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Spotlight | Southern Africa
ESKOM APPEALS TO EC

For nearly 10 years Eskom chief Ian McRay has been championing the idea of an interconnection between Southern Africa's electricity grids and he seized the occasion of a conference staged on Oct. 14-15 by the Brussels Club on the theme [...]

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Spotlight | Zimbabwe
Stalinists turn to businessmen

While they may still be Stalinist in their politics, the big shots in the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) have long since been active in business and a fair number of them are owners or shareholders of private [.

Subscribers only Politics 24.06.2005

South Africa
A black company in South Africa

The first container ship belonging to SA Liner Container Services should take to sea this week to link Cape Town [...]

Subscribers only 04.06.2004

Zimbabwe
Bank and Insurance on Stand By

Police investigations launched against some of the country's financial institutions prompted this sector's projects to be frozen abroad.

Subscribers only 05.03.2004

South Africa
A Campaigning Ambassador

The Portuguese ambassador to South Africa, Manuel T. Fernandes Pereira, has just appealed to the country's Portuguese community to ?actively? [...]

Subscribers only Politics 16.01.2004

Zimbabwe
The CZI Rescues the National Railways of Zimbabwe

The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) launched a campaign among its members to come to rescue the National Railways of [...]

Subscribers only 12.12.2003

South Africa
Affirmative Action in Banks

A few weeks before the black economic empowerment charter comes into effect in the financial sector in January 2004 (ION [...]

Subscribers only 05.12.2003

South Africa
Black Business Conclave

The prime theme of a conference in Johannesburg in early 2004 will be deciphering the government's black economic empowerment policy.

Subscribers only 07.11.2003

South Africa
French-style Empowerment

French firms in South Africa are not the most stubborn foreign investors in black economic empowerment.

Subscribers only 18.07.2003

South Africa
South Africa Takesthe Continent by Storm

In addition to West Africa, where it is looking for French partner to enable it to establish itself, the Amalgamated [...]

Subscribers only 11.07.2003

Spotlight | Zimbabwe
Black Magnates Profit from the Crisis

The indigenization of the economy that has President Robert Mugabe's approval is working beyond the agriculture sector

Subscribers only Politics 27.06.2003

Zimbabwe
Toward a Franco-South African Mediation

Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Robert Mugabe, who attended the Franco-African summit in Paris last week, reached an agreement with their [...]

Subscribers only Politics 28.02.2003

South Africa, United States
Assistance to the financial sector

A report details the areas in which American technical assistance could be given to the South African financial sector.

Subscribers only 20.12.2002

South Africa
Rands Tempt South Africa's Civil Servants

South Africa's ministers have been having a hard time keeping their ministries' director generals, because the appetite of the latter [...]

Subscribers only 11.10.2002

South Africa
Americans to Advise South Africa's IDC

The holding of the South African state, the Industrial Development Corporation, has signed a contract with an American cabinet, EMP [...]

Subscribers only 27.09.2002

Kenya
PRIORITY FOR RURAL HEALTH

Kenya is using financial assistance from its international fund donors to reorient health sector priorities to rural zones. For while [...]

Subscribers only 27.06.1998

Madagascar
ARMAND RALAIDOVY

The cancellation last week of the decree appointing Armand Ralaidovy to be coordinator of the World Bank health project known [...]

Subscribers only 27.09.1997

Equatorial Guinea
SCRAMBLE AT MALABO

As Equatorial Guinea is a small country with rich oil prospects several big groups are scrambling to install the first [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.1996

Spotlight | Southern Africa
DOGMA SWITCH FOR WORLD BANK?

Michel Wormser, head of the World Bank's private sector development and economics division for Africa, considers that a three-day symposium in South Africa on reforming sub-Saharan Africa's electricity sector last week saw a growing consensus on the need for "discipline" [.

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.1995

Mauritania, West Africa
MANANTALI DELAYED UNTIL 2000

The Manantali hydroelectric power station won't enter service in 1996 as the three member countries of the OMVS had hoped [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.1995

Kenya
POLITICAL DIALOGUE UNDER WAY

A first meeting of KANU (government party) representatives and delegates from opposition movements was held discreetly in Kenya last week [...]

Subscribers only 02.09.1995

Morocco
CATCHING THE TRADE WINDS

Morocco's Office National de l'Electricité chose the occasion of Jacques Chirac's lighting visit to Morocco on July 19 during an [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.08.1995

Ghana
KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

Kwesi Botchwey may owe his downfall to a drillship. The dismissal of Botchwey, a top-rate finance minister who played a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.08.1995

Spotlight | Madagascar
ZAFY AND RAVONY AT ODDS

Marked on June 10 by the largest opposition demonstration seen in Antananarivo since last year, the campaign for the impeachment of the head of state Albert Zafy, which opposition MPs are now threatening to continue inside parliament, has rekindled the [.

