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N°1278 - Paris, 01/30/2010
02/02/2010
- Ethiopia -
Major problem at Gibe II power station
27/01/2010
- Madagascar -
Andry Rajoelina transits through Paris
Francis Soler
DJIBOUTI
Editor in Chief
Sarkozy gives Guelleh his benediction
French President Nicolas Sarkozy finally took up the two-year old invitation from his Djibouti counterpart President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG) to visit his country. The visit was indeed lightning, at 11 pm on 19 January when the aircraft taking Sarkozy to Paris on his way back from Mayotte and Reunion Island stopped for fuel.
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The Islamist threat is back in Kenya
A decade after the terrorist attacks on Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Kenya and its US ally have once again come up against the threat from Islamist extremists.
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POLITICS & POWER
UGANDA
Museveni vs Sudanese threat
Ugandan military High Command recently raised the possibility of redeploying to South Sudan a portion of Ugandan troops currently on service in the African Union Mission to Somalia (Amisom).
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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.
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Nairobi
The family of the former governor of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), Philip Ndegwa, has just pulled off a good trading deal.
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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”.
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Hargeisa
The Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale (IHEDN, France) awarded a special prize on 21 January for work carried out in Somaliland.
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COMOROS ISLANDS
A pusillanimous Speaker
President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi insisted that the new Speaker of the Parliament of the Union of the Comoros should not upstage him.
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MADAGASCAR
Paris’s advice to Rajoelina
The French officials that Andry Rajoelina met in Paris suggested that he dilute his actions.
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DJIBOUTI
A succession of armed incidents
Small armed incidents recently took place in the north and west of the country. While impact on security is limited, they are giving the government cause for concern.
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ON THE LINE
KENYA
A government propaganda publication in Kenya
The Kenyan ministry of information and communication is due to launch a weekly magazine this week to counteract coverage hostile to the government in the private media.
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DJIBOUTI
Life-size French military exercise Djibouti
Going under the name Djalelo Gris, the latest military exercise of the 13th DBLE (the Foreign Legion) based in Djibouti, was not without a certain degree of realism.
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MADAGASCAR
Paris appreciates the current Prime Minister of Madagascar
The present Malagasy Prime Minister, Camille Vital, would seem to have the confidence of the French authorities, even though he had been appointed unilaterally by the Transition President Andry Rajoelina.
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MOZAMBIQUE
Southerners are still in charge of Mozambique
The appointment of Veronica Macamo to the post of Speaker of the Mozambique Parliament under the Frelimo (government party) banner further strengthens the stranglehold the elite from the South has on the country’s institutions.
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COMOROS ISLANDS
Azali is starting to annoy Sambi in the Comoros
After the meeting with President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, that was held at his request on 6 January, former President Assoumani Azali went out on a crusade against the current President’s plan to extend his mandate beyond May 2010.
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KENYA
The Islamist threat is back in Kenya
A decade after the terrorist attacks on Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Kenya and its US ally have once again come up against the threat from Islamist extremists.
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MAURITIUS
For and against an LP-MMM alliance
Although Navin Ramgoolam and Paul Berenger had a meeting on this subject, the question of an electoral alliance between their two parties is still at a dead end.
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DJIBOUTI
IOG’s opposition looking for its path
The components making up the opposition are groping their way towards forming a political campaign against Ismail Omar Guelleh running for a third mandate.
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BUSINESS CIRCLES
ZIMBABWE
Gideon Gono liquidates his shares
Facing an increasingly uncertain political future, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), Gideon Gono has begun to sell all the shares he owns in various groups for c
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COMPANIES
Pee Pee Tanzania Ltd
TANZANIA
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BBE Internationale
DJIBOUTI
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TAG-IP
MADAGASCAR
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Adept Chambers
TANZANIA
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Kenya Commercial Bank
BURUNDI/KENYA
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Jebel Ali Hotels
SEYCHELLES
[87 words] [$1.8]
Ruchi Soya Industries
ETHIOPIA
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Kenya Data Networks
KENYA
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Air Seychelles
SEYCHELLES
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SUDAN
Railway project in the South revived
Costello Garang Ring Lual, a special advisor to the President of South Sudan, has succeeded in interesting an American firm in the Juba to Tororo railway project.
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KENYA
Transcentury still longs for Uchumi
Two years after it failed to become a strategic partner in Uchumi Supermarkets, the Transcentury group is trying again with a more modest proposal.
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TANZANIA/KENYA
Battle over ports with Kenya
The two neighbouring countries are both looking for an alternative port solution to ease the congestion of their main outlets.
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TANZANIA
Endless land rights problems
Protests by villagers accusing the regime's dignitaries of taking over land at their expense are on the increase throughout the country.
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COMOROS ISLANDS
Forum and tourism in Kuwait
The performance of the economic forum on the Comoros held in Kuwait in mid January did not come up to the organisers’ expectations.
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ETHIOPIA
Canaco gets a foothold in Tigray
The Canadian company Canaco, already exploring for minerals in Tanzania, is now looking to Ethiopia.
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EAST AFRICA
Fighting it out for a contract
A string of consultants was in the race for a study of the energy needs of the countries in the Nile basin.
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WHO'S WHO
KENYA
John Macharia
John Macharia, the son of the media magnate Samuel K. Macharia, is not a happy man at the moment.
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MADAGASCAR
Hery Rakotoarijaona
While the former Prime Minister Monja Roindefo and Ando Parson, the general director of the PR company Toowell were both refused a licence to create a private radio station by the
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MADAGASCAR/FRANCE
Sylvain Rabetsaroana
The Senator and businessman Sylvain Rabetsaroana, who accompanied President Andry Rajoelina on a trip to Libya via Paris this week (see p.
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KENYA
Miguna Miguna
The special advisor to Prime Minister Raila Odinga for matters concerning the government coalition, Miguna Miguna, has managed to get so many people’s backs up that he could soon be
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ETHIOPIA/UNITED STATES
Hailu Shawel
The leader of the All Ethiopian Unity Party (AEUP), an opposition faction that accepted to participate in the next general election, is soon to go to the USA for medical reasons.
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