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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Djibouti
Political prisoners centre stage

Dialogue that began on August 14 between the government and the Union pour le Salut National (USN) opposition party (ION [...]

Subscribers only Politics 13.09.2013

Somalia, Somaliland
Foreign firms head for exits

The oil firm Genel Energy isn’t the only one to pull out of Somaliland, citing security problems.

Subscribers only Politics 13.09.2013

Somalia
Disappointment over Jubaland accord

The Jubaland agreement has opened up the way to the donor conference on Somalia in Brussels on September 16. The agreement has many critics, however, in Mogadishu and Kismayo.

Subscribers only Politics 13.09.2013

Ethiopia
Addis Ababa

The managing director of the Ethiopian Electric Power Corp (EEPCo), [...]

Subscribers only Politics 13.09.2013

Djibouti
Controversy in Djibouti over jailed FRUD militant

One of the last political dialogue meetings between the Union [...]

Subscribers only 13.09.2013

Djibouti
Africans behind Farah For UNESCO post

The three candidates for the post of director general of [...]

Subscribers only 13.09.2013

Tanzania
Kibaran seeks top ranking in graphite stakes

A tiny Australian junior listed on ASX with a market cap of AUD 6.7 million, Kibaran Resources is seeking to [...]

Free access Mining 10.09.2013

Tanzania
Niobium: Cradle doesn’t want to wake up CBMM

As a tiny Australian explorer engaged in a very greenfield niobium project in Tanzania, Cradle Resources nonetheless harbors big ambitions. [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.09.2013

Somalia, Somaliland
Hussein Abdi Dualeh

Somaliland's energy and minerals minister Hussein Abdi Dualeh had a lot to say at the Africa Downunder Conference (organized by [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.09.2013

Tanzania | Dodoma
Need for mining surveys

A special guest at the ADU conference end of August [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.09.2013

Uganda
Total inches towards production

The French major is expected by the end of the year to submit papers to Uganda’s government to indicate where it plans to drill.

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.2013

Kenya
Milio: from Iraq to Kilimandjaro

The Milio trading company, the U.S. defence department’s leading supplier of oil products, is developing block L-20 in Kenya.

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.2013

Tanzania
Ramadhani Abdallah Shaaban

Shell has reached a new phase in its lobbying campaign with the authorities in Zanzibar. The government’s energy minister, Ramadhani [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.2013

South Sudan, Sudan
Donald Booth

In appointing Donald Booth as special envoy for Sudan and South Sudan on Aug. 28, president Barack Obama underscored his [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.2013

Sudan
Sudan

Because initial talks between Sudan and South Sudan on the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.2013

South Sudan
World Bank rides to rescue

The World Bank is currently preparing a $4 million assistance [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.2013

Sudan | Khartoum
Salva Kiir

Salva Kiir, president of South Sudan, was due to travel [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.2013

Sudan | Oslo
Anders Hannevik

Anders Hannevik, the new managing director of Svenska Petroleum Exploration, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.2013

Somalia
Howard in oil play

A company headed by former British Conservative Party leader Michael Howard (who now goes under the title of Lord Howard [...]

Free access Energy 03.09.2013

Kenya
Uhuru Kenyatta plays the Chinese card

Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga was counting on Korean companies. Uhuru Kenyatta prefers, for his part, giving pledges to Chinese firms.

Subscribers only 30.08.2013

Djibouti
G4S on the way out

The loss of a major contract brought the leaders of the British security firm G4S to want to leave Djibouti. But their local representative would love to keep the acronym.

Subscribers only 30.08.2013

Djibouti
A strike’s collateral victim

The strike by the Djibouti staff of the American Camp Lemomier military base has been a success. Except for Djib-Interim, which lost its contract.

Subscribers only 30.08.2013

Tanzania, United States
Lazaro Nyalandu

The Tanzanian deputy minister of tourism and natural resources, Lazaro Nyalandu, is someone who thinks ahead as well as being [...]

Subscribers only 30.08.2013

Somalia
Farah Sheikh Abdiqadir

The Somalian Secretary of State to the Presidency, Farah Sheikh Abdiqadir, has been given a blank cheque by President Hassan [...]

Subscribers only 30.08.2013

Kenya
Francis Kimemia

The successive trials at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague of Vice President William Ruto and President Uhuru [...]

Subscribers only 30.08.2013

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