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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Rwanda
Competition to revive Gatumba

The authorities in Kigali have issued a local and international [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.09.2014

Somalia
A Washington consultant for Mogadishu

The World Bank has accepted to use its Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR) to fund an international legal consultant for [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 29.09.2014

Tanzania
Who will explore Tanganyika?

Closed on May 15, Tanzania’s fourth licencing round that featured eight new blocks doesn’t seem to have met with much [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.2014

Tanzania
Maurel & Prom in pact with TPDC

Five years after acquiring Artumas and its gas assets in Tanzania and Mozambique, France's Maurel & Prom has penned a gas sales accord with Tanzania.

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.2014

Ethiopia
Delonex in Ogaden

A year after it was founded, Delonex Energy is making [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.2014

Sudan
Trafigura to change its bank

France’s BNP Paribas is going to halt its commodity trading [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.2014

Kenya
Essar turns back on refining

Unwilling to put up $1.5 billion to finance an upgrade [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.2014

Tanzania
Mabere Marando and Jethro Turyamwesiga

The Tanzanian lawyers of Moto Mabanga, Mabere Marando and Jethro [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.2014

Djibouti
A Sultan mediates with Eritrea

Qatar was not the only intermediary working to obtain the liberation of a Djibouti serviceman held by Eritrea.

Subscribers only Politics 19.09.2014

Tanzania
IPTL affair affects the government

Territories and housing minister Anna Tibaijuka acknowledged receiving $1 million from a shareholder in Independent Power Tanzania (IPTL).

Subscribers only Politics 19.09.2014

Somalia, Uganda
UPDF hiring Somalian experts

The Ugandan army and security services are looking for allies and informers among the Somalian exiles in Kampala. They are relying primarily on the Darood.

Subscribers only Politics 19.09.2014

Kenya, Somalia
Kenyatta keeps position on border issue

Uhuru Kenyatta is intransigent on the dispute with Somalia over the demarcation of the maritime boundary.

Subscribers only Politics 19.09.2014

Kenya
All sides woo the Kalenjin

The Kalenjin community is currently attracting the attention of government and opposition alike.

Free access Politics 19.09.2014

Djibouti
Aboubaker sweeps clean at the DPFZA

The chairman of theDjibouti Port & Free Zone Authority (DPZFA), Aboubaker Omar Hadi, has gradually ousted most of the organisation's original employees.

Subscribers only Politics 19.09.2014

Kenya
Panic in oil distribution sector

A serious crisis is brewing in the distribution of petroleum products, which could even lead to a shortage of fuel.

Subscribers only 19.09.2014

East Africa, United States
Lobbying by US planemakers

The U.S. Trade and Development Agency invited some African leaders to the United States to show them American know-how in the aviation sector.

Subscribers only 19.09.2014

Kenya
Police still waiting for its choppers

The competition is very fierce around the call for tenders for the lease of five helicopters for the police force.

Subscribers only 19.09.2014

Kenya
Suleiman Shahbal goes back to business

After an unsuccessful escapade into politics, Shahbal is focussing on the expansion of his Gulf African Bank.

Subscribers only 19.09.2014

France, Sudan
Yas Banifatemi

A partner with eight-years standing in the American law firm Shearman & Sterling, the Franco-Iranian lawyer based in Paris, Yas [...]

Subscribers only 19.09.2014

France, Kenya
Yves Boudot

The Paris-based Africa director of the French development agency Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD), Yves Boudot, left his post to [...]

Subscribers only 19.09.2014

Uganda
Adam Okello

The 37-year old computer scientist Adam Okello, who graduated in 2004 from Makerere University, never ceases to use his skills [...]

Subscribers only 19.09.2014

Tanzania, United States
Thomas Hoyt Friedkin

The American Thomas Hoyt Friedkin (who is worth $1.7 bn according to Forbes), a great lover of hunting, left Tanzania [...]

Subscribers only 19.09.2014

Djibouti
Djibouti president not picking up for USN

Since President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG) backtracked on the promises [...]

Subscribers only 19.09.2014

Kenya
New KCC

The State-owned dairy company New Kenya Cooperative Cremeries (New KCC) [...]

Subscribers only 19.09.2014

Somalia
DP World

The world’s third largest port operator, the United Arab Emirates [...]

Subscribers only 19.09.2014

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