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N°1243 - Paris,  26/07/2008    22/08/2008 - Mauritius - National lottery gets off to a bad start  22/08/2008 - Comoros - Kamoula/BIC conflict comes to an end [Summer break: Next issue on August 30] Francis Soler UGANDA Editor in Chief Museveni doesn’t want to hand over With three presidential mandates and 22 years of power under his belt, the 64-year old President Yoweri Museveni fully intends to stand for election again in 2011. (...)   [699 words]  [$8,2] FREE ARTICLE Mugabe still at the helm   Zanu-PF and the two rival MDC factions have accepted to begin negotiations. But Robert Mugabe still considers himself the country’s legitimate President. (...)  [302 words]  [FREE] POLITICS & POWER KENYA Martha Karua increasingly isolated    A group of MPs and businessmen from the Central Province that considers Uhuru Kenyatta to be the best placed person to succeed President Mwai Kibaki in 2012, or at least to negotiate the position of number two behind Kalonzo Musyoka , is making endless initiatives to try to isolate the Minister for Justice Martha Karua .  (...)  [234 words]  [$4,7] BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Asmara    The former spokesman of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF, armed opposition backed by Eritrea), Lencho Bati contacted The Indian Ocean Newsletter to point out that he had never been imprisoned in Asmara accused of “bad behaviour towards a woman”, contrary to what we had published (ION 1242). (...)  [72 words]  [$1,5] Djibouti    Former President Hassan Gouled’s nephew is going into a new business area. (...)  [110 words]  [$1,5] Addis Ababa    The Spanish Ambassador to Ethiopia has taken leave of the authorities in this country and of several others (Djibouti and Seychelles) where she was also accredited. (...)  [58 words]  [$1,5] Dar Es Salaam    The Tanzanian Ambassador to Japan, Elly Elikunda Elineema Mtango, was so impressed by the Zen Buddhist ideas of Kazuo Inamori, honorary chairman of the Japanese company Kyocera Corporation specialised in solar energy, that he will disseminate them in his own country. (...)  [73 words]  [$1,5] Addis Ababa    Judge Nur Mohammed, who had condemned former President Mengistu Haile Mariam to death, has displeased Prime Minister Meles Zenawi by freeing men suspected of links to the Ogaden Liberation National Front (ONLF, rebel movement), who were then re-imprisoned by the police. (...)  [51 words]  [$1,5] ETHIOPIA EPRDF passes the hat round    The coalition in power is calling on the generosity of businessmen who prospered under its reign so that it can build its new headquarters and political training centre.  (...)  [303 words]  [$4,7] MADAGASCAR Marcel Ranjeva rescued by a cousin    Through his cousin’s backing in the media, the minister for foreign affairs tried to escape his responsibility in the affair of the departure of Gildas Le Lidec.  (...)  [189 words]  [$4,7] MADAGASCAR Rakotoarivelo’s vacation    The decision by the National Assembly’s finance administrator to take a vacation in the USA followed by a visit to China has made teeth gnash in Antananarivo.  (...)  [195 words]  [$4,7] ON THE LINE MADAGASCAR A Taiwanese diplomat on a special mission to Madagascar    In principle, it was the Taiwanese representation in South Africa that should have taken charge of the operations to look for the nine Taiwanese on board the Malagasy trawler Tropicana II that was shipwrecked east of Madagascar on 12 July. (...)  [145 words]  [$1,5] UGANDA A government of national union in Uganda?    While President Yoweri Museveni wants to win a new presidential mandate (see p. (...)  [208 words]  [$1,5] COMOROS ISLANDS The army metes out justice in Anjouan    Two recently appointed public prosecutors have thrown in the towel in the face of pressure from the Armée nationale de développement (AND). (...)  [118 words]  [$1,5] ETHIOPIA Azeb Mesfin vs Teshome Toga in Ethiopia    The close of the parliamentary session in mid-July was the only thing able to put an end, momentarily at least, to the quarrel between the Speaker of Parliament Teshome Toga and the wife of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi . (...)  [132 words]  [$1,5] SEYCHELLES Jean François Ferrari blows it in the Seychelles    When he resigned to protest against the actions of the Speaker of the National Assembly, Patrick Herminie (ION 1241), the Seychelles National Party (SNP, opposition) MP Jean François Ferrari had hoped to provoke a referendum in his favour and so revive his party, currently in the political doldrums. (...)  [168 words]  [$1,5] ZIMBABWE Mugabe still at the helm    Zanu-PF and the two rival MDC factions have accepted to begin negotiations. But Robert Mugabe still considers himself the country’s legitimate President.  (...)  [302 words]  [FREE] DJIBOUTI Osman Ahmed Moussa on the ebb    Sick and frequently absent, the minister for the promotion of investments has lost his prerogatives concerned with presidential affairs.  (...)  [301 words]  [$4,7] MAURITIUS How Sithanen laid a trap for Bheenick    The mechanism set up by the finance minister to outfox the governor of the Bank of Mauritius worked a treat during the debate on raising the bank base rate.  (...)  [341 words]  [$4,7] BUSINESS CIRCLES COMOROS ISLANDS Kuwaiti projects put on hold    For the last month, the building sites of the Hôtel Itsandra and the Banque Fédérale pour le Commerce (BFC) have been at a standstill and those in charge have gone abroad.  (...)  [206 words]  [$4,7] COMPANIES Bedson Moçambique    MOZAMBIQUE   [87 words]  [$1,5] JB Djibouti Mining    DJIBOUTI   [74 words]  [$1,5] Etraph Finance    MOZAMBIQUE   [141 words]  [$1,5] NBM    MADAGASCAR   [153 words]  [$1,5] Mauritius Leasing    MADAGASCAR   [136 words]  [$1,5] Ital-Thai    MADAGASCAR   [71 words]  [$1,5] Access Leo Burnett    KENYA   [66 words]  [$1,5] Tororo Cement Industry    KENYA   [59 words]  [$1,5] Radio One    MAURITIUS   [74 words]  [$1,5] Aircraft Leasing Services    KENYA   [73 words]  [$1,5] SNC-Lavalin    MADAGASCAR   [61 words]  [$1,5] Rift Channel Resources    MADAGASCAR   [59 words]  [$1,5] SUDAN Private bank well placed in Juba    The third private bank in South Sudan, which began its activity in February 2008, includes ministers and high-ranking officers among its executives.  (...)  [266 words]  [$4,7] MADAGASCAR Sirama in trouble    The call for tenders to put the Brickaville and Nosy Be sugar refineries up for rent and management was fruitless and has had to be re-issued.  (...)  [229 words]  [$4,7] KENYA En route for Kigali    A group of Kenyan front line entrepreneurs has formed an investment company to do business with Rwanda in various sectors of activity.  (...)  [172 words]  [$4,7] SOMALIA Liban Bogor leaves Range Resources    The nephew of the President of Puntland has been a little too involved in the prospecting activities of the Africa Oil Corp, which works Range Resources’ oil permits.  (...)  [246 words]  [$4,7] MOZAMBIQUE Former servicemen go into business    Former higher officers linked to Frelimo have for many years been active in business. It is now the turn of former presidential guards to do likewise.  (...)  [343 words]  [FREE] KENYA Strong pressure on Rift Valley Railways    The Kenyan and Ugandan governments are to meet to discuss the disappointing performance of the consortium running the railways in both their countries.  (...)  [323 words]  [$4,7] WHO'S WHO UNITED KINGDOM/AFRICA Simon Smart    The spokesperson of the British embassy in Paris in charge of African affairs, Lucy Joyce , is to go back to London to work on the preparations for the 2012 Olympic Games.  (...)  [158 words]  [$4,7] UNITED KINGDOM/KENYA Robert Macaire    The new British Ambassador in Nairobi who will take up his post in August is a specialist on defence and anti-terrorist matters.  (...)  [196 words]  [$4,7] SOUTH AFRICA Christophe Richard    The next director of the Agence française de développement (AFD) in southern Africa will take up his functions in Johannesburg on 1 September.  (...)  [216 words]  [$4,7] UGANDA Ronald Kasibante    The ex-deputy manager of Shell in Uganda is in dispute with his former company, although he had left it on good terms at the end of the 1990s when he declined a transfer to Nige  (...)  [185 words]  [$4,7] MADAGASCAR Nivo Rakotondramonja    The discretion did not last very long around the arrival of Ms Nivo Rakotondramonja to the post of general secretary of the government following the departure in February of Alice  (...)  [125 words]  [$4,7] MADAGASCAR Maria Pala    The manageress of the Pala jewellers shop in Antananarivo was established at the beginning of July as governor of district 920 (south western Indian Ocean) of the International  (...)  [79 words]  [FREE]

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