When Kenya's minister of state in the president's office Kipkalya Kones and finance minister Musalia Mudavadi attended the World Bank consultative group on Kenya in Paris (March 21 and 22, ION N° 712), Kones was probably not surprised to hear [.
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According to the 1995 operations report of the para-statal Caisse Française de Développement presented in Paris last week, the institution [...]
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Ports along South Africa's eastern coastline are close to saturation point, particularly the port of Durban, and a survey by [...]
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Although the Non-Performing Assets Recovery Trust came into action in November, it has so far managed to recover only US$1 [...]
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Djibouti's outstanding external debt is now estimated to total some US$217 million (38.6 billion Djibouti francs), including $94 million for [...]
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The confidential report which Swiss security firm Cotecna (a subsidiary of SGS) handed to the finance ministry (during the previous [...]
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Adopted on March 20 as part of the Finance Bill, the 1996 tranche of Madagascar's public investment programme (PIP) for [...]
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Housing and lands minister Alan Ganoo took advantage of the Mauritius chamber of commerce and industry AGM at end-March to [...]
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The Ethiopian government has granted US firm Canyon Resources Africa [...]
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After twenty years absence, Air France has been offering two [...]
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Representatives from the Mauritius office of the consultant Price Waterhouse [...]
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An article in ION N° 709 of 9 March 1996 [...]
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The arrival of Zimbabwe Independent, the freshly-launched independent weekly publication, in Zimbabwe's newspaper kiosks from May 10 onwards is expected [...]
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There are two ways of looking at the Comoros Islands government announced on March 27: political, and family. Taking the [...]
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As announced, it is the budget presented by economy minister Tavonanahary Rabetsitonta which was adopted by the national assembly on [...]
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After all the excitement aroused by the Seychelles' Economic Development Act (the controversial new law which guarantees immunity from criminal [...]
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The expected resignation of finance minister Chris Liebenberg last week has given the head of state, Nelson Mandela, an opportunity [...]
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Head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim is expected in Paris at the beginning of May on a private visit [...]
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Madagascar's Caisse Nationale de Prévoyance Sociale, which comes under public works, administrative reform, and labour minister Henri Rakotovololona, celebrates its [...]
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When KANU MP Kipruto Arap Kirwa stood up in his Cherangani constituency on March 28 and declared that Kenyan head [...]
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Portugal's Geotraders, a company with links to Otelo De Carvalho, [...]
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The management committee of French parastatal Fonds d'Aide et de [...]
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Two candidates will be running against outgoing head of state [...]
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For the first time South Africa has a non-White (and former African National Congress member) as finance minister following the [...]
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Two new directors general of Britain's parastatal Overseas Development Administration (part of the ministry for overseas development) have been appointed. [...]
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A leading banker and newly appointed president of the South African Foundation (replacing Mexer Kahn), Conrad Barend Strauss is expected [...]
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A number of new appointments and changes of posting have been made in Ethiopia's diplomatic service, with twelve new ambassadors [...]
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Paul Vergès, the leader of Parti Communiste Réunionnais, is standing [...]
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Former president and leader of the Democratic Party (opposition), James [...]
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The European Union's Nairobi-based representative for Somalia Sigurd Illing (of [...]
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