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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Uganda
Indians in Phosphate Venture

Long held back because of the problem of displacing local inhabitants -8,000 to 10,000 people are concerned -the Osukuru Hills [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.05.2008

DRC, Tanzania
Quiet on the Tanganyika Front

Smoother relations between Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania have combined with the growing interest of oil companies to turn Lake Tanganyika into a new frontier of sorts.

Subscribers only Energy 20.05.2008

Uganda
A Power Plant for Tullow

The Irish oil company Tullow Oil has just applied for a license from Uganda’s Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) to generate [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.05.2008

Sudan
Increased Potential for Blue Nile

A Chinese joint venture has been awarded a contract to raise the level of the dam at Roseires.

Subscribers only Energy 20.05.2008

Kenya
Tamoil

The state owned Libyan concern Tamoil and India’s Essar could [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.05.2008

Tanzania
Agreement with Zanzibar

The authorities on the island of Zanzibar have finally accepted [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.05.2008

Sudan | Karthoum
Nicholas Brunet

Nicholas Brunet, director of Total Sudan, formed part of a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.05.2008

Spotlight | Sudan
The South is tempted by separatism

The second congress of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM, the dominant party in South Sudan) is being held from 15 May in Juba, a town that has not yet raised its head after the war and where there are [.

Subscribers only Politics 16.05.2008

Kenya
Lucy Kibaki stays on the sidelines

The Kenyan First Lady has all but disappeared from the public stage since the general election at the end of [...]

Subscribers only Politics 16.05.2008

Kenya
The post-Kibaki era has begun

The coalition government has only just been put in place, but some of its members are already looking to the succession of Mwai Kibaki in the 2012 election.

Subscribers only Politics 16.05.2008

Djibouti
Things hot up in the North

The mobilisation of the Djibouti army against the Eritrean incursion in the North of the country has had collateral damage.

Subscribers only Politics 16.05.2008

Kenya
Deepak Kamani negotiates amnesty

The businessman implicated in the Anglo Leasing and Finance scandal has returned to Nairobi to try to cut a deal with the authorities.

Subscribers only 16.05.2008

Sudan
Total sends delegation to Khartoum

A delegation from the French oil company Total, consisting of two people from its Paris headquarters in charge of Sudanese [...]

Free access 16.05.2008

Djibouti
An investment fund for salt

The Tunis based company Emerging Capital Partners has invested jointly with a Spanish equipment supplier in Salt Investment which is to work the Assal salt lake.

Subscribers only 16.05.2008

Ethiopia
Ermyas Amelga gets a leg up

The International Finance Corporation is to decide next month whether to take a 20% participation in the first Ethiopian leasing company.

Subscribers only 16.05.2008

Kenya
Chandaria goes into construction

The businessman now in his eighties has his eye on the large road-building contracts the government is to attribute from the month of August.

Subscribers only 16.05.2008

Sudan
Salah Abdallah Gosh

The head of the Sudanese National Security & Intelligence Service (NSIS) is feeling decidedly uncomfortable. Some members of the government [...]

Subscribers only 16.05.2008

Belgium, European Union, Uganda
Joseph Lukyamuzi

This Ugandan born Belgian economist, holder of a Masters degree from the Vrije Universiteit van Brussel (VUB) and a degree [...]

Subscribers only 16.05.2008

Ethiopia
Kassu Ilala losing steam in Ethiopia

The Minister for Public Work and Urban Development, Kassu Ilala, [...]

Subscribers only 16.05.2008

Ethiopia
What news of Tesfaye Meresa in Ethiopia?

The deputy commissioner of police of Addis Ababa, Tesfaye Meresa, [...]

Subscribers only 16.05.2008

Uganda
Celtel

The International Finance Corp (IFC, part of the World Bank) [...]

Subscribers only 16.05.2008

Djibouti
Chinatown-Djibouti

A young Djibouti businessman who first discovered Beijing in 2001 [...]

Subscribers only 16.05.2008

Tanzania | Dar Es Salaam
Accord on IGC Coal Joint Venture

Atomic Resources of Australia, 28.55% owned by IGC Resources Inc, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.05.2008

Tanzania
MDM on the AIM

As expected, (AMI N°173), MDM Engineering, which rose from MDM [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.05.2008

Kenya | Kenya
Scramble for Licenses

A number of companies are in talks with the National [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.05.2008

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