Discussions in Brussels this week aimed giving the European Commission a negotiating mandate for a free-trade agreement with the Republic of South Africa has, once again, split European Union member-states (ION N° 704). EU foreign ministers' failure - for the [.
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The World Bank has expressed satisfaction with the measures envisaged by the government of prime minister Mohamed Caabi El Yachroutu [...]
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Head of state Daniel arap Moi announced in Nairobi last week that a presidential economic commission had been created under [...]
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Following the completion in mid-December of an evaluation mission by international technical and financial experts, preparations for financing the project [...]
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The South African government is to issue a Call for bids shortly for the renovation and maintenance over twenty-five years [...]
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French financial agreements for 1995 for Kenya and Uganda which were initialled in the last days of December show a [...]
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The Ethiopian government this week granted a sixth mining prospecting permit to the Canadian company St Genevieve Resources Limited, of [...]
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State-owned airline Air Tanzania Corporation has just run a corporate temperature after the management chartered an aircraft from the French [...]
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According the trade counsellors' newsletter for French embassies in East Africa, four new trade trends have appeared recently in the [...]
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The Union St Aubin project for a thermal-powered electricity plant [...]
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South Africa's state-owned energy utility Eskom says it received only [...]
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Head of state Benjamin Mkapa has still not given the go-ahead to print new banknotes and coins bearing his effigy. [...]
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The government reshuffle desired by national assembly chairman Richard Andriamanjato and promised by head of state Albert Zafy shows no [...]
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Celebration of Moslems' religious feast of Aid El Fitr, which marks the end of the period of Ramadan, failed to [...]
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Discreet lobbying in Paris during the January funeral ceremonies of the late president François Mitterrand by Khartoum's special envoy (ambassador-designate [...]
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The Seychelles constitutional court this week rejected the first of three legal complaints filed by United Opposition which seek to [...]
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Acting apparently on the orders of interior minister Manuel Antonio, Mozambican police prevented defence minister Aguiar Mazula from meeting and [...]
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Head of state Nelson Mandela's diary of foreign engagements for the next few months is very heavily loaded. He is [...]
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The campaign for the presidential election, scheduled for March 6 and 16, got off to an unmarred start on February [...]
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Ethiopian head of state Negaso Gidada promoted ten officers of [...]
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The Mauritian authorities have decided to open an embassy in [...]
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France's chief of army general staff, general Amédée Marc Monchal, [...]
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A White South African chosen for his extensive experience as a banker has been appointed CEO of Development Bank of [...]
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France's senator for Isère (centrist, elected 1988, re-elected 1992) Jean Faure was elected chairman of the Senate's France, Madagascar and [...]
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The former special advisor to Comoros head of state Said Mohamed Djohar and in 1995 commercial counsellor at the Comoros [...]
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The World Bank vice president for United Nations Affairs and the secretariat since 1980, Timothy Thahane will be leaving those [...]
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France's European partners in the European Union council of ministers [...]
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The Rassemblement pour la République (senior government coalition partner) MP [...]
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The Rassemblement pour la République (senior government coalition partner) MP [...]
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