Spotlight | Uganda
Museveni in the Starting Blocks Again
President Yoweri Museveni is preparing to call a constitutional referendum in 2004 to obtain the right for a third consecutive mandate
President Yoweri Museveni is preparing to call a constitutional referendum in 2004 to obtain the right for a third consecutive mandate
The Israeli minister of foreign affairs, Silvan Shalom, is set to go to Addis Ababa soon to meet with members [...]
Concurring information indicates that military preparations are taking place on the Ethiopian side for the possibility of another armed conflict [...]
Negative reactions are starting to surface in Ethiopia over the growing influence of Wahabism, a strict Islamist doctrine inspired by [...]
Negotiations between Khartoum and the SPLA have entered the final phase, but are again coming up against stumbling blocks.
Several companies are interested in the privatization of 70% of the capital of the Uganda Dairy Corporation Ltd (UDC), and [...]
The wife of Petros Solomon, the former Eirtean minister of foreign affairs held in secret for two years with his [...]
The Kenyan government this week opened a consulate in Hong Kong and Macau (China). During a ceremony on December 30 [...]
The Tanzanian government decided to move from December 22, 2003 to January 14, 2004 the session to open bids from [...]
While it praises the efforts of the Sudanese government, the IMF is questioning Khartoum's inability to reduce its foreign debt.
The Kenyan government is undertaking significant infrastructure work in President Mwai Kibaki's native region and its surroundings.
A North Korean firm offered to construct a building in Kampala for the Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Movement.
The Eastern Africa Association (EAA), an employers' organization based in [...]
The International Development Association (IDA, World Bank branch) plans to [...]
The Canadian company Barrick Gold Corp. this week signed a [...]
The African Microfinance Network (Afmin), which is headquartered in Abidjan [...]
A new Eritrean diplomat has defected. Abdella Mohamed Ali, the [...]
The Chinese minister of foreign affairs, Li Zhaoxing, is set to tour several African countries next week. He plans to [...]
The victory of its candidate during a legislative by-election gave energy to the anesthetized opposition.
A new daily newspaper, called Le National, will be launched in January 2004 by Naina Andriantsitohaina, the chairman of NIAG [...]
The company OGMA-Industria Aeronautica de Portugal (state conglomerate of the Portuguese military) decided to declare bankruptcy of its affiliate Industria [...]
The South African government has just issued a request for intervention to companies interested in supplying container scanners for ports, [...]
The Mauritian prime minister, Paul Bérenger, completed a minor ministerial reorganization last week, in which the most significant change was [...]
The head of the company APB Consulting returned to Antananarivo in mid-December after a trip to Washington intended to prepare [...]
An incident involving two members of the presidential security team in Fianarantsoa has presented a strange mix of all kinds.
An agreement on the management of customs, the transitional budget, the future legislative elections, and various security provisions was approved in Moroni last week.
The Zimbabwean authorities threw themselves into a new wrestling match with the head of Econet Wireless and the Daily News.
Two groups specializing in registering offshore firms and de-taxation are at war over getting their hands on the Anjouan label.
The mission that the Mouvement des entreprises de France (Medef-International) [...]
The company Kallman Worldwide, directed by Tom Kallman and based [...]
To wrap up negotiations with the Mozambican government over starting [...]
The Agence française du développement (AFD) used strongman tactics to [...]
The European Union's trade commissioner is set to visit Mauritius [...]
Beginning February 1, 2004, the South African Sunday Times will [...]
The Zimbabwean government last week named the first two provincial [...]
The draft bill foreseeing the creation and regulation of complementary [...]
The general prosecutor of Mozambique, Joaquim Madeira, named a new [...]