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Eastern Africa and the Horn

China, Ethiopia
Problems loom for Desalegn

The Chinese company ZTE has brought its dispute with Ethio Telecom to the Ethiopian Prime Minister.

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2014

Kenya
Raila Odinga increasingly isolated

The opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) is now the only grouping calling for a referendum for half the national budget [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2014

Djibouti
No honeymoon for IOG's daughter

Haybado, the daughter of President Ismail Omar Guelleh (IOG), who married education minister Djama Elmi Okieh, last week, is not planning to go on honeymoon straight away.

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2014

Kenya
Ban Ki-moon convinces President Kenyatta

Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, used his [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2014

Djibouti
Kadra Douksieh, high chieftain of itc

Since she went back to Djibouti after running the company Nomad Telecom in Montpellier, southern France, which was struck off [...]

Subscribers only 31.10.2014

Tanzania
Lynda Chalker offers her services to Dar es Salaam

Africa Matters (AML), the consulting company founded and chaired by the British former Conservative Minister of State for Overseas Development [...]

Subscribers only 31.10.2014

Ethiopia
Abdi Ilay saves his skin in the Somali region

The promotion of Abraham Woldemariam Genezebu to the rank of lieutenant-general ( ION 1389) brought an end to the disgrace [...]

Free access 31.10.2014

Sudan
Khartoum wants tighter hold on gold bonanza

Largely deprived of oil revenue since Sudan was split in two, Khartoum is fiddling with mining legislation to make sure [...]

Free access Mining 28.10.2014

Spotlight | Sudan
Bechir pushes ahead with oil grab

Sudanese president Omar El Bechir is continuing to tighten his grip on all economic sectors in his country, and oil is certainly no exception. He is appointing his favourites to top jobs and handing out gifts to long-standing allies like [.

Subscribers only Energy 21.10.2014

Tanzania
Dar es Salaam gives the nod to Oman Trading

The Tanzania Petroleum Development Corp (TPDC) is currently negotiating the fine details of a contract for the supply of oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.10.2014

Rwanda
Light for almost all in 2017

Rwandan president Paul Kagame, who could stand for re-election in 2017, is working overtime to increase the electrification rate in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.10.2014

Sudan
Abdul Rahman Osman, State Oil Co’s talisman

The chairman of State Oil Co Canada, Lutfur Rahman Khan, is counting on Abdul Rahman Osman to help build up [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.10.2014

Kenya | Oil Services
Greatwall drills for Lion Petroleum

A subsidiary of CNPC, Greatwall Drilling Co, has been retained [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.10.2014

Kenya
New oil regulatory authority

Kenya’s new oil bill, that is due to be tabled [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.10.2014

Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia
Last hope for Tanesco

Up to its ears in debt (nearly 400 billion shillings, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.10.2014

Kenya
Niras to design future oil terminal

A Danish consulting concern, Niras, won a contract put out [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.10.2014

Tanzania
Warrior Security to work for BG

A private security firm founded by Tony Sudgen and Ashton [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.10.2014

France, Somalia, Somaliland
Bollore puts his effort on Berbera

Bollore Africa Logistics has unsuccessfully been after the contract to run the port of Berbera for the last five years.

Subscribers only 17.10.2014

Tanzania
Muhongo has faith in Italians for Tiper

Energy minister Sospeter Muhongo hopes he has enticed an Italian potential candidate to revive the Dar es Salaam refinery which closed in 1991.

Subscribers only 17.10.2014

Ethiopia
Beer bonanza turns sour

Despite a growing level of demand, the breweries are heading for overcapacity. Some players could seriously burn their fingers in this gold rush into the beer market.

Subscribers only 17.10.2014

Djibouti
Two oil companies lying in wait

Two oil companies are at the starting blocks to take advantage of the demise of Total’s and Libya Oil’s local subsidiaries.

Subscribers only 17.10.2014

Ethiopia
Turkish funds to rescue ERC

Struggling to finance the Awash-Woldia rail project, the Ethiopian government has snatched a deal with the Turkish Eximbank to build this strategic axis.

Subscribers only 17.10.2014

Somalia, Somaliland
Mohamed Bihi Yonis

The Somaliland foreign minister Mohamed Bihi Yonis, who has been serving since June 2013, is on a roll. The current [...]

Subscribers only 17.10.2014

Kenya
Mohamed Jaffer

The head of Grain Bulk Handlers, Mohamed Jaffer, has changed tack, withdrawing his support for opposition leader Raila Odinga. He [...]

Subscribers only 17.10.2014

Kenya
Simon Gicharu

The head of the Rural Electrification Authority (REA), Simon Gicharu, is seriously considering going into politics. His ambitions are turned [...]

Subscribers only 17.10.2014

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