While the electoral campaign of incumbent President Didier Ratsiraka is getting off to a slow start, that of his main rival for the presidential contest of December16 has taken off at full speed. At a rate of four meetings per [.
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A former backer of dissidents in the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF), the hard core within the ruling government coalition, [...]
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In the framework of a long-term reorganization plan for the South African Police Service (SAPS), the country's 503 specialized police [...]
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A team of seven American civil servants is to study the Sudanese replies to the proposals that John Danforth put [...]
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Senior civil servants in the foreign ministry in Asmara seem to have caught the same chill that led to a [...]
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With the U.S. House of Representatives International Relations Committee's approval of the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act on November [...]
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Albeit foreign donors are opposed, Uganda's government continues to request [...]
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In order to contain the activity of the Seychelles opposition, [...]
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France Telecom is confident in prevailing in the bid for the privatization of Telecom Malagasy (Telma), the Madagascar company in [...]
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In addition to the numerous international firms having answered the bid for the attribution of a second mobile telephone license [...]
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Provocation and repression are among the reputed characteristics of Ethiopia's new commissioner of police (see page 6). Born in Adigrat, [...]
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Last week's nomination of a former journalist as ambassador to the United Kingdom has given rise to questions in Mozambique's [...]
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A member of the Haute Cour Constitutionnelle (HCC, or high constitutional court) since 1992, a 63-year-old Tsimihety from the Mahajanga [...]
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The founder of the Indian Ocean Development Holding (IODE) – who under strange circumstances bought several companies on Reunion Island, [...]
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After four years of financial setbacks, along with the resultant daily electricity cuts, the Comoro Islands' water and electricity company [...]
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For over a month an airliner that Comores Airlines leased from an Australian company (ION 969) has made none of [...]
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A specialist of radio and television projects who got into trouble in Madagascar, Ottavio Ermini is experiencing a case of [...]
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An American company which owns numerous patents for genetically modified crops has asked the Kampala authorities to allow their introduction [...]
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Seychelles residents wishing to travel abroad are finding it ever more difficult to obtain the foreign currency they need for [...]
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Following an article in The Indian Ocean Newsletter concerning the [...]
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Since the vice prime minister in charge of the budget, [...]
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Launched by former South African president Frederik Wilhelm de Klerk in 1999, the foundation that bears his name is readying [...]
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During his official visit to Maputo this week, Portugal's foreign minister is to touch on a number of bilateral issues [...]
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Eric Stauffer cannot believe that his suit against former Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam, former finance minister Xavier Luc Duval, and [...]
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Three foreign consultants will be part of the new team [...]
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The company which stands behind the pro-governmental Efoyta weekly and [...]
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A second lieutenant in the Ethiopian army's 21st corps has [...]
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