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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Other Nominations in Sight

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Subscribers only Politics 21.02.2003

Ethiopia
A Small Opposition Party Implodes

The Medhin Party (opposition in exile), once important under colonel [...]

Subscribers only Politics 21.02.2003

Kenya
Jasper Omondi Oduor

President Mwai Kibaki has just fired the boss of Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC), Samuel Gichuru, and put Jasper [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.02.2003

Ethiopia
Hailemelekot Teklegiorgis

Ethiopia's deputy defense minister, Hailemelekot Teklegiorgis, has just been named chairman of the board at Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.02.2003

Uganda
UEB's Shortfall

The break-up of Uganda Electricity Board into two companies - Uganda Electricity Generation Company run by Eskom and the Uganda [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.02.2003

Uganda
CDC in Distribution Deal?

CDC Globeleq, a wholly owned affiliate of the CDC Group [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.02.2003

Sudan
Third Round in March

The third meeting between the Sudanese government and rebel forces [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.02.2003

Tanzania | TANESCO
Regulatory Body for Sector

The Tanzania Electricity Supply Company (Tanesco), which has been managed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.02.2003

Sudan | SUDAPET
Still No Accord on Block 8

Sudan's national oil company Sudapet still hasn't reached an agreement [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.02.2003

Sudan
ONGC Covering its Posterior

After acquiring the 25% stake that Canada's Talisman held in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.02.2003

Kenya
An American's grandiose projects

An American businessman with privileged access to the United States embassy in Nairobi is involved in two grandiose projects in Kenya.

Subscribers only 14.02.2003

Kenya
French firms and AIDS

Eighteen French firms established in Kenya have just signed a charter on AIDS.

Subscribers only 14.02.2003

Djibouti
A Ugandan in the hotel industry

A Ugandan businessman has just registered a company in Djibouti in an attempt to profit from the developing hotel sector.

Subscribers only 14.02.2003

Uganda
The UEB's debts

The UEB and the three companies that succeeded it still owe large debts to the Kampala government.

Subscribers only 14.02.2003

Ethiopia
A captain of aviation goes AWOL

The head of the air force training base in Mekele fled to Yemen with his airplane last week.

Subscribers only Politics 14.02.2003

Ethiopia
Mesfin sends diplomats walking

Seyoum Mesfin succeeded in getting Western ambassadors in Addis Ababa to cancel a scheduled meeting on a controversial draft bill.

Subscribers only Politics 14.02.2003

Kenya
The president's second wife

Little-known in Kenyan media and public opinion, President Mwai Kibaki's second wife has nevertheless played an important role in his [...]

Subscribers only Politics 14.02.2003

Tanzania
The Karume family vs. the press

After several months in existence, the independent weekly Dira is already prey to the vindictiveness of President Karume's family in Zanzibar.

Subscribers only Politics 14.02.2003

Sudan
Bechir decorates a Frenchman

At the occasion of his visit to Paris for the France/Africa summit next week, president Omar Hassan el Bechir is [...]

Subscribers only Politics 14.02.2003

Somalia
The United States will host Bantou refugees

This spring, the first Somalian Bantou refugees will arrive in the United States. They will be chosen from a group [...]

Subscribers only Politics 14.02.2003

Kenya | GALLINA BLANCA
Acquisition of a foodstuffs firm in Kenya

The Spanish group Gallina Blanca has just bought 50% of [...]

Subscribers only 14.02.2003

Uganda | TRANSROAD
A firm that wants more in Uganda

The old dispute between the British firm Transroad and the [...]

Subscribers only 14.02.2003

Kenya
G. N. Macharia

This week, the Kenyan government designated G. N. Macharia to [...]

Subscribers only 14.02.2003

Ethiopia | ADDIS ABABA
A Tigrayan opponent rallies the troops

One of the founders of the Tigrayan Alliance for Democracy [...]

Subscribers only Politics 14.02.2003

Africa | ITU
Sixth forum on Africa in 2004

The International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) sixth forum on Africa will [...]

Subscribers only 14.02.2003

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