since François Stifani has been holding onto his post of Grandmaster, is making waves at the Grande Loge de Maurice. (...)  [161 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
TGV buys plot in smart suburb of Antananarivo
    A growing number of Madagascan businessmen and celebrities are being attracted to the Ambohibao-Antehiroka area, a smart suburb of Antananarivo. (...)  [169 words]   [$2,1]
COMOROS ISLANDS
A thoroughly intransigent interior minister in the Comoros
    The Minister of the Interior and Information Hamada Abdallah, 60, who has just dismissed the publication manager of the government organ Al Watwan because he had wandered too far from “the government editorial line”, has shown a certain tendency for harshness throughout his career. (...)  [169 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
New lobbyist for Mauritius in the United States
    The Port Louis government has just hired a new lobbyist in the United States with the task of blowing its trumpet with the American authorities. (...)  [126 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
KBC head on the way out in Kenya
    The Kenyan Minister for Information and Communication Samuel Poghisio holds the managing director of the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) Waithaka Waihenya responsible for all the public TV station’s woes. (...)  [107 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
Family quarrel at the Kibakis
   Lucy Kibaki, who is rarely seen in public these days, wants to reappear before the end of her husband’s mandate. But her family is against it.  (...)  [212 words]   [$7]
SOMALILAND
Troubled birth of a police act
   Two competing bills to regulate the police have been on the table until this week - one from a local NGO backed by the UN and the other emanating from the police itself.  (...)  [252 words]   [$7]
UGANDA/SUDAN
Museveni in full tilt against Bashir
   Despite official denials, Kampala is playing the card of backing the anti-Khartoum rebels of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF).  (...)  [193 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
A new party in gestation
   The hand of the former minister of the interior Yacin Elmi Bouh can be seen in the group of dissidents which is planning to form a political party and has just launched a magazine.  (...)  [210 words]   [$7]
BUSINESS CIRCLES
MOZAMBIQUE
N'naite Chissano in the oil sector
   The son of former President Joaquim Chissano is still on the lookout for good deals. Since the end of March, N’naite Chissano has been the sole administrator of a new public limited  (...)  [237 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
MADAGASCAR
GEM BioFuels Plc
 [124 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI
Harmonica Services
 [86 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
Imperial Tobacco
 [111 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
Air Mauritius
 [138 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
African Century Moçambique
 [94 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
Express Automation Ltd
 [98 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
Blast Communications
 [101 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
Abengoa CSP
 [151 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
Kungana Lda
 [118 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
Southey Mozambique
 [80 words]   [$2,1]
COMOROS ISLANDS
Jean-Marc Heintz claims a victim
   The tussle between Comores Aviation owned by Jean-Marc Heintz and the Moroni civil aviation authority has made a collateral victim: the managing director of Anacm.  (...)  [252 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
Gilgel Gibe I underachieving
   Whereas work on the Gilgel Gibe III electric power station is due to be completed this year, the Gilgel Gibe I dam is silting up dangerously.  (...)  [237 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
IFC sponsors Eaton Towers
   The British firm ETW Africa Holdings is to launch an activity of operating antennas on behalf of telecoms operators in Kampala – through help from the IFC.  (...)  [147 words]   [$7]
KENYA
Maxwell Stamp Plc is back
   The British economic and finance consulting company Maxwell Stamp is to open up in Nairobi again. It was previously there during the 1970s.  (...)  [176 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
Mitterrand’s son visits the oil fields
   Jean-Christophe Mitterrand arrived in Antananarivo on April 23d together with a Canadian Chinese-Indonesian businessman in order to visit the oil searching blocks.  (...)  [301 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
Oil factory closes its doors
   The Sudanese Ashraf Said Ahmed Hussein has shut his oil factory at Bahar Dar, just as the Saudi tycoon Mohamed Hussein Al Amoudi is planning to build one of his own.  (...)  [165 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
Dawaleh family’s good deals
   The family of the finance minister Ilyas Moussa Dawaleh has no reason to complain of his job in government.  (...)  [171 words]   FREE

WHO'S WHO
LEBANON/MOZAMBIQUE
Samer Said Khoury
   The Palestinian-born Lebanese businessman Samer Said Khoury, is turning his attention to the public construction and civil engineering sectors in Mozambique.  (...)  [163 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
John William Kachamila
   The former minister for mining and subsequently for the environment, turned businessman John William Kachamila, is turning his attention to a new sector of activity.  (...)  [200 words]   [$7]
REUNION ISLAND
Isabelle Ah-Sing
   Times are good for Isabelle Ah-Sing. She has just become the brand new executive vice president of Banque de la Réunion, making her the first woman from Reunion Island to reach such  (...)  [127 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR/ALGERIA
Marcel Bernard
   The highly discreet Malagasy Minister for Oil Products, Marcel Bernard, part of the sphere of influence of former President Albert Zafy, is a member of a rather original community  (...)  [224 words]   [$7]
EUROPEAN UNION/ACP
Jean-Erick Romagne
   Following the Who’s Who item on the Mauritian Jyoti Jeetun (ION 1328) announcing her appointment to the head of the three person steering group to run the Brussels based Centre for  (...)  [123 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
Omar Osman Rabeh
   A former Somali militant nationalist and staunch opponent of the Djibouti regime that expelled him in 1983, Omar Osman Rabeh, 66, returned to Djibouti several years ago to back President  (...)  [77 words]   [FREE]

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