POLITICS AND POWER

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1326 - 11/02/2012
MOZAMBIQUE
From battle dress to three piece suits
Taking their cue from President Armando Guebuza and his family, who have stakes several companies (see here), many former officers in the Mozambican army now lead very comfortable lives as businessmen. Over the years, they have creamed off the most lucrative economic sectors, sometimes verging on illegality, as in the case of forestry. (...)  [684 words]   [$11,2]
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1326 - 11/02/2012
ETHIOPIA
USA already looks to post- Meles
The United States has already reportedly begun to check two options for what could follow after Prime Minister Meles Zenawi: (...)  [274 words]   [$7]
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1326 - 11/02/2012
EUROPEAN UNION/SOUTH SUDAN
Even more money for security
The programme to disarm, demobilise and reintegrate 150,000 people that South Sudan is finalising with the UN will begin in difficult circumstances. (...)  [146 words]   [$7]
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1326 - 11/02/2012
DJIBOUTI
YEB's friends dissent
The standoff between President Ismail Omar Guelleh (IOG) and his former interior minister Yacin Elmi Bouh (YEB) following the presidential election in April 2011 has left scars that have still not healed. (...)  [283 words]   [$7]
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1326 - 11/02/2012
MADAGASCAR
A judge whom politicians fear
The appointment of Ranary Robertson Rakotonavalona to the post of Attorney General to the Supreme Court on 1st February no doubt brought back memories for many Malagasy politicians who have dealt with him in the past. (...)  [177 words]   [$7]
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1325 - 28/01/2012
REUNION ISLAND
Nassimah Dindar joins Bayrou
The chair of the Reunion Island General Council, Nassimah Dindar, decided a while ago that she was going to call her supporters to vote for François Bayrou, the candidate of the centre party MoDem, in the French presidential election in April and May. (...)  [186 words]   [$7]
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1325 - 28/01/2012
DJIBOUTI
Charly takes up home at Kempinski
The French-Moroccan businessman Ahmed Chaker known as Charly is going increasingly frequently to Djibouti, basing his activity out of the Kempinski hotel. (...)  [215 words]   [$7]
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1325 - 28/01/2012
KENYA
Yusuf revamps his radio stations
The Islamic radio station Frontier FM, which was acquired last year by the Minister for Defence Mohamed Yusuf (ION 1318), is to be completely reorganised so that it can broadcast over the entire country of Kenya. (...)  [164 words]   [$7]
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1325 - 28/01/2012
UGANDA
Few takers for NRM conclave
The attempts to heal the divisions in the National Resistance Movement (NRM, ruling party) have failed, one after another. The latest was a retreat from 9 to 19 January to redefine the party’s ideological bases, which was attended by just 125 of the party’s 275 MPs, despite the presence of President Yoweri Museveni. (...)  [181 words]   [$7]
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1324 - 14/01/2012
MADAGASCAR
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]
 
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1326 - 11/02/2012
ETHIOPIA
Who is talking to the Afar rebels?
The liberation of the two German and three Ethiopians kidnapped on 17 January near the Erta Ale volcano will depend to a large extent on the choice of negotiators (ION 1325). (...)  [273 words]   [$7]
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1326 - 11/02/2012
KENYA/SOMALIA
The army wants to march on Kismayo
The Kenyan army has had enough of giving the impression that the offensive it launched three months ago against the Al Shabaab Islamist militia has got bogged down in the south of Somalia. (...)  [220 words]   [$7]
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1326 - 11/02/2012
ETHIOPIA/SOMALILAND
No bilateral deal without Silanyo
The Somaliland Minister for Security, Mohamed Nour Arale and his colleague from foreign affairs, Mohamed Abdullahi Omer, set out on a mission to Addis Ababa on 27th January, but came home on empty-handed a few days later, on the 30th. (...)  [216 words]   [$7]
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1326 - 11/02/2012
KENYA
Githae's difficult first steps
A difficult baptism of fire for the Acting Minister for Finance, Njeru Githae, appointed to this position following the resignation of Uhuru Kenyatta when the International Criminal Court (ICC) confirmed his indictment for the ethnic clashes in 2008. (...)  [142 words]   FREE
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1325 - 28/01/2012
ETHIOPIA
Insecurity rules on the steps of the empire
After two decades in power, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) has still not been able to bring a lasting peace to certain of the country’s peripheral regions and establish regional administrations that are considered legitimate by the local populations. (...)  [728 words]   [$11,2]
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1325 - 28/01/2012
MAURITIUS
Rama Sithanen's come-back
The former Minister of Finance Rama Sithanen has joined in the controversy sparked by the report on the electoral reform of Mauritius. (...)  [260 words]   [$7]
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1325 - 28/01/2012
MADAGASCAR
Ravalomanana's new friends
Ousted President Marc Ravalomanana’s aborted attempt to return to Madagascar on 21 January brought to light a noticeable change in his entourage. (...)  [201 words]   [$7]
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1325 - 28/01/2012
KENYA
ICC upsets electoral order
Since the beginning of the week, all the Kenyan political party headquarters have been thinking hard about how to take the greatest advantage of the decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 23 January to indict four Kenyan leaders, including the Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and the former minister William Ruto. (...)  [353 words]   [$7]
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1325 - 28/01/2012
ETHIOPIA
The local leaders are beyond control
The Fique Shikisha community, a Somali clan in Ethiopia consisting of some 300,000 people, moved heaven and earth to denounce the atrocities (enforced removal and holding humanitarian aid to ransom) of which it is allegedly the victim by the Somali Regional State presided by Abdi Mohamed Omer which suspects it of sympathising with ONLF rebels. (...)  [190 words]   [$7]
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1324 - 14/01/2012
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]

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