Subscribers only 17.06.1995

Spotlight | Mozambique
A STATE OF GRACE - FOR THE MOMENT

Mozambique's delegation at the World Bank's consultative group meeting, held in Paris on March 14 and 15, received the optimistic welcome traditionally reserved for most brand-new governments, at least for their first few months in office.

Subscribers only 18.03.1995

Spotlight | Madagascar
RAVONY BACK TO THE WALL

After having long shuffled its feet over the urgent economic reforms demanded by the international fund donors but without having come up with an alternative plan worthy of the name, Madagascar's government now has its collective back to the wall.

Subscribers only 25.02.1995

Mozambique
AIR FRANCE AND LAM CAN'T AGREE

Air France's decision to scrap its weekly Paris-Maputo flight via Johannesburg at the end of December, following a serious disagreement [...]

Subscribers only 21.01.1995

Spotlight | Tanzania
IMF SHOWS A TOUGH GRIP

Fund donors for Tanzania attending an informal meeting in Paris on December 14 decided to leave it to the International Monetary Fund to decide on releasing international aid to that country. IMF is to despatch a mission to Dar es [.

Subscribers only 17.12.1994

Tanzania
MWINYI TACKLES CORRUPTION HEAD-ON

At virtually the last second, head of state Ali Hassan Mwinyi has requested postponement (until next year) of the World [...]

Subscribers only 19.11.1994

Spotlight | South Africa
ENERGY WEEK

"The government has signed with ENH," declared Mario Marques, managing director of Mozambique's Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos. However, it was not with ENH but with Enron that Mozambique had signed a memorandum of understanding to develop the Pande gas deposit, [.

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.1994

Madagascar
ROADS FINANCED BY EDF

The European Development Fund (EDF), which is made up of European Union member-countries, is to examine an aid programme of [...]

Subscribers only 04.06.1994

Spotlight | Madagascar
RECIPROCAL MISTRUST

By taking his place at the head of the Malagasy delegation which renewed the dialogue with the Bretton Woods institutions in Washington at the beginning of April, the prime minister Francisque Ravony has tied his future to the results of [.

Subscribers only 28.05.1994

Africa
PROJECTS OF THE WORLD BANK

Several financing projects to assist countries along the Indian Ocean shoreline have recently been put out for examination by the [...]

Subscribers only 21.05.1994

Morocco
PRIVATE SECTOR ROUND STARTS

Bidding in the pre-qualification round for the construction of Morocco's first power stations to be built with private capital was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.1994

Gabon
OIL MINISTER WITH A WORLD BANK PROFILE

Paul Toungui has been given the mines-enery and hydraulic resources [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.1994

Guinea
PRIVATIZATION ACCORD

A consortium headed by Electricite de France and Hydro Quebec has "won a tender issued by the World Bank for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.03.1994

Spotlight | Ethiopia
OBSTACLES FOR INVESTMENTS MUST GO

Private investment projects and international credit for Ethiopia are not what is lacking. But bringing them to life is quite another matter and runs into numerous obstacles. At the end of 1993, the Investment Office of Ethiopia had listed six [.

Subscribers only 12.03.1994

Guinea
GARAFIRI: WAITING FOR MORE FUNDS

Even though a $150 million programme has been underway since last year to beef up the facilities of Energie Electrique [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.11.1993

Cameroon
YAOUNDE IN NEW PUSH

The managing director of Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH), Adolphe Moudiki, announced a few days ago that the state-owned company [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.10.1993

Spotlight | Kenya
BRUSHWOOD FIRES WITH DONORS

Although a Consultative Group meeting of the World Bank in Paris is expected on Kenya in the month of November, conditions still seem far from ready for normalising relations between the government in Nairobi and its fund donors.

Subscribers only 11.09.1993

Kenya
BANK CLEAN-UP

The manager of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), Eric Cheruiyot Kotut (a Kalenjin) gave his resignation to president Daniel [...]

Subscribers only 31.07.1993

Zimbabwe
TIMOTHY STAMPS

Zimbabwe's health minister Timothy Stamps caused ripples in Harare this week at the World Bank presentation of its annual development [...]

Subscribers only 17.07.1993

Comoros islands
KNOTTY ISSUE

A meeting was scheduled for Paris this week between officials from EDF-International and a Comoros Islands delegation led by Youssouf [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.07.1993

Spotlight | Madagascar
OPEN BALLOT

The legislative election campaign in Madagascar opened this week just two weeks ahead of the vote due on June 16, the result of which appears to be impossible to predict, mainly because of the large number of candidates (some of [.

