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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Somalia
Hassan Abshir Farah

Sworn in this week in Mogadishu, the new prime minister of the Transitional National Government (TNG) is that government's former [...]

Subscribers only 16.11.2001

Sudan
Flurry of Hydro Projects

In addition to resuming work on the Merowe dam (AEI 304), Sudan has launched itself into a series of hydro [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.11.2001

Kenya
New Pressure on KPLC

Published last week, a World Bank report revealing that the Kenya Power and Lighting Co (KPLC) would incur a staggering [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.11.2001

Tanzania
IPT Off the Ground

The firm Independent Power Tanzania (IPT), a 70%-owned affiliate of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.11.2001

Sudan
British Land Exploration Rights

James Prior , chairman of the U.K. firm British [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.11.2001

Sudan
Talisman Charged with "Genocide."

A group of four Sudanese anti-slave militants headed by the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.11.2001

Spotlight | Somalia
Washington Versus Al Barakat

The United States government has turned its tracking the financial networks of the Islamic terrorist Osama bin Laden towards Somalia and its Awallah system of fund transfers based upon trust. During a simultaneous operation in several cities of the country [.

Subscribers only 09.11.2001

Kenya
Saitoti Backers Rally Behind Kanu Name

Should President Daniel arap Moi's project of merging his ruling Kenya African National Union (Kanu) with the National Development Party [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.11.2001

Sudan | ELECTRICITY
New BOO Power Station Near Khartoum

Last week the Sudanese government signed an Independent Power Producer (IPP) contract with a Malaysian company to build a diesel-powered [...]

Subscribers only 09.11.2001

Tanzania
How Mkapa Really Came to Drop Simba

According to the official version, Iddi Simba simply decided to submit his resignation to President Benjamin Mkapa, who duly accepted [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.11.2001

Somalia
Hassan Daher Aweys

One of the Somalians wanted by the United States (see page 1) has been one of the Islamic movement's key [...]

Subscribers only 09.11.2001

East Africa
Al Amoudi's African Telecom Business

Through the Pan African Communication Network Ltd (Paconet), Mohamed Hussein Al-Amoudi is investing massively in internet and satellite telephony in [...]

Subscribers only 09.11.2001

Ethiopia
A Sportsman to Lead the EPA

Ever since Assefa Abraha was thrown into jail on corruption charges along with several of his brothers, most notably former [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.11.2001

Ethiopia
ALEMISHET DEGIFIE

The head of the defense ministry's military department affairs has [...]

Subscribers only 09.11.2001

Kenya
PHILIP MOI

The son of President Daniel arap Moi was named honorary [...]

Subscribers only 09.11.2001

France, Sudan
SYLVAIN FOURCADE

After closing the poste d'expansion économique (PEE) of the French [...]

Subscribers only 09.11.2001

Ethiopia
An American Visit From an Old Asian Hand

The U.S. state department's new director of east African affairs [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.11.2001

Ethiopia
The Corruption Accusation Boomerangs Back

Ousted from his job because he was part of the [...]

Subscribers only 09.11.2001

Tanzania
Gold Exports to Hit $326 million in 2002

The Tanzanian government is highly optimistic about the impact of new mining legislation that went into effect six years ago. [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.11.2001

Tanzania
Bitterness Greets the Sugar Board

Two private entrepreneur organizations have come out against the prerogatives granted the nascent Sugar Board in a bill that agriculture [...]

Subscribers only 02.11.2001

Ethiopia
Juneidi Sado

The former head of the economics department of Oromiya has been named the new president of that regional state in [...]

Subscribers only 02.11.2001

Eritrea
Asmara's Hecklers Harass Hagos

A former minister who became a dissident after he turned against Eritrea’s government is not backing down despite the fact [...]

Subscribers only Politics 02.11.2001

Kenya
Wafula Wamunyinyi

After long weeks of debate within the Kenyan parliament's PIC, an opposition MP was named its chairman last week.

Subscribers only 02.11.2001

Sudan
British Missions Descend Upon Khartoum

In a situation not seen for more than a decade, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 02.11.2001

Uganda
Banff Resources Undermined by Losing Cobalt

A western-Uganda-based Banff Resources official has confirmed the Australian company's [...]

Subscribers only 02.11.2001

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