When colonel Kiiza Besigye announced in Kampala on October 30 he would be standing in the next presidential election, he not only gave the starting signal for Uganda's general election campaign in 2001 but also positioned himself as head of [.
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According to information collected by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, a secret meeting of senior Tigrayan army officers and officials of [...]
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Head of state Robert Mugabe got directly involved in calling ZANU-PF (governmental) MPs to order in a bid to prevent [...]
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The victory of president Benjamin Mkapa and the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party in the general elections on October [...]
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After facilitating the creation of a united front of Ethiopian Oromo opponents’ organizations (ION 920), the Eritrean authorities have now [...]
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The meeting of the tripartite commission charged with elaborating the Comoros’ new constitution, initially scheduled for about October 26, has [...]
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The South African justice ministry has named an Equality Review [...]
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Thanks to collaboration with state-owned Djibouti Telecom, the Djibouti government [...]
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The Malagasy authorities decided this week to postpone application of a new fee on maritime trade that was to have [...]
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After using the legal system to win a cellular telephone license before establishing Zimbawe's biggest subscriber network, the Econet Wireless [...]
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International Monetary Fund experts who analyzed the financial results of the Djibouti government at the end of July are reported [...]
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Scalded in September by an article in The Economist which was very critical of the conditions laid down for the [...]
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The privatization of Telkom Kenya involving the sale of 49% of its equity and the management concession of Kenya Railways [...]
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The South African parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (chaired by Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) MP Gavin Woods) fell in [...]
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Mauritian prime minister Anerood Jugnauth is to name his political adviser Prem Nababsing to head the Board of Investment, in [...]
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After the adoption of an IMF credit line in July [...]
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The former head of regional cooperation department in the Mauritian foreign ministry has been picked to succeed Kailash Ruhee director [...]
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South Africa’s former ambassador to France is no longer with Molope, the enterprise headed by her friend Cyril Ramaphosa and [...]
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A new Australian ambassador to Kenya will arrive shortly to replace Philip Green who has held the post for around [...]
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The director general of Societe d’Etudes, de Construction et de Reparation Navales (SECREN) in Antsiranana (formerly Diego Suarez), Jean Robert [...]
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The Uganda Export Promotion Board's latest annual report underlined the problems that Uganda's exporters are facing in Rwanda, the country's [...]
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As with each change of government on the island, several ambassadors are going to see their jobs moved. Once tipped [...]
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Angola and Mozambique are at each other’s throats over Mozambican head of state Joaquim Chissano‘s position on the need for [...]
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Roland Etroy, head of the Societe Generale d'Entreprises Electromecaniques (SGEEM), [...]
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The South African firm Murray and Roberts (M&R) has just [...]
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The Awate.Com site which took the name of a precursor [...]
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On Oct. 28 Mozambique president Joaquim Chissano fired the deputy [...]
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The commander of the Uganda army, major general Jeje Odongo, [...]
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The Malagasy ambassador to Mauritius, Paul Andre Tsilanizara, has just [...]
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