Subscribers only 05.06.1993

Comoros islands
NEW TALK OF PRIVATIZATION

The Comoros government has reiterated its pledge to privatize the distribution of oil products and re-haul the electricity sector. The [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.05.1993

Zimbabwe
WORLD BANK PROJECTS

Negotiations for a 60 million-dollar credit from the World Bank-affiliate, International Development Association (IDA) for Zimbabwe are due to begin [...]

Subscribers only 15.05.1993

Mali
BHP IN LOULO PROJECT

As development on Mali's biggest gold deposit at Syama presses ahead, BHP Utah intends to join the Loulo project. An [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.04.1993

Tanzania
EXPENSIVE SOLUTION TO BADLY MANAGED IMPORT SUPPORT FUND

Over 190 local firms (public and private) could be forced to repay, between now and July, 176.6 billion shillings (542 [...]

Subscribers only 27.03.1993

Ghana
RURAL EXTENSION FOR POWER 5

IDA has offered Ghana a new loan for the equivalent of $80 million that is aimed at connecting rural areas [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.03.1993

South Africa
ECONOMIC STUDIES OUT SOON

The World Bank continues to pass the economic and social future of South Africa with a fine toothed comb. A [...]

Subscribers only 27.02.1993

Spotlight | Madagascar
ECONOMIC DEADLINE

The transition towards a third republic in Madagascar, has kicked off with the electoral victory of Albert Zafy in the presidential may well turn out to be none too smooth from an economic point of view, given that the country's [.

Subscribers only 20.02.1993

Kenya
POST-ELECTORAL GOVERNMENT SHAKE-UP

Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi presented a new government on January 13, the main feature of which is the appointment [...]

Subscribers only 16.01.1993

Spotlight | Mozambique
THE COSTLY BUSINESS OF PEACE

The Mozambican government has estimated its external financing requirement for 1993 at almost 1.2 billion dollars, including 419 million dollars of rescheduled debt. But to this figure has to be added the cost of three programmes that spin off the [.

Subscribers only 12.12.1992

Spotlight | Uganda
RELATIONS WITH FRANCE FIRM UP

The Ugandan government would like to become the first English-speaking African country to obtain credits from the French ministry of Cooperation, whose current policy is to lend to French-speaking and Portuguese-speaking countries only. Such an innovative move would constitute a [.

Subscribers only 07.11.1992

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Niger Washington watches as Tehran negotiates with Niamey for 300 tonnes of uranium

Guinea Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

The Renaissance Dam – a national symbol but a regional quandary

West African cocoa cartel battles with the traders

The generals waging war from Khartoum to Darfur

Spotlight | Southern Africa ESKOM APPEALS TO EC

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Spotlight | Zimbabwe Stalinists turn to businessmen

South Africa A black company in South Africa

Zimbabwe Bank and Insurance on Stand By

South Africa A Campaigning Ambassador

Zimbabwe The CZI Rescues the National Railways of Zimbabwe

South Africa Affirmative Action in Banks

South Africa Black Business Conclave

South Africa French-style Empowerment

South Africa South Africa Takesthe Continent by Storm

Spotlight | Zimbabwe Black Magnates Profit from the Crisis

Zimbabwe Toward a Franco-South African Mediation

South Africa, United States Assistance to the financial sector

South Africa Rands Tempt South Africa's Civil Servants

South Africa Americans to Advise South Africa's IDC

Kenya PRIORITY FOR RURAL HEALTH

Madagascar ARMAND RALAIDOVY

Equatorial Guinea SCRAMBLE AT MALABO

Spotlight | Southern Africa DOGMA SWITCH FOR WORLD BANK?

