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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
KACC investigates a minister

The management practice of the Minister of Education Sam Ongeri could soon be the subject of an investigation by the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 13.11.2009

Tanzania
Dar es Salaam

The squabble between two businessmen in the Chama cha Mapindunzi [...]

Subscribers only Politics 13.11.2009

Ethiopia
An Ethiopian town under high surveillance

In the afternoon and evening of 3 November, the town [...]

Subscribers only 13.11.2009

Tanzania
Norway interested in oil in Zanzibar

In July the Zanzibar government decided to take over the [...]

Subscribers only 13.11.2009

Spotlight | Sudan
Total’s Busy American Lobbyist

After working for three assistant secretaries for African affairs in the State Department, Robert Cabelly now finds himself facing the prospect of 20 years in jail. On Oct. 27, the Justice Department accused him of breaching American sanctions against Sudan [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.11.2009

Somalia
Security Firms Back Up Explorers

Private security concerns are working hand in glove with Puntland's government to accelerate oil exploration in the breakaway province.

Subscribers only Energy 03.11.2009

Kenya
The Lions Won’t Mate

Canada’s Lion Energy (formerly Raytec) won’t buy out a company [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.11.2009

Uganda | Kampala
Johnnie Carson

Johnnie Carson, the assistant secretary of state for African affairs, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.11.2009

Kenya
The 2012 election divides PNU

The MPs from the Central Province (from the Kikuyuand related ethnic groups) who are members of the Party of National [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.10.2009

Ethiopia
Fisticuffs in Addis Ababa Majlis

Three officials in the Addis Ababa Islamic Council who were sacked last week feel they were victims of a political purge.

Subscribers only Politics 30.10.2009

Kenya
Raila Odinga tries to charm Paris

The Kenyan Prime Minister wants French help to build a nuclear reactor, so he tried a charm offensive during his official visit to Paris this month.

Subscribers only Politics 30.10.2009

Tanzania
Edward Hosea on the way out

The head of the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) will be the target of MPs in the new Parliamentary session that begins this week.

Subscribers only Politics 30.10.2009

Tanzania
Multitude of candidates in Zanzibar

The race has already started for the 2010 presidential election in Zanzibar. There is a plethora of CCM candidates because Amani Abeid Karume cannot run.

Subscribers only Politics 30.10.2009

Kenya
Pius Ngugi's aims on the Kenya Planters Cooperative Union (KPCU)

A group of Kikuyu businessmen wants to buy 80% of the Kenya Planters Cooperative Union, a large coffee producer currently in liquidation.

Subscribers only 30.10.2009

Sudan
After the froth come the soft drinks

The International Finance Corp is to fund Southern Sudan Beverages' plans to expand in Juba.

Subscribers only 30.10.2009

Djibouti
CMA CGM bows out

The port of Doraleh has become too expensive for the French shipping company. It is moving its container transhipment service to Oman.

Subscribers only 30.10.2009

Ethiopia
Ejigayehu Beyene

The Abune (patriarch) of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC), Paulos Gebre Yohannes, may well have good reason to believe that [...]

Subscribers only 30.10.2009

Somalia, United Kingdom
Omar A. Ali Sharmarke

The Prime Minister of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke has proved this week to [...]

Subscribers only 30.10.2009

Ethiopia
NGOs obliged to reduce their footprint in Ethiopia

The local NGO Land Mine Action, which provides help for [...]

Subscribers only 30.10.2009

Uganda
The donors strengthen their surveillance of Uganda

The Joint Assessment Framework (JAF), adopted jointly at the beginning [...]

Subscribers only 30.10.2009

Sudan
The African Union’s recommendations for Darfur

The African Union (AU) High Level Panel of the on [...]

Subscribers only 30.10.2009

Somalia
CSS Global

The American company CSS Global, a subsidiary of CSS Alliance [...]

Subscribers only 30.10.2009

Tanzania
Export Trading Group

The Export Trading Group (ETG), owned by three East African [...]

Subscribers only 30.10.2009

Tanzania
International Consulting Corp.

Based in Naples, Florida and headed by Flavia L. Hauser, [...]

Subscribers only 30.10.2009

Sudan
Total

The shadow of the French oil company has turned up [...]

Subscribers only 30.10.2009

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