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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
A Handful of New Ambassadors

President Mwai Kibaki proceeded to name a dozen new ambassadors on January 6. In addition to Peter Nicholas Rateng Oginga [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.01.2004

Africa
A Replacement for Kansteiner in the United States

According to the Lettre du Continent (Indigo Publications), the deputy administrator for Africa at the United States Agency for International [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.01.2004

Ethiopia
Oromos are Riled Up

It has been 10 years since the Oromo community in Addis Ababa has been as riled as it is this [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.01.2004

Kenya
Domestic Battle at the State House

President Mwai Kibaki's bigamy, which was an open secret in his native region, has now become a real state affair.

Subscribers only Politics 09.01.2004

Tanzania
Second Gold Mine for Barrick Gold

Pangea Goldfields, an affiliate of Canada's leading gold company Barrick Gold, has just signed an agreement with Tanzania's mines ministry [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.01.2004

Uganda
Big Cash Input for Mines

The World Bank, the Nordic Development Fund and the African [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.01.2004

Spotlight | Uganda
Museveni in the Starting Blocks Again

President Yoweri Museveni is preparing to call a constitutional referendum in 2004 to obtain the right for a third consecutive mandate

Subscribers only Politics 02.01.2004

Ethiopia
Visit by the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs

The Israeli minister of foreign affairs, Silvan Shalom, is set to go to Addis Ababa soon to meet with members [...]

Subscribers only Politics 02.01.2004

Eritrea, Ethiopia
Military Preparations

Concurring information indicates that military preparations are taking place on the Ethiopian side for the possibility of another armed conflict [...]

Subscribers only Politics 02.01.2004

Ethiopia
The Fear of Wahabism

Negative reactions are starting to surface in Ethiopia over the growing influence of Wahabism, a strict Islamist doctrine inspired by [...]

Subscribers only Politics 02.01.2004

Sudan
Stumbling Blocks

Negotiations between Khartoum and the SPLA have entered the final phase, but are again coming up against stumbling blocks.

Subscribers only Politics 02.01.2004

Uganda | DAIRY
Privatization Project in Uganda

Several companies are interested in the privatization of 70% of the capital of the Uganda Dairy Corporation Ltd (UDC), and [...]

Subscribers only 02.01.2004

Eritrea
Aster Yohannes

The wife of Petros Solomon, the former Eirtean minister of foreign affairs held in secret for two years with his [...]

Subscribers only 02.01.2004

Hong Kong, Kenya
Tam Wing Ku

The Kenyan government this week opened a consulate in Hong Kong and Macau (China). During a ceremony on December 30 [...]

Subscribers only 02.01.2004

Tanzania
Competition for Passports

The Tanzanian government decided to move from December 22, 2003 to January 14, 2004 the session to open bids from [...]

Subscribers only 02.01.2004

Sudan
Debt Remains a Problem

While it praises the efforts of the Sudanese government, the IMF is questioning Khartoum's inability to reduce its foreign debt.

Subscribers only 02.01.2004

Kenya
Kibaki Develops His Native Region

The Kenyan government is undertaking significant infrastructure work in President Mwai Kibaki's native region and its surroundings.

Subscribers only 02.01.2004

Uganda
Offer from a North Korean Firm

A North Korean firm offered to construct a building in Kampala for the Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Movement.

Subscribers only 02.01.2004

East Africa | EAA
An Employers' Association with Wind in its Sails in East Africa

The Eastern Africa Association (EAA), an employers' organization based in [...]

Subscribers only 02.01.2004

Ethiopia | WORLD BANK
A $120 million Loan Project for Ethiopia

The International Development Association (IDA, World Bank branch) plans to [...]

Subscribers only 02.01.2004

Tanzania | BARRICK GOLD CORP.
A New Mine in Tanzania

The Canadian company Barrick Gold Corp. this week signed a [...]

Subscribers only 02.01.2004

Ethiopia
The African Microfinance Network

The African Microfinance Network (Afmin), which is headquartered in Abidjan [...]

Subscribers only 02.01.2004

Eritrea
A new Eritrean diplomat has defected

A new Eritrean diplomat has defected. Abdella Mohamed Ali, the [...]

Subscribers only 02.01.2004

Kenya
Fraud at KPLC

An audit of the Kenya Power and Lighting Company that was ordered early this year by Mwai Kibaki's government following [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.12.2003

Tanzania | net group solution (pty)
Second Contract for Net Group?

Manager of the state-owned utility Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.12.2003

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