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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Tanzania
Foreign diplomats irk John Magufuli

The trial of the journalist Erick Kabendera on 18 December [...]

Subscribers only Politics 27.12.2019

Eritrea
Danakali seeking $70 million to launch Colluli

The management at Australian firm Danakali has set itself a [...]

Subscribers only Finance, Mining 24.12.2019

Tanzania
Symbion Power - Tanesco arbitration tribunal established at last

A Singaporean lawyer, a former Nigerian minister and a former president of the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights have been appointed to sit on the World Bank tribunal arbitrating between Symbion Power and the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco).

Subscribers only Infrastructure 23.12.2019

Uganda
How a cornered Museveni gave in to Total and Tullow Oil

With 2021 elections approaching the Ugandan president felt it best to keep the oil firms happy.

Subscribers only Energy 17.12.2019

Kenya
Tullow tax: Treasury puts Kenyatta's team under maximum pressure

With the National Treasury unhappy about being left out of the tax negotiations with Tullow, the oil ministry is bending over backwards to get a new deal signed.

Free access Energy 17.12.2019

Kenya
Why Tullow/Total/Africa Oil's second oil lifting will have to wait

The second lifting of 200,000 barrels of Kenyan oil from [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.12.2019

Kenya
Chinese, Turkish, German and Indian firms vie for second tranche of Mombasa-Mariakani highway

The nine companies competing for the contract must submit their bids before the end of January.

Subscribers only Infrastructure 16.12.2019

Kenya
US commandos offer Kenya three of their favourite Polish aircraft

By sending Kenya three M28 Skytrucks, Washington is boosting the African country's air defence capacity but also preparing the way for future joint special operations.

By September 2020, Washington will deliver three M28 Skytruck aircraft to Kenyan aviation.

Subscribers only Politics 13.12.2019

Kenya
US commandos offer Kenya three of their favourite Polish aircraft

Between now and September 2020, the US Air Force (USAF) will deliver three twin-engine M28 Skytrucks to the Kenya Air [...]

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy 13.12.2019

Kenya
Ruto vies with Kenyatta clan for ownership of Star

The Star daily newspaper, seen as a campaigning vehicle for the 2022 presidential election, is on sale and coveted by both Kenyatta's entourage and his potential successor William Ruto.

Subscribers only 13.12.2019

Ethiopia
Concerted drive to attract private investment

In Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali's view, only by attracting private investors - and above all foreign direct investment (FDI) [...]

Subscribers only 13.12.2019

Uganda
Turkish firms investigated over counterfeit shillings

The Indian Ocean Newsletter has gained access to an investigation by the Internal Security Organization (ISO) into a network of [...]

Subscribers only 13.12.2019

Djibouti
Businessman Abdourahman Boreh to return to the fold?

According to well-informed sources, President Ismail Omar Guelleh (IOG) and the Franco-Djiboutian businessman Abdourahman Boreh have been talking more and [...]

Subscribers only 13.12.2019

Document | Djibouti
Ensuite Com brought on board to win Ismail Omar Guelleh a Security Council seat

In its bid to become Africa's non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, Djibouti has retained the services of the [...]

Free access 13.12.2019

Ethiopia, European Union
Ursula von der Leyen stakes out her territory

The visit of the president of the European Commission, Germany's Ursula von der Leyen, to Addis Ababa on 7 and [...]