The success of the two opposition candidates of the alliance of Navin Ramgoolam's Labour Party and Paul Berenger's Mouvement Militant Mauricien in the parliamentary bye-election on January 29 is writing on the wall, a clear warning from discontented voters to [.
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When South African head of state Nelson Mandela announced on January 29 the appointment of general John George Fivaz as [...]
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The senator (Rep, Kansas) who has been returned to the US Senate regularly since November 1978, has resumed the chairmanship [...]
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After having functioned for nearly three years without a titular chief, the state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, which controls two television [...]
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Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Rep, Florida) has taken over from congressman Harry Johnston (Dem, Florida, in fact from a constituency near [...]
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The progressive cutback on money in circulation in Mogadiscio, as military contingents and civilian officials in the United Nations Operation [...]
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Delegates to the third meeting of the Seychelles-Mauritius joint cooperation commission, held in Mahe on January 31 and February first, [...]
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According to data from the Reunion Island chamber of commerce and industry (CCIR), air traffic marked another increase at Reunion's [...]
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International fund donors for Eritrea who attended the World Bank's consultative group meeting in Paris in December (ION N° 652) [...]
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Madagascar's former finance minister Jose Yvon Raserijaona, who resigned recently (ION N° 654) and is now managing director of the [...]
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Bitter conflict within Zimbabwe's Indigenous Business Development Centre (IBDC) between [...]
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The Ethiopian government is to put twenty-five state-owned supermarkets, shops [...]
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In a bid to avoid the attention of Mejertein pirates, [...]
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Due to a technical error, The Indian Ocean Newsletter reported [...]
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The Sudanese government has banned Belgian military aircraft from overflying Sudanese territory and has accused that air force of parachuting [...]
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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) Politburo finally decided this week that national vice-president Simon Muzenda will not find [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Issa militia controlling the zone around Zeila and Guerissa in western [...]
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The presence in Kenya of a number of former leaders in the old Rwandan government, who have now been accused [...]
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According to a confidential report of the Italian intelligence service submitted to the government, the murder of two Italian journalists [...]
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Petroleum and politics were in centre-stage during the visit to the United States of head of state Isaias Afwerki (ION [...]
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The anti-France anger displayed on January 20 following the French government decision to slap entry visa requirements on all Comoros [...]
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Head of state Nelson Mandela's nomination of Tom Langley, a White ultra-right personality, as the country's ambassador-designate to Portugal has [...]
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Armed units of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF, opposition) invaded the towns of Humruna and Jarte, Horo Gudru Province, for [...]
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Reacting to the campaign against Sudan by humanitarian organization Amnesty [...]
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Lieut-Gen. Bernard Norlain of France headed a hundred-strong mission to [...]
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The representative of the NGO SOS Africa who was sentenced [...]
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The editor in chief of the The Nairobi Law Monthly [...]
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The general manager of Banque Française Commerciale Océan Indien (BFC [...]
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The Eritrean foreign minister was in Egypt on January 31 [...]
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