In South Africa's constitutional negotiations that opened at the end of December 1991 within the framework of CODESA, Convention for a Democratic South Africa, the tendency has been to move towards a partial compromise: the constitution will be amended to [.
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Radio Addis Ababa reported this week that the representatives of the seven political and ethnic organisations that met in Dire [...]
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The Ugandan police briefly detained last week, Cecilia Ogwal, leader of the Uganda People's Congress (UPC), the party of the [...]
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With the announcement on January 21, that the National Executive Committee of Tanzania's ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) intends to [...]
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Mozambique's rebel movement Renamo has decided to transfer its external affairs bureau next month from Nairobi to a European location, [...]
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Provisional secretary general of the Kenyan Democratic Party (DP), John Keen said on January 26 that the authorities were preparing [...]
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After seven years of voluntary exile in the United States where he was sponsored by the extreme-conservative group, the Heritage [...]
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On completion of his mission to Djibouti last week, French junior minister for foreign affairs, Alain Vivien, reiterated that the [...]
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Secretary general of the United Nations, Boutros Boutros-Ghali announced on January 28 that Somalia's interim president Ali Mahdi Mohamed and [...]
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Comoros Islands' President Said Mohamed Djohar opened a national conference in Moroni on January 24. The twenty-three political parties of [...]
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A "third force", opposed to the Djiboutian government's war logic, and also to thearmed struggle of the Front pour la [...]
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Paul Bérenger, Mauritian foreign minister, last week spent five days on an official visit to Madagascar. He met with the [...]
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Arap Doualleh who was last week reported to have been [...]
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Three more political parties have been granted legal status in [...]
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Chairman of the right-wing RPR (opposition) group in the French [...]
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In a statement published in Khartoum on January 26, the [...]
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One of Zimbabwe's leading Black businessmen, Ariston Chambati has been asked to join the Private Sector Development Research Advisory Group [...]
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Former assistant director of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), Michael James Minaar Louw (aged 52) has been appointed head of [...]
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Outgoing president of the Island's regional council, Pierre Lagourgue was the main architect of the united right-wing candidates who will [...]
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Director of the French aid fund, Caisse Française de Développement (CFD, formerly CCCE), announced this week that his organisation had [...]
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A newcomer has appeared on the horizon of independent shipping companies sailing to Reunion Island, Marship. This is a small [...]
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About thirty South African company directors travelled to Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe last week. There they signed a general [...]
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Socota Textile Mill Ltd, a private Malagasy company with one plant in Mauritius has been granted a 2.5 million ecu [...]
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Portuguese airline company, TAP is presently negotiating with airlines in Southern Africa with a view to setting up an inter-regional [...]
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According to Ethiopian Electric Light and Power Authority (EEPLA)'s general manager, Tamene Wolde Yohannes, the electricity supply to Addis Ababa [...]
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For the first time in a number of years, the Kenyan government has found itself in the position of having [...]
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A joint IMF-World Bank delegation spent a week in Madagascar from January 16 to January 24 (ION N°510), meeting the [...]
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The Ethiopian government last week signed two trade agreements with [...]
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The International Monetary Fund on January 28 granted a 484 [...]
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Several Black South African businessmen, including the chairman of the [...]
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The son of the leader of Forum for the Restoration [...]
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Contrary to the statement made by the spokesman of the [...]
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Returning from a trip to Eritrea, Italy's immigration minister said [...]
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The chairman of the Association des Amis du Somalie in [...]
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Military leader of the SPLA rebels in southern Sudan, he [...]
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A high-level Mauritian consultant who has been working for the [...]
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