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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Kenya:Lucy Kibaki, the Iron Lady

After keeping a low profile during the first half of 2010, the Kenyan First Lady has once again become the boss in the State House.

Free access Politics 10.09.2010

Uganda
Door open for Rwandan rebels

Congolese and Rwandan opposition organisations are planning to hold a meting in Kamapala soon. But will President Yoweri Museveni allow it?

Subscribers only Politics 10.09.2010

Ethiopia
The old guard is still at the helm

Only a very tiny number of the leaders of the parties making up the governing coalition were changed during the recent party conventions.

Subscribers only Politics 10.09.2010

Ethiopia
The TPLF is a family affair

The wife of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi this week made her entry onto the executive committee of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).

Subscribers only Politics 10.09.2010

Somalia
An Islamist hotbed in Puntland

Puntland, which already has to contend with marine piracy off its shores, now has to fight an Islamist hotbed on its border with Somaliland.

Subscribers only Politics 10.09.2010

Ethiopia
Addis Ababa

After being invited to represent Africa at the G20 summit [...]

Subscribers only Politics 10.09.2010

Kenya
Muslims in Kenya get a new weekly magazine

Abdulswalmad Nassir, already the owner of the Islamic radio station [...]

Subscribers only 10.09.2010

Ethiopia
EPRP sticks out in Ethiopia

On 1st September this year, stickers carrying the logo of [...]

Subscribers only 10.09.2010

Uganda
Museveni welcomes Sudanese rebels in Uganda

According to a Middle East diplomat based in Kampala, the [...]

Subscribers only 10.09.2010

Somalia
TFG increasingly weak in Somalia

The Transitional Federal Government (TFG) is going through a constant [...]

Subscribers only 10.09.2010

Tanzania
Kokanee Minerals

The Canadian junior mining company Kokanee Mineral has taken an [...]

Subscribers only 10.09.2010

Uganda
Short End of Stick for Regions

A new version of draft oil legislation promises only a fraction of petroleum revenue to the producer areas.

Free access Energy 31.08.2010

Sudan
Southerner Against Split

During a private visit to Washington in late August, the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.08.2010

Uganda
Tullow Loses Kingfisher

Uganda still hasn’t confirmed Tullow Oil’s acquisition of the shares [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.08.2010

Uganda | Vienna
Simon D'Ujanga

Simon D'Ujanga, Uganda's state secretary for energy, will attend a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.08.2010

Eritrea, Ethiopia
Asmara to unite Ethiopian opposition

The Eritrean President has revived the idea of a united Ethiopian opposition to counter the Ethiopian government's similar manoeuvres against him.

Subscribers only Politics 27.08.2010

Kenya
Green light for port in Lamu

President Mwai Kibaki is applying pressure for a ceremony to lay the foundation stone of the new port in Lamu to be held at the beginning of next year.

Subscribers only 27.08.2010

Kenya
The Kenyattas to relaunch People Daily

The family of the Minister for Finance Uhuru Kenyatta wants to restyle the People Daily newspaper which it has just purchased from the family of Kenneth Matiba.

Subscribers only 27.08.2010

Tanzania
Sogea-Satom at the centre of tug-of-war

A Mbeya local councillor has declared war on the French company Sogea-Satom.

Subscribers only 27.08.2010

Djibouti, France
René Forceville

The French Ambassador to Djibouti, Dominique Decherf is about to retire after an extensive career. His replacement, René Forceville, who [...]

Subscribers only 27.08.2010

France, Uganda
Aline Kuster-Ménager

A new Ambassador of France will soon take up her functions in Uganda to replace René Forceville who will move [...]

Subscribers only 27.08.2010

Kenya
Joseph Nkaissery

The Assistant Minister for Defence, retired General Joseph Nkaissery, would seem to have a rosy political future ahead of him [...]

Subscribers only 27.08.2010

Sudan
PricewaterhouseCoopers

The consulting company PricewaterhouseCoopers Associate Africa in partnership with the [...]

Subscribers only 27.08.2010

Eritrea
Sunridge Gold

As from September, the Canadian mining company Sunridge Gold Corporation [...]

Subscribers only 27.08.2010

Sudan
Star Petroleum

The firm Star Petroleum, which is registered in Luxemburg and [...]

Subscribers only 27.08.2010

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