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Last Chance for Bujagali
The defection of the American firm AES from the Bujagali dam project didn't dissuade President Yoweri Museveni and the World Bank's executives
The defection of the American firm AES from the Bujagali dam project didn't dissuade President Yoweri Museveni and the World Bank's executives
With Walter Kansteiner's upcoming departure from his post of United States assistant secretary of state for African Affairs (ION 1057), [...]
When he was hosting Malagasy Prime Minister Jacques Sylla in Brussels on October 21, the European commissioner for development, Poul [...]
More than 90 people attended a luncheon hosted by the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) and the Friends of Africa Business [...]
The Bank of Africa (BOA) group, which operates in six West African countries and in Madagascar, is going to develop [...]
The Ethiopian Privatization Agency (EPA) is having a hard time privatizing the country's three state-owned breweries (Meta Abo Brewery, Bedele [...]
White farmers of British or Dutch origin living in the Timau hills east of Mount Kenya in the Meru region [...]
The French company François-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire beat its competitors (German, Canadian, Austrian and British) to win a large contract from [...]
Although the Financial Services Charter released on October 17 has been applauded by the government and sanctioned by stock markets, [...]
By financing regional interconnections, the World Bank is going to become a player in Southern Africa's big electricity deals.
The defection of several tour operators is ruining the Kenyan tourist season.
Everyone agrees on the need to make over Tanzania's tax system, but the government's draft bill is worrying the private sector.
The poor management of the ZFPC, coupled with its clashes with Tanesco, are increasing the power sector's troubles in Zanzibar.
President Assoumani Azali seems to have gotten the Bretton Woods institutions to send a new IMF mission to Moroni.
A career diplomat was just named the Mozambican ambassador to Madrid. A native of Quelimane, the capital of the Zambezia [...]
The South African ambassador to Indonesia is the target of a campaign launched in his country this week by the [...]
An Environmental Monitoring Department for Water and Forests has just been created at the general directorate for the environment in [...]
The Ugandan prime minister has just been named chancellor of the University of Makerere, becoming the first person other than [...]
After the mobilization of several MPs against the antiterrorist law, a new parliamentary revolt is shaping up against the Public Procurement Bill.
The party that Renamo's dissents want to create in December will have a long way to go before becoming a real third political force.
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The deposed president of Oromia Regional State has just been restored - both within his political party and in the Ethiopian government.
The choice of a vice president to replace the late Muzenda is a head-scratcher for Mugabe because of its ethnic implications.
Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, has just named [...]
The British House of Commons' International Development Committee, presided over [...]
The Ugandan finance minister will release 3.17 billion shillings ($1 [...]
The Sudanese authorities have named the consultant charged with the [...]
Air Seychelles' executive chairman, Captain David Savy, wrote to the [...]
During his recent visit to Paris, the president of the [...]
The managing director of the Black Management Forum (BMF) for [...]
A French businessman who works in trade between Mauritius and [...]
The Agence française de développement has a new representative in [...]
The current vice president and former president of the Ethiopian [...]
Known as a beer-lover, especially of the Kenyan brand White [...]