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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Eritrea
A key year for Sunridge Gold

Now that it wholly owns its Asmara project since its partner Antofagasrta Minerals SA pulled out in May, the project’s [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2012

Ethiopia
Abdel Rahim Al Keeb

Abdel Rahim Al Keeb, Libya's new prime minister, will travel [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 19.01.2012

Chad, Sudan
A first well in Darfur

The Great Sahara consortium is about to drill the first well in the Sudanese part of the Kufra basin. Oil companies in neighboring Chad are interested in the outcome.

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.2012

Ethiopia
EEPCO to land major loan

On May 24, the World Bank’s directors are going to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.2012

Kenya
MIGA guarantee for Triumph

The World Bank is poised to offer not only financial [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.2012

Ethiopia
Tewodros Ashenafi

Tewodros Ashenafi, the managing director of South West Energy (SWE) [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.2012

Uganda | Kampala
Aidan Heavey

Aidan Heavey, the chief executive of Tullow Oil, arrived in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.2012

Djibouti
IOG wants to be in control

Security during the regional elections is too important a matter for President Ismail Omar Guelleh to leave to his minister for home affairs.

Free access Politics 13.01.2012

Kenya
A book that terrifies Odinga’s friends

Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s advisors are trying by all possible ways to find out what will be contained in a book that one of their former colleagues is planning to publish.

Subscribers only Politics 13.01.2012

Uganda
The USA distrusts these generals

Two generals that President Yoweri Museveni has just redeployed were not appreciated by the United States, which plays a leading role in the fight against the LRA.

Subscribers only Politics 13.01.2012

Kenya
Odinga will not have this advisor

Hassan Omar Hassan will not be on Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s campaign team after he leaves the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.

Subscribers only Politics 13.01.2012

Somalia, United States
Farole gets a lobbyist in the USA

The President of Puntland has hired a new American lobbyist on security and counter-piracy issues.

Subscribers only Politics 13.01.2012

Ethiopia, Somalia, Somaliland
Silanyo under Meles’s influence

President Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud has appointed a young officer trained in an Ethiopian military academy to head the intelligence services.

Subscribers only Politics 13.01.2012

Kenya
Essar wants protection for KPRL

The oil distribution companies have gone to war against the proposals by Kenya Petroleum Refineries (KPRL), owned in equal shares [...]

Subscribers only 13.01.2012

Ethiopia
Access Capital puts cat among the pigeons

A report by the Ethiopian company Access Capital goes against the government line and calls for the privatisation of several State companies.

Subscribers only 13.01.2012

Kenya
Rift Valley Railways split by politics

Rift Valley Railways (RVR) CEO Brown Odengo’s political affinity to Prime Minister Raila Odinga has attracted the wrath of some of the company’s shareholders.

Subscribers only 13.01.2012

Ethiopia
Karuturi’s woes have begun

The Ethiopian ministry of agriculture is against the firm Karuturi’s plan to install thousands of Indian farmers in land it has leased in the Gambela region.

Subscribers only 13.01.2012

Kenya
Stella Kilonzo

The ever-present CEO of the Capital Markets Authority (CMA), Stella Kilonzo, who has been officially in the post since 2008 [...]

Subscribers only 13.01.2012

Israel, South Sudan
Haim Koren

The ambassador that the Israeli government has just appointed to South Sudan is a seasoned diplomat. Haim Koren, in his [...]

Subscribers only 13.01.2012

Ethiopia
Umod Ubong

The President of Gambela Regional State in the western part of the country, Umod Ubong, is like a cat on [...]

Subscribers only 13.01.2012

Ethiopia
Mengistu Haile Mariam’s book is no success

Published last month, but only became available in the United [...]

Subscribers only 13.01.2012

Djibouti
Stereau

The company Stereau, an engineering subsidiary of the French group [...]

Subscribers only 13.01.2012

Kenya
TM AM Construction Group Africa

One of the oldest construction companies in Kenya, TM AM [...]

Subscribers only 13.01.2012

Kenya
Griffin Legal Kenya

The law firm launched last year to defend Mau Mau [...]

Subscribers only 13.01.2012

Ethiopia
Allana Potash Corp

The Canadian junior mining company Allana Potash Corp has decided [...]

Subscribers only 13.01.2012

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