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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
Ethiopian Experts Sent to Sudan

The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCO) sent ten experts to Sudan to carry out a feasibility study on the electrical [...]

Subscribers only 11.04.2003

Tanzania
An Investment Promotion Conference in Tanzania

The Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) and the trade department at [...]

Subscribers only 11.04.2003

Kenya
Samson Chemai

Samson Chemai, a telecommunications engineer-turned-diplomat, has just been named president of the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA). After beginning his career [...]

Subscribers only 04.04.2003

Burundi, South Africa
Sipho Binda

The South African major general Sipho Binda will lead the next African mission to Burundi. At the request of the [...]

Subscribers only 04.04.2003

Tanzania
Miners Can Unionize in Tanzania

Two previously-reticent mining companies finally agreed to authorize their workers to unionize, as allowed for in Tanzanian law. An agreement [...]

Subscribers only 04.04.2003

Uganda
Kodak Transfers from Kenya to Uganda

The company Kodak Kenya Ltd (KKL) is in the process of transferring part of its Nairobi operations to Kampala. It [...]

Subscribers only 04.04.2003

European Union, Kenya
The European Parliament Debates a Project

The controversy over the impact of building the road crossing the Kenyan Westlands has just returned to the European parliament. [...]

Subscribers only Politics 04.04.2003

Ethiopia
The FCO is Concerned About Its Ambassador's Optimism

The activism of the British ambassador to Addis Ababa, Myles Wickstead, in favor of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's regime has [...]

Subscribers only Politics 04.04.2003

Djibouti
New Loan from the IDA

On April 10, the International Development Association (IDA, World Bank branch) is expected to grant a supplementary $6 million loan [...]

Subscribers only 04.04.2003

Uganda
The IMF's Fears

The rise in military expenses and the lack of transparency in the management of Ugandan public finances irritates the IMF.

Subscribers only 04.04.2003

Kenya
South Africans in the Media

A South African company plans to enter the media sector in Kenya by buying shares and launching a daily newspaper.

Subscribers only 04.04.2003

Kenya
Competing for a Contract

A half-dozen international firms will compete for a contract to inspect Kenyan imports before shipment.

Subscribers only 04.04.2003

Ethiopia
A Swiss Fund Invests in Coffee

A small Swiss investment fund has formed an alliance with two firms close to the Ethiopian power to build a coffee processing unit.

Subscribers only 04.04.2003

Eritrea, Ethiopia
A New War for Badme?

The tension is seriously mounting in the Tigray regional state (North Ethiopia) over the border-delineation process with Eritrea. The Addis [...]

Subscribers only Politics 04.04.2003

Kenya
George Muhoho, Peter Kariuki, Mahamoud Mohammed

Some recent nominations by President Mwai Kibaki have appeared as [...]

Subscribers only 04.04.2003

Ethiopia
Kebede Temesgen

The president of the Bank of Abyssinia, Tekle Alemneh, had [...]

Subscribers only 04.04.2003

Ethiopia | SOGEA
A Bad Memory in Ethiopia

The Ethiopian government is still looking for a way to [...]

Subscribers only 04.04.2003

Kenya | WORLD BANK
Aid to Free Primary Education in Kenya

The International Development Association (IDA, World Bank branch) initiated a [...]

Subscribers only 04.04.2003

Kenya, United States | NAIROBI/WASHINGTON
The U.S. Army Recruits Green-Card Holders

In addition to the two Kenyan drivers jailed in Iraq [...]

Subscribers only Politics 04.04.2003

Sudan
Talisman Could Face Trial

Only weeks after disposing of its stake in the Greater Nile Petroleum Corporation in Sudan, the Canadian firm Talisman could [...]