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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Ethiopia
Girma Wolde Giorgis

Elected by parliament on October 8, Ethiopia's new president is an independent MP of 76 who doubles as the vice-president [...]

Subscribers only 12.10.2001

Kenya
All the President's Young Turks

By naming Uhuru Kenyatta as MP and Raymond Matiba, the son of his worst enemy, as head of the Kenya [...]

Subscribers only Politics 12.10.2001

Eritrea
Fighting Breaks Out Within Army

According to a script comparable to the one which ripped through the government coalition of neighboring Ethiopia several months ago, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 12.10.2001

Document | Kenya
Government on Trial before Comesa

At the end of next week, the Kenyan government will be on trial at Lusaka's court of justice, dependent on [...]

Subscribers only 12.10.2001

Kenya
Patrick Lumumba Otieno

A constitutionalist lawyer has been chosen to lead the secretariat in the Constitution Review Commission of Kenya (CRCK) headed by [...]

Subscribers only 12.10.2001

Kenya
New Mining Legislation Still Awaited

Kenya’s mining industry was struck a body-blow when the Nairobi High Court, in response to a lawsuit filed by environmental [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.10.2001

East Africa
EIB Gives Nod to Australian Operators

The European Investment Bank is pouring money increasingly into mining projects in English-speaking Africa but it isn’t doing so through [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.10.2001

Kenya
Lojomon Kipsang Biwott

After holding the post in a temporary capacity for a year, Lojomon Kipsang Biwott was recently confirmed as commissioner of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.10.2001

Tanzania
New Twist in Bulyanhulu Saga

A human rights organization has called on the Canadian government [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.10.2001

Spotlight | Eritrea
Eritrea: Trial of Strength with the EU

Two weeks after having shone during a meeting with donors in Asmara, President Isaias Afwerki has driven his country into a serious diplomatic crisis with the European Union.

Subscribers only Politics 05.10.2001

Ethiopia
Gidada's Term Ends Amid OPDO Quarrels

It's with an ever-stronger, and ever more critical, voice that Negaso Gidada is spending his final days as president of [...]

Subscribers only Politics 05.10.2001

Kenya
Uhuru Kenyatta

By naming the eldest son of the late President Jomo Kenyatta an MP on October 3, Kenya's head of state [...]

Subscribers only 05.10.2001

Uganda
Little Trust Between Bank and MPs

The main obstacle to the World Bank going ahead with an $11.7 million financing plan for Uganda's financial sector, planned [...]

Subscribers only 05.10.2001

Tanzania
Fierce Debate on ATC Privatization

The leadership and the personnel of the Air Tanzania Corporation (ATC) have opposing views concerning the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) [...]

Subscribers only 05.10.2001

Djibouti, Somalia
Ismaïl Goulal Boudine

On October 1, Djibouti's ambassador to Somalia presented his credentials to Abdiqassim Salad Hassan, the president of Mogadishu's Transitional National [...]

Subscribers only 05.10.2001

Kenya
Candidates for Regional Parliament

Kenya's political parties will wait for the last moment before the October 31 deadline to choose their representatives to the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 05.10.2001

Ethiopia, European Union
Yves Gazzo

A doctor in economic science from the universities of Paris and Montpellier and specializing in rural economics, the European Commission's [...]

Subscribers only 05.10.2001

France, Kenya
JEAN-CLAUDE GAYSSOT

France's equipment, transportation, and housing minister is to visit Kenya [...]

Subscribers only 05.10.2001

Ethiopia
Mecca Pilgrims Criticize Saudi Embassy

Muslim Ethiopians heading to Mecca on pilgrimage have criticized the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 05.10.2001

Tanzania
New Exploration Push

Long dormant and overshadowed by the success of drilling on Songo Songo, exploration operations have slowly begun gathering steam anew [...]