BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1281 - 13/03/2010 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Port Louis The Deputy Prime Minister Rama Sithanen and the Consul of Mauritius in Malta, Mr Roberts-Sampson Bristol Azore have given the small French public relations agency Bygmalion the task of organising a press conference in Paris on 23 March. (...)  [119 words]  [$1.8] THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1281 - 13/03/2010 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Addis Ababa Several leaders of the governing coalition EPRDF will not run in the parliamentary election this year and should therefore have to leave their official functions. (...)  [171 words]  [$1.8] THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1280 - 27/02/2010 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Djibouti About 70 policemen were sacked a few months ago, mainly Issas who were considered insufficiently obedient to the present authority, and some Afars. (...)  [95 words]  [$1.8] THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1280 - 27/02/2010 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Addis Ababa The words uttered by the Deputy Prime Minister Addisu Legesse during a recent meeting of his office sound almost like a confession. (...)  [72 words]  [$1.8] THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1279 - 13/02/2010 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Antananarivo The creation of a Masonic NGO was announced during the Rencontres Humanistes et Fraternelles Africaines et Malgaches (Rehfram) meeting which has just ended in Antananarivo. (...)  [105 words]  [$1.8] THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1278 - 30/01/2010 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Port-Louis The former Ambassador of the Seychelles in London, Bertrand Rassool, who now lives in Mauritius where he is the Deputy CEO of the British American Investment (BAI) group and a director of several companies, has just added another title on his business card. (...)  [85 words]  [$1.8] THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1278 - 30/01/2010 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Addis Ababa The American lawyers of the Saudi-Ethiopian magnate Mohamed Hussein Al-Amoudi did not take long to react to the release of the story on the Internet that the “Saudi princess” who had asked for political asylum in the United Kingdom was his daughter “Sarah Al Amoudi”. (...)  [111 words]  [$1.8] THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1277 - 16/01/2010 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Antananarivo In spite of the political crisis, Romuald Rakotondrazaka, the CEO of the agri-business firm Agrico, has just diversified his activity into working and exporting industrial gemstones. (...)  [80 words]  [$1.8] THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1277 - 16/01/2010 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Mamoudzou The team preparing President Nicolas Sarkozy’s trip to Reunion Island and Mayotte on 18 and 19 January is keeping its eye on the weather forecast. (...)  [75 words]  [$1.8] THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1276 - 25/12/2009 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Dar es Salaam The French Ambassador to Tanzania, Jacques Champagne de Labriolle sent an email via his services to all French people resident in Tanzania on 14 December to inform them that “the French government has embarked, since 2 November 2009, on a great debate on national identity”. (...)  [91 words]  [$1.8]   THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1281 - 13/03/2010 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Djibouti The Djibouti police have just undergone a kind of mini-purge. (...)  [87 words]  [$1.8] THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1280 - 27/02/2010 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Nairobi President Mwai Kibaki has let go his personally accredited doctor, Dan Gikonyo, and has put his health into the hands of the Kenyan army doctors. (...)  [102 words]  [$1.8] THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1280 - 27/02/2010 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Antananarivo There is more than one Gilbert in Madagascar. Contrary to what we stated in ION 1279, Gilbert Tahitsy is not the head of the Office Malgache d’études et de régulation des télécoms (Omert). (...)  [114 words]  [$1.8] THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1279 - 13/02/2010 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Djibouti The chairman of the Africa committee of Medef International and CEO of Gras Savoye (insurance), Patrick Lucas, does not regret taking an interest in Djibouti these last few years. (...)  [101 words]  [$1.8] THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1279 - 13/02/2010 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Addis Ababa The Ethiopian government is currently negotiating with donors about its conditions for accepting the presence of international observers during the next elections. (...)  [162 words]  [$1.8] THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1278 - 30/01/2010 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Nairobi The family of the former governor of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), Philip Ndegwa, has just pulled off a good trading deal. (...)  [92 words]  [$1.8] THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1278 - 30/01/2010 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Hargeisa The Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale (IHEDN, France) awarded a special prize on 21 January for work carried out in Somaliland. (...)  [87 words]  [$1.8] THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1277 - 16/01/2010 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Mogadishu The Crisis Management and Planning Directorate, which comes under the Council Secretariat of the European Union (EU), is working on a longer term project for Somalia. (...)  [105 words]  [$1.8] THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1277 - 16/01/2010 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Moroni Now that his partisans are the dominant force in Parliament of the Union of the Comoros and the Councils of the autonomous islands of Ngazidja and Anjouan, President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi wants to confirm the extension of his presidential mandate on a transitional basis until 2013. (...)  [123 words]  [$1.8] THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1276 - 25/12/2009 POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh would seem to be still hesitating on how to announce his candidacy in the 2011 presidential election and the amendment to the constitution that would involve. (...)  [94 words]  [$1.8]