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Francis Soler
MADAGASCAR Editor in Chief
Rajoelina is legitimized but penniless
Trip to Paris in early December to meet with President Nicolas Sarkozy, an invitation last weekend to attend the anniversary of the ANC in South Africa along with Heads of State: the President of the High Authority for Transition (HAT), Andry Rajoelina known as TGV is gradually making his return into the community of nations after being considered beyond the pale for two and a half years. (...)   [723 words]   [$11,2]
DJIBOUTI
IOG wants to be in control
  Security during the regional elections is too important a matter for President Ismail Omar Guelleh to leave to his minister for home affairs. (...)
POLITICS & POWER
MAURITIUS
Lobbying for Madagascar
   According to a ministerial source in Port Louis, the Mauritian government has invited a representative of Madagascar to attend the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) summit between Mauritius and the United States, to be held on 15 to 17 January.  (...)  [187 words]   [$7]

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Juba    The London based Eastern Africa Association (EAA), which gathers representatives of companies operating in Eastern Africa, has deferred the mission it had planned to send to South Sudan in March. (...)  [152 words]   [$2,1]
Nairobi    The members of the Communication Workers Union of Kenya (COWU-K) are impatient for the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) about the six Kenyan leaders who risk being prosecuted for their respective roles in the post-election clashes in 2008. (...)  [120 words]   [$2,1]
Port Louis    The former Mauritian Ambassador in Brussels and current advisor to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sutiawan Gunessee, will be the head honcho of a brand new institution, Global Africa Hub. (...)  [110 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI
IOG wants to be in control
   Security during the regional elections is too important a matter for President Ismail Omar Guelleh to leave to his minister for home affairs.  (...)  [224 words]   FREE
KENYA
A book that terrifies Odinga’s friends
   Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s advisors are trying by all possible ways to find out what will be contained in a book that one of their former colleagues is planning to publish.  (...)  [225 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
The USA distrusts these generals
   Two generals that President Yoweri Museveni has just redeployed were not appreciated by the United States, which plays a leading role in the fight against the LRA.  (...)  [208 words]   [$7]

ON THE LINE
SOMALIA
Satellite images reveal Somalian piracy boom
   . The British think tank Chatham House published a report with a very explicit title on 12 January: (...)  [205 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI/SOMALIA
Djibouti President wants to secure his troops in Somalia
   . President Ismail Omar Guelleh (IOG) of Djibouti took all possible precautions before sending a second contingent of 200 Djibouti soldiers to Somalia, to comply with the wishes of Amisom and the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Mogadishu. (...)  [218 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI
The sponsors of independent candidates in Djibouti election
   . The level of abstention will be the most significant element in the January 20 local elections, as it is boycotted by the opposition and will pit candidates from the governing UMP coalition against freelancers. (...)  [209 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
Mengistu Haile Mariam’s book is no success
   ?. Published last month, but only became available in the United States a few days ago, the memoires of the former Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam who has been living in exile in Zimbabwe for two decades, is not doing at all well among the Ethiopian Diaspora. (...)  [121 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
Odinga will not have this advisor
   Hassan Omar Hassan will not be on Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s campaign team after he leaves the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.  (...)  [136 words]   [$7]
UNITED STATES/SOMALIA
Farole gets a lobbyist in the USA
   The President of Puntland has hired a new American lobbyist on security and counter-piracy issues.  (...)  [301 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA/SOMALILAND
Silanyo under Meles’s influence
   President Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud has appointed a young officer trained in an Ethiopian military academy to head the intelligence services.  (...)  [236 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
Andry Rajoelina versus Omer Beriziky
   The disagreements between President Andry Rajoelina and Prime Minister Omer Beriziky continue to accumulate.  (...)  [169 words]   [$7]
BUSINESS CIRCLES
KENYA
Essar wants protection for KPRL
   The oil distribution companies have gone to war against the proposals by Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd (KPRL), owned in equal shares by the Kenyan State and the Indian firm Essar  (...)  [271 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
DJIBOUTI
Stereau SAS
 [130 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
Mercantile Exchange of Madagascar
 [155 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
TM AM Construction Group Africa
 [203 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
Griffin Legal Kenya
 [144 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
Madagascar Future Entreprises
 [125 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
United Basalt Products
 [99 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
Getma Mozambique
 [69 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
Visabeira
 [83 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
Allana Potash
 [85 words]   [$2,1]
COMOROS ISLANDS
Problems for inter-island traffic
   The ban on flights by aircraft owned by the two inter-island airlines has produced a vacuum that the small charter firm Inter Iles Air wants to fill.  (...)  [267 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
A family conflict at BAI
   British American Investment’s CEO Saleem Beebeejaun would no longer seem to suit the requirements of the group’s majority shareholder, his uncle Dawood Rawat.  (...)  [162 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
Access Capital puts cat among the pigeons
   A report by the Ethiopian company Access Capital goes against the government line and calls for the privatisation of several State companies.  (...)  [151 words]   [$7]
KENYA
Rift Valley Railways split by politics
   Rift Valley Railways (RVR) CEO Brown Odengo’s political affinity to Prime Minister Raila Odinga has attracted the wrath of some of the company’s shareholders.  (...)  [203 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
State wants to make Galana pay
   In spite of insisting strongly, the State representative at the Galana refinery terminal did not obtain the increased dividends she was asking for.  (...)  [244 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
Karuturi’s woes have begun
   The Ethiopian ministry of agriculture is against the firm Karuturi’s plan to install thousands of Indian farmers in land it has leased in the Gambela region.  (...)  [234 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
Ylias Akbaraly turns to publishing
   The time is right to buy companies in debt. Some time ago, Ylias Akbaraly followed up his purchase of two hotels by acquiring a publishing company in trouble.  (...)  [139 words]   [$7]

WHO'S WHO
FRANCE/INDIAN OCEAN
Philippe Péjo
   The France – Madagascar and Indian Ocean parliamentary friendship group of the French Senate is temporarily without a chairman. The reason is that Jean Faure is no longer a Senato  (...)  [175 words]   [$7]
KENYA
Stella Kilonzo
   The ever-present CEO of the Capital Markets Authority (CMA), Stella Kilonzo, who has been officially in the post since 2008 after seven months on an interim basis, has provoked the  (...)  [203 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
Robert Stravens
   The CEO of the Public Utilities Company (PUC, State-owned), Robert Stravens has just been sacked after being in the post for less than a year.  (...)  [183 words]   [$7]
ISRAEL/SOUTH SUDAN
Haim Koren
   The ambassador that the Israeli government has just appointed to South Sudan is a seasoned diplomat. Haim Koren, in his fifties, has already held several important posts at the foreign  (...)  [194 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
Umod Ubong
   The President of Gambela Regional State in the western part of the country, Umod Ubong, is like a cat on a hot tin roof and could be ousted from his office, as has already happened  (...)  [193 words]   [$7]

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