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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Eritrea
Nevsun Seeks Finance for Bisha

Nevsun Resources, which has held the mining licence for the Bishagold project, with 1 million oz of gold, since January [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.01.2008

Somalia
Oil Kerfuffle in Puntland

Amsas Consulting, a firm incorporated in Australia and headed by Ali Abdullahi, filed suit in the Puntland high court on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.01.2008

Tanzania
Power Monopoly to End?

Announced some months ago, an end to state-owned Tanesco’s monopoly over the Tanzania’s power sector is likely to take place [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.01.2008

Sudan
Merowe Operational in 2008

Four-fifths of the Merowe dam being built by Sinohydro on the Nile has been completed and the facility will start operating later this year.

Subscribers only Energy 08.01.2008

Uganda
Funding for Bujagali

The firm Bujagali Energy., which operates the project for a 250 MW dam at Bujagali on the Nile, has announced [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.01.2008

Ethiopia
World Bank for Interconnexion

The World Bank is to put up USD 41.05 million [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.01.2008

Tanzania | Clyde & Co
Dodsal's Lawyer

The United Arab Emirates group Dodsal, which is controlled by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.01.2008

Uganda | Linklaters
Advising on Bujagali

The consortium of financial institutions and development banks that lent [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.01.2008

Ethiopia
The manœuvres of the elders

Ephraim Isaac, a Falasha (Jewish Ethiopian) living in the United States who has already acted as a mediator (ION 1204) [...]

Subscribers only Politics 04.01.2008

Uganda
Buganda under top surveillance

Museveni has charged loyalist officers to control this region in the centre of the country. He is concerned about subversive activity linked to the land reform legislation.

Subscribers only Politics 04.01.2008

Tanzania
Ending Tanesco's monopoly

The government should finally bring before Parliament a bill at the end of January to deregulate the electricity generation and distribution sector.

Subscribers only 04.01.2008

Kenya
Turbulence in the airways

The post-election political agitation will aggravate the problems of Kenya Airways. Its profits for the first half of 2007 had already been well down.

Free access 04.01.2008

Uganda
Elly Karuhanga

Up to now the legal advisor to the Canadian mining company IBI Corp (gold and uranium prospecting), the lawyer Elly [...]

Subscribers only 04.01.2008

Sudan, United States
Richard Williamson

Tired of the slow progress in the Darfur situation and, it would appear, not holding the same position as the [...]

Subscribers only 04.01.2008

Ethiopia
Eyesuswork Zafu

The Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Associations (CCSA) re-elected its outgoing chairman Eyesuswork Zafu for a two year mandate on [...]

Subscribers only 04.01.2008

Tanzania
Daudi Balali

The governor of the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) has been keeping a low profile for the last few weeks. It [...]

Subscribers only 04.01.2008

Kenya
Kenya is the main buyer in Africa of American arms

A report dated 20 December 2007 intended for members of [...]

Subscribers only 04.01.2008

Tanzania
Misadventures of a minister’s son in Tanzania

The High Court of Dar es-Salaam issued an injunction on [...]

Subscribers only 04.01.2008

Ethiopia
The strongman of Ethiopian prisons

The Deputy Commissioner for Ethiopian prisons, Wedi Shambel, is a [...]

Subscribers only 04.01.2008

Kenya
Daniel arap Moi's bad decision in Kenya

The former President of Kenya made the wrong choice in [...]

Subscribers only 04.01.2008

East Africa
US servicemen’s daily allowance in East Africa

The American Administration has just published the 2008 rates for [...]

Subscribers only 04.01.2008

Sudan
Mixta Africa

(Sudan) After the Maghreb, Egypt and Senegal, the Spanish property [...]

Subscribers only 04.01.2008

Ethiopia
Oromia International Bank

(Ethiopia) A new bank will see the light of day [...]

Subscribers only 04.01.2008

Ethiopia
Yara-France

(Ethiopia) The Norwegian company Yara International, one of the world’s [...]

Subscribers only 04.01.2008

Djibouti
Yemen Airways

(Djibouti) The chairman of Yemenia (Yemen Airways), Abdul-Khaliq al-Qadi, signed [...]

Subscribers only 04.01.2008

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