Faced with a hovering financial disaster, the Seychelles government is desperately trying to refill State coffers from tax hikes without actually setting an example by administering public funds judiciously. After freezing import quotas and bumping Customs charges on new vehicle [.
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About twelve or fourteen members of Armée Nationale Djiboutienne (AND) who were arrested last week are now being interrogated by [...]
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The Ugandan authorities have begun recruiting militia who are expected to get weapons training, according to general Katumba Wamala, commanding [...]
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The organizations of Ethiopian opponents which held a conference in Paris in March 1993 (ION 604) are to meet again [...]
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Kenyan head of state Daniel arap Moi sought to defuse the budding bust-up with Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) [...]
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The Comoros archipelago has been out of stock of passports for more than a year, handicapping Comoros Islands nationals wanting [...]
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Head of state Joaquim Chissano nearly made the headlines as a last-minute mediator in the Democratic Republic of Congo crisis. [...]
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Delegates attending a congress of Eritrea's Harakat al Jihad al Islami (Eritrea Islamic Jihad Movement) held in Khartoum from August [...]
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Somali warlord Hussein Mohamed Aideed took advantage of meetings in Addis Ababa last week to patch up his relations with [...]
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The Ethiopian army general who opposes the regime in Addis [...]
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In a declaration dated August 26, Forum pour le Redressement [...]
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The South African president is expected to make a two-day [...]
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The management committee of Eritrean Liberation Front - Revolutionary Council [...]
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An Afar underground group has been distributing anti-government French-language pamphlets [...]
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French development minister Charles Josselin managed neither to tempt nor [...]
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The secretary general of Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) [...]
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The most visible of the companies interested in taking over the Toamasina refinery belonging to Solima (a Malagasy state-owned company) [...]
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One week off the State Trading Corporation issuing an international Call for bids to supply the country's flour for next [...]
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The Italian company Intertrade which was at the origin in 1991 of a dubious contract with some Comoros Islands officials [...]
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The parliament in Kampala on August 28 rejected the project of an amendment for the Electricity Act tabled by the [...]
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The budget for the year 1998-1999, presented in June to the Tanzanian parliament by the minister of finance Daniel Yona, [...]
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During the first half year, investments saw increases although in varying degrees in all provinces of the country. In percentages, [...]
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The large American firms importing textiles are more liberal than the members of the United States Senate Finance Committee on [...]
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The Eritrean government has just created a joint venture with [...]
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The Mozambican government has cancelled two contracts with the Italian [...]
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Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) is to organize [...]
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Robert Sanford Stewart, the Canadian national who was executive manager of the mining company American Mineral Fields (AMF), was in [...]
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Eritrea's new ambassador to Djibouti, who is due to take up his new duties next week, is a military man, [...]
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Madagascar last month named its former ambassador to Ethiopia, Jean Delacroix Bakoniarivo, as permanent representative to the United Nations (New [...]
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Air vice marshal Louis Champiot last month took over command of French armed force units stationed in Djibouti, replacing air [...]
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Tanzania Revenue Authority has threatened to resume legal action against Vinod Tulsidas Chohan, a British national of Indo-Pakistani origin, for [...]
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