The sacking of Ethiopia's deputy prime minister and defence minister Tamrat Layne from all his jobs last week is the first official recognition that corruption is gnawing within EPRDF, which has ruled in Addis Ababa since 1991.
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The level of unemployment is believed to have hit 5 percent of the working population on Mauritius, breaking a record [...]
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Following a report in Indian Ocean Newsletter (ION N° 733) that, inter alia, Roger Roland, chairman of Chambre de Commerce [...]
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About two hundred mostly French and South African businessmen attended a conference organized by the French embassy in Johannesburg on [...]
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The administration of head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim is beginning to bug international fund donors (United Nations Development [...]
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A group of rich Somalis headed by local businessman Ahmed Nour Ali Jumale this week founded a private bank in [...]
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Banco Internacional de Moçambique, which is 50 percent owned by Banco Comercial Português and is the preferred bank of the [...]
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African Development Fund, a subsidiary of African Development Bank, is expected to approve shortly a loan of a little over [...]
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The Commonwealth Development Corporation launched a capital-risk fund in Nairobi at the end of October under the name Acacia Fund [...]
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Sources report that Mozambique's state-owned utility Petromoc will undergo statute [...]
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British multinational Lonrho, which has been operative on Mauritius since [...]
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As soon as he took up his new duties as [...]
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The head of Asmara Palace Investment plc, Tuolde Tesfamariam, last [...]
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The new Sudanese ambassador to Djibouti, Sayed Sharif Ahmed Sharif, has presented his Letters of Credence to Djibouti head of [...]
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During the recent International Monetary Fund AGM, seven new officials were designated, including Ms. Dinah Z. Guti of Zimbabwe, then [...]
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According to the Berlin-based Solidarity Committee for Ethiopian Political Prisoners, the vice chairman of Democratic Movement for the Liberation of [...]
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The former foreign minister of the Ugandan government of Tito Okello Lutwa is believed to be a candidate for the [...]
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The National Democratic Alliance (opposition) recent meeting in Asmara set up two committees to implement its decision to unify its [...]
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The Sudanese authorities recovered on October 26 the F-6 jet fighter whose pilot, lieutenant Ahmed Abu Al Kassim, defected two [...]
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The municipal elections on October 27 have given the non-parliamentary opposition on Mauritius a spot of reinvigorating medicine without endangering [...]
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A Kenyan government minister admitted this week that police officers may be behind a wave of armed hold-ups in Nairobi. [...]
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Madagascar's presidential election campaign, due to be voted by universal suffrage on November 3, has gone off calmly. Except for [...]
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Head of state Yoweri Museveni this week named two new directors general to head Uganda's intelligence-collecting services, External Security Organization [...]
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The Mozambican and South African authorities are expected shortly to discuss reopening the frontier post at Pafuri, in the frontier [...]
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Head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim doesn't seem to have any luck with his French advisers: he has just [...]
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French junior housing minister Pierre André Perissol is scheduled to [...]
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Eritrea's foreign minister Petros Solomon went to Tunisia on October [...]
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After one month of industrial action, the teachers' joint trade [...]
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Zanzibar president Salmin Amour once again rejected, during a recent [...]
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As rumours on the archipelago announced the forthcoming arrival in [...]
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