Mauritania, West Africa MANANTALI DELAYED UNTIL 2000

Kenya POLITICAL DIALOGUE UNDER WAY

Morocco CATCHING THE TRADE WINDS

Ghana KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

Spotlight | Madagascar ZAFY AND RAVONY AT ODDS

Spotlight | Mozambique A STATE OF GRACE - FOR THE MOMENT

Spotlight | Madagascar RAVONY BACK TO THE WALL

Mozambique AIR FRANCE AND LAM CAN'T AGREE

Spotlight | Tanzania IMF SHOWS A TOUGH GRIP

Tanzania MWINYI TACKLES CORRUPTION HEAD-ON

Spotlight | South Africa ENERGY WEEK

Madagascar ROADS FINANCED BY EDF

Spotlight | Madagascar RECIPROCAL MISTRUST

Africa PROJECTS OF THE WORLD BANK

Morocco PRIVATE SECTOR ROUND STARTS

Gabon OIL MINISTER WITH A WORLD BANK PROFILE

Guinea PRIVATIZATION ACCORD

Spotlight | Ethiopia OBSTACLES FOR INVESTMENTS MUST GO

Guinea GARAFIRI: WAITING FOR MORE FUNDS

Cameroon YAOUNDE IN NEW PUSH

Spotlight | Kenya BRUSHWOOD FIRES WITH DONORS

Kenya BANK CLEAN-UP

Zimbabwe TIMOTHY STAMPS

Comoros islands KNOTTY ISSUE

Spotlight | Madagascar OPEN BALLOT

Comoros islands NEW TALK OF PRIVATIZATION

Zimbabwe WORLD BANK PROJECTS

Mali BHP IN LOULO PROJECT

Tanzania EXPENSIVE SOLUTION TO BADLY MANAGED IMPORT SUPPORT FUND

Ghana RURAL EXTENSION FOR POWER 5

South Africa ECONOMIC STUDIES OUT SOON

Spotlight | Madagascar ECONOMIC DEADLINE

Kenya POST-ELECTORAL GOVERNMENT SHAKE-UP

Spotlight | Mozambique THE COSTLY BUSINESS OF PEACE

Spotlight | Uganda RELATIONS WITH FRANCE FIRM UP

Cameroon SONEL SEMI-PUBLIC?

Congo SNEL "AUDITED"; EDF NEGOTIATES

Chad REFINERY: POLITICS FIRST?

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Niger
Washington watches as Tehran negotiates with Niamey for 300 tonnes of uranium

Guinea
Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

Spotlight | Southern Africa
ESKOM APPEALS TO EC

Spotlight | Zimbabwe
Stalinists turn to businessmen

South Africa
A black company in South Africa

Zimbabwe
Bank and Insurance on Stand By

South Africa
A Campaigning Ambassador

Zimbabwe
The CZI Rescues the National Railways of Zimbabwe

South Africa
Affirmative Action in Banks

South Africa
Black Business Conclave

South Africa
French-style Empowerment

South Africa
South Africa Takesthe Continent by Storm

Spotlight | Zimbabwe
Black Magnates Profit from the Crisis

Zimbabwe
Toward a Franco-South African Mediation

South Africa, United States
Assistance to the financial sector

South Africa
Rands Tempt South Africa's Civil Servants

South Africa
Americans to Advise South Africa's IDC

Kenya
PRIORITY FOR RURAL HEALTH

Madagascar
ARMAND RALAIDOVY

Equatorial Guinea
SCRAMBLE AT MALABO

Spotlight | Southern Africa
DOGMA SWITCH FOR WORLD BANK?

Mauritania, West Africa
MANANTALI DELAYED UNTIL 2000

Kenya
POLITICAL DIALOGUE UNDER WAY

Morocco
CATCHING THE TRADE WINDS

Ghana
KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

Spotlight | Madagascar
ZAFY AND RAVONY AT ODDS

Spotlight | Mozambique
A STATE OF GRACE - FOR THE MOMENT

Spotlight | Madagascar
RAVONY BACK TO THE WALL

Mozambique
AIR FRANCE AND LAM CAN'T AGREE

Spotlight | Tanzania
IMF SHOWS A TOUGH GRIP

Tanzania
MWINYI TACKLES CORRUPTION HEAD-ON

Spotlight | South Africa
ENERGY WEEK

Madagascar
ROADS FINANCED BY EDF

Spotlight | Madagascar
RECIPROCAL MISTRUST

Africa
PROJECTS OF THE WORLD BANK

Morocco
PRIVATE SECTOR ROUND STARTS

Gabon
OIL MINISTER WITH A WORLD BANK PROFILE

Guinea
PRIVATIZATION ACCORD

Spotlight | Ethiopia
OBSTACLES FOR INVESTMENTS MUST GO

Guinea
GARAFIRI: WAITING FOR MORE FUNDS

Cameroon
YAOUNDE IN NEW PUSH

Spotlight | Kenya
BRUSHWOOD FIRES WITH DONORS

Kenya
BANK CLEAN-UP

Zimbabwe
TIMOTHY STAMPS

Comoros islands
KNOTTY ISSUE

Spotlight | Madagascar
OPEN BALLOT

Comoros islands
NEW TALK OF PRIVATIZATION

Zimbabwe
WORLD BANK PROJECTS

Mali
BHP IN LOULO PROJECT

Tanzania
EXPENSIVE SOLUTION TO BADLY MANAGED IMPORT SUPPORT FUND

Ghana
RURAL EXTENSION FOR POWER 5

South Africa
ECONOMIC STUDIES OUT SOON

Spotlight | Madagascar
ECONOMIC DEADLINE

Kenya
POST-ELECTORAL GOVERNMENT SHAKE-UP

Spotlight | Mozambique
THE COSTLY BUSINESS OF PEACE

Spotlight | Uganda
RELATIONS WITH FRANCE FIRM UP

Cameroon
SONEL SEMI-PUBLIC?

Congo
SNEL "AUDITED"; EDF NEGOTIATES

Chad
REFINERY: POLITICS FIRST?