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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Ethiopia
Addis Ababa

The Ethiopian government has managed to push Seye Abraha into [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.05.2011

Djibouti, Ethiopia
Stratex, a key explorer for Thani Ashanti

On the strength of the operational partnership it sealed in January with Thani Ashani, Stratex International is going to kick [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.05.2011

Sudan
USD 187 million for Hassai

La Mancha Resources, listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, needs [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.05.2011

Rwanda
Ruzizi 3 inches ahead

The identity of companies pre-qualified to build a new dam on the Ruzizi river ought to be announced shortly by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.05.2011

Uganda
The power of promising electricity

With anti-government demonstrations in Uganda’s biggest cities on the rise, President Yoweri Museveni is promising to bring electricity to new parts of the country.

Subscribers only Energy 10.05.2011

Uganda
South Korea to open embassy

As part of its strategy to establish itself in Africa [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.05.2011

Rwanda
Contour raising funds

A decision by the World Bank ’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.05.2011

South Sudan, Uganda
McFarlane Associates

Former National Security Advisor to Ronald Reagan, Robert McFarlane is [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.05.2011

Kenya | Nairobi
Galib Virani

Galib Virani, a member of the board of directors of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.05.2011

Kenya
Kenyatta's journalists out in the cold

The informal group of journalists formed to advise Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta on his media strategy is about to be disbanded.

Free access Politics 29.04.2011

Somalia, Somaliland
Two ministers on the way out

For very different reasons, the finance minister and his opposite number at the interior, may soon be obliged to leave the government of Hargeisa.

Subscribers only Politics 29.04.2011

Kenya
Internal strife at Samuel Macharia’s

The monopoly of the media magnate Samuel Kamau Macharia is being rocked by splits in its upper echelons.

Subscribers only Politics 29.04.2011

Kenya, Uganda
Amama Mbabazi says no to Saitoti

Kampala is still opposing the plan to send several Kenyans back to Nairobi to be put on trial on terrorism charges.

Subscribers only Politics 29.04.2011

Kenya
NOCK wants its share of Shell

The Kenyan government is tempted to put conditions on the proposed purchase by Helios Investment Partners and the British trader [...]

Subscribers only 29.04.2011

Ethiopia
Everybody has to pay

Meles Zenawi wants to make his project for a large dam into a national cause. He will obtain its funding by tapping companies and individuals.

Subscribers only 29.04.2011

Kenya
Green light for Cemtech cement works

After being blocked by red tape for several months, the Indian group Sanghi hopes soon to be able to start construction of its Pokot Cement Factory.

Subscribers only 29.04.2011

Kenya
Fuel price hike sets ERC ablaze

The CEO of the Energy Regulatory Commission, Kaburu Mwirichia and the permanent secretary of the ministry in charge, Patrick Nyoike, are at loggerheads.

Subscribers only 29.04.2011

France, Kenya
Eric Duédal

On post at the French permanent mission to the United Nations in New York since 2007, Eric Duédal, 57, will [...]

Subscribers only 29.04.2011

Guinea, Madagascar
Mahmoud Thiam

In less than a year, Guinea’s former Minister for Mining, Mahmoud Thiam, became an unfailing supporter of the Madagascan Transition [...]

Subscribers only 29.04.2011

Kenya
Raphael Tuju

It is becoming increasingly clear that President Mwai Kibaki does not want to put all his eggs into the same [...]

Subscribers only 29.04.2011

Djibouti
Maple Transport

The Ethiopian company Green International Logistic Services (GILS) has just [...]

Subscribers only 29.04.2011

Uganda
ZK Advertising

The Tanzanian advertising company owned by Zadock Enock Koola has [...]

Subscribers only 29.04.2011

Kenya
Base Resources

The Kenyan government is believed to be intending to give [...]

Subscribers only 29.04.2011

Somalia
Halliday Finch

A new security company, Halliday Finch, is interested in Somalia, [...]

Subscribers only 29.04.2011

Tanzania
Iris Corp

A Malaysian company that tried unsuccessfully to enter the Somalian [...]

Subscribers only 29.04.2011

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