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POLITICS AND POWER

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1290 - 24/07/2010 POLITICS & POWER
Portuguese companies wipe the board

Portuguese companies have been on the attack in Maputo since the beginning of the year, and not only in their prime sectors of the construction and banking industries. Cramped by a home market in a state of crisis, many of them have looked abroad for contracts to maintain their level of activity and profitability. (...) [689 words] [$9.5]

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1290 - 24/07/2010 POLITICS & POWER
Bomb attacks stoke the police forces

Two factors have stimulated the growth in the number of separate Ugandan security forces. For one thing, President Yoweri Museveni wants to keep everything in his personal control. (...) [281 words] [$5.4]

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1290 - 24/07/2010 POLITICS & POWER
Malazarivo struggles to appoint heads

For the second time this week, the Cabinet of Ministers chaired by the President of the High Authority for Transition (HAT) Andry Rajoelina, has put back the appointment of heads of State-owned media companies whose names were put forward by the Minister for Communication, Félix Malazarivo. (...) [232 words] [$5.4]

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1290 - 24/07/2010 POLITICS & POWER
EPRDF bolsters Eritrean opponents

The Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF, Ethiopian governing coalition) sponsored a conference of various Eritrean nationalities at Mekele in the Tigray Regional State in the north of Ethiopia on 7 July. (...) [324 words] [$5.4]

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1289 - 10/07/2010 POLITICS & POWER
TGV bracing for a gloomy southern winter

Things are going from bad to worse for the President of the High Authority for Transition (HAT), Andry Rajoelina known as TGV, who has gone into a headlong rush while the country’s economic and financial situation is deteriorating. (...) [727 words] [$9.5]

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1289 - 10/07/2010 POLITICS & POWER
Kibaki wants to counter Church “No”

The result of the referendum on the proposed new constitution, to be held on 4 August, could go the wrong way for President Mwai Kibaki because of the opposition from certain Christian Church leaders: (...) [227 words] [$5.4]

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1289 - 10/07/2010 POLITICS & POWER
Tendai Biti is Tsvangirai's pet hate

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai spends more time worrying about his rivals in his party, MDC, than he does opposing ministers in Zanu-PF of President Robert Mugabe. (...) [163 words] [$5.4]

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1289 - 10/07/2010 POLITICS & POWER
MSM places its men

Another leader of the Mouvement Socialiste Militant (MSM, minority partner in the governing coalition) has just been selected to take up an important function. (...) [283 words] [$5.4]

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1288 - 26/06/2010 POLITICS & POWER
Kikuyu support for Kibaki dwindles

Certain of the most loyal Kikuyu supporters of President Mwai Kibaki can’t find a role in the new constitution that the Head of State will put to a referendum on 4 August. It is not only the text of the constitution that troubles them, but more importantly the referendum campaign – they see it as the launching pad to send Prime Minister Raila Odinga into orbit in readiness for the 2012 presidential election. (...) [736 words] [$9.5]

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1288 - 26/06/2010 POLITICS & POWER
A plague on the Boreh family assets

The President of the Djibouti lower court (TPI), Hassan Idriss Samirieh, did not take long to act on a complaint filed on 9 June by the Djibouti government. (...) [328 words] [$5.4]

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1290 - 24/07/2010 POLITICS & POWER
The health minister is protected

The Minister for Health Abdallah Abdillahi Miguil and several members of his staff are directly in the sights of an investigation into his ministry’s squandering of United Nations aid to Djibouti to fight AIDS. (...) [225 words] [$5.4]

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1290 - 24/07/2010 POLITICS & POWER
A journalist deprived of his column

Mutahi Ngunyi, a specialist in political issues and columnist on the Sunday Nation, has irritated the Kenyan authorities by coming out for a “No” vote in the constitutional referendum on 4 August. (...) [157 words] [$5.4]

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1290 - 24/07/2010 POLITICS & POWER
Somalia: Ana Gomes kicks up a fuss

The 13 July session of the European Parliament defence sub-committee turned into a debate on European policy in the Somalia region. (...) [246 words] [FREE]

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1290 - 24/07/2010 POLITICS & POWER
Monja believes in his lucky star

The former Prime Minister Roindefo Monja would like to be back in the saddle due to the current difficulties encountered by the President of the High Authority for Transition (HAT), Andry Rajoelina known as TGV. (...) [377 words] [$5.4]

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1289 - 10/07/2010 POLITICS & POWER
William Ruto a press baron

The Minister for Higher Education, William Ruto, will be the next politician to have media punch. He is a member of Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s party ODM, but is on bad terms with him. (...) [269 words] [$5.4]

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1289 - 10/07/2010 POLITICS & POWER
UPDF hunts the LRA in CAR

The Ugandan rebel movement Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) led by Joseph Kony is a veritable blot on regional security that the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF, Ugandan army) and its allies have not been able to eradicate. (...) [255 words] [$5.4]

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1289 - 10/07/2010 POLITICS & POWER
Djibouti: No opposition agreement in sight

Some well-known opponents to the regime - Daher Ahmed Farah known as DAF, Mohamed Kadamy and Mohamed Daoud Chehem – were present at the press conference held in Paris on 24 June by Olivier Morice, the lawyer acting for Abdourahman Boreh. (...) [390 words] [FREE]

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1289 - 10/07/2010 POLITICS & POWER
Equipment from India goes AWOL

The Indian Ambassador to the Comoros, Azad Singh Toor, is not at all happy: he has still not managed to find out what has happened to the telemedicine equipment his country donated to the Comoros about a year ago, which mysteriously disappeared without trace. (...) [307 words] [$5.4]

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1288 - 26/06/2010 POLITICS & POWER
Joaquim Chissano back soon

The African Union (AU) mediator on the crisis in Madagascar, the former President of Mozambique Joaquim Chissano, should be going to Antanarivo in the closing days of June, after his country’s national holiday (25 June) and Madagascar’s (26 June). (...) [242 words] [$5.4]

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1288 - 26/06/2010 POLITICS & POWER
The visa refusal saga

An expert on the Horn of Africa with the Congressional Research Service, Ted Dagne recounted the relations between Eritrea and the United States since the USAID office in Asmara was closed in 2005 at the request of Eritrea. (...) [157 words] [$5.4]

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