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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Djibouti
Paris Breaks Open its Piggy Bank

Competing against the Americans and the Germans, France was obligated to double its contributions to maintain its military presence.

Subscribers only Politics 16.05.2003

Ethiopia
Failures of the Anti-Corruption Fight

The anti-corruption commission suffered new setbacks and was publicly accused by the president of the Federal High Court.

Subscribers only Politics 16.05.2003

Ethiopia
Dressing Up and Embezzling Funds

Before being sued for bad management, the former general manager of the Construction and Business Bank had conducted an audit on possible embezzlement in his establishment.

Subscribers only 16.05.2003

Kenya
No South Africans in Standard

NAIL's financial difficulties put an end to the South African company's plan to invest in Standard Group.

Subscribers only 16.05.2003

Uganda
An IMF Banking Audit

While the biannual Consultative Group Meeting is taking place with donors in Kampala, the International Monetary Fund is making a severe assessment of the Ugandan banking system.

Subscribers only 16.05.2003

Tanzania
Reorganization at Tanesco

The national electricity company, which has been managed for a year by South African firm Net-Group Solutions, is preparing to reduce its workforce and multiply its subcontractors.

Subscribers only 16.05.2003

Ethiopia | BTP
MIDROC's Expansion into Building Materials

Saudi magnate Mohamed Hussein Al Amoudi's group Midroc Ethiopia is striving to launch new plans for building-material manufacturing plants worth [...]

Subscribers only 16.05.2003

Africa, United Kingdom
Valerie Amos

Valerie Amos, who was named Secretary of State for International Development in Tony Blair's government after Clare Short's resignation early [...]

Subscribers only 16.05.2003

Kenya
Makau Mutua

Makua Mutua, a 48 year-old law professor at New York University's Buffalo College, where he also directs the center for [...]

Subscribers only 16.05.2003

Ethiopia | ADDIS ABABA
Contingency Funds for TPLF Members

The Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF, ruling party) will set [...]

Subscribers only Politics 16.05.2003

Kenya | STAR PETROLEUM INTERNATIONAL
Two Australian Oil Companies in Kenya

The Australian oil company Woodside Energy Ltd has just joined [...]

Subscribers only 16.05.2003

Kenya | TELAIR COMMUNICATIONS
The Telephone Company Will Pay For its License in Nairobi

The company Telair Communications, whose capital is 30% held by [...]

Subscribers only 16.05.2003

East Africa
Francis Atwoli

The secretary general of the Kenyan COTU (Central Organization of [...]

Subscribers only 16.05.2003

Ethiopia
Kuma Demksa

The former president of the regional State of Oromia Kuma [...]

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East Africa
Mastin M. Robeson

Brigadier general Mastin M. Robeson will take the helm of [...]

Subscribers only 16.05.2003

Tanzania
Gold Field Takes Lakota's Bait

The strategy of Canadian junior Lakota Resources in buying up strategic property around the Bulyanhulu mine in Tanzania has begun [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.05.2003

Tanzania
African Eagle Seeks Listing on AIM

The British junior African Eagle Resources, formerly Twigg Minerals, plans [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.05.2003

Eritrea | FINANCES
Difficult to be Independent in Eritrea

The head of Gash Investment Company in Eritrea was arrested by governmental security agents in Asmara three months ago, and [...]

Subscribers only 09.05.2003

Tanzania
Victory for Africa Assistance

Africa Assistance (AA), a private company of investigators based in East Africa, just claimed victory with the May 6 decision [...]