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Eastern Africa and the Horn

South Sudan
Africom read to establish in Juba

United States Africa Command (Africom) is now waiting only for the official request from President Salva Kiir after the South [...]

Subscribers only Politics 17.06.2011

Ethiopia, Sudan
Meles Zenawi wary of Omar al Bashir

Addis Ababa is alarmed by the contacts between Ethiopian opponents and Sudanese officials. Khartoum, for its part, does not appreciate Ethiopian military aid for South Sudan.

Subscribers only Politics 17.06.2011

Djibouti
Proof that IOG feared he might lose

A document purporting to be from the presidency reveals the extent that the Head of State’s team was worried about the outcome of the presidential election in April.

Free access Politics 17.06.2011

Kenya
Nairobi

The head of the French economic mission in Kenya and [...]

Subscribers only Politics 17.06.2011

South Sudan
Juba

The Dutch former minister for development aid, Agnes van Ardenne, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 17.06.2011

Djibouti
Djibouti

The three former ministers, Yacin Elmi Bouh, Abdi Ibrahim Absieh [...]

Subscribers only Politics 17.06.2011

Kenya
Oby Ezekwesili puts pressure on Uhuru Kenyatta

When they arrived for a press conference organised at the [...]

Subscribers only 17.06.2011

Ethiopia
The opposition is still under close surveillance in Ethiopia

The elderly leader of the legal opposition, Hailu Shawel, was [...]

Subscribers only 17.06.2011

Ethiopia
Drilling for potash in Ethiopia

Ethiopian Potash Corp has kicked off a 15,000 meters sampling [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.06.2011

Tanzania
Uranium One’s strategy pays off

Two years after the Russian firm JSC Atomredmetzoloto bought a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.06.2011

Uganda
Local firm pips Shell at the post

A Ugandan company well connected in political circles has beaten out Shell for a deal to supply oil products to the Jinja tank farm. It will probably restore the facility, too.

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Rwanda
Israelis to buy KP One

Israeli companies are expected to shortly reach a compromise with the government on buying the KP One project to extract methane from Lake Kivu.

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Ethiopia
Rome drops Gilgel Gibe III dam

Italy has decided to pull out of the Gilgel Gibe III project after a series of setbacks in the construction [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Uganda
Irene Muloni

Contrary to what the government indicated a few weeks ago, president Yoweri Museveni didn’t name an oil minister in the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Tanzania
Dale Rollins

The British firm Orca Exploration has hired Dale Rollins, former deputy general manager of Shell in Nigeria, a company for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

East Africa
Lake Tanganyika Sensitive

With Soco still in talks with Congo-K’s government on exploring [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Uganda
Government man in Bunyoro

For the first time, the western region of Bunyoro, which [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Kenya
EUR 55 mn for Gulf Energy

Directors of International Finance Corp, a subsidiary of the World [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Uganda | Kampala
Beatrice Atim Anywar

Beatrice Atim Anywar, a legislator from Kitgum in northern Uganda, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Uganda
Salim Saleh is very single-minded

The former general metamorphosed into a businessman, Salim Saleh, the brother of President Yoweri Museveni, is implementing the policy of [...]

Subscribers only 03.06.2011

Kenya
Essar Telecom can't take off

Despite massive investments to popularise its Yu brand, Essar Telecom Kenya is still only in number 4 position with a 3% market share in the mobile telephone sector.

Subscribers only 03.06.2011

Kenya
IFC funds Rift Valley Railways again

The IFC, which has been involved in the privatisation of the operation of the Kenya-Uganda railway since 2006, once again come to RVR’s rescue.

Subscribers only 03.06.2011

Ethiopia
Sheba Steel Mill in trouble with the law

The government wants to confiscate the largest steel factory owned by a Pakistani group accused of corruption.

Subscribers only 03.06.2011

Belgium, Kenya
Bart Ouvry

On 30 May, the Kenyan government gave its approval for the appointment of Bart Ouvry as Belgian Ambassador to Nairobi. [...]

Subscribers only 03.06.2011

Kenya
Ayub Matiiri

The Kenya National Security Advisory Committee (NSAC) which advises President Mwai Kibaki and his government on domestic security matters, will [...]

Subscribers only 03.06.2011

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