Confronted with anti-government guerrillas in the northern part of the country, implicated in supporting the offensive which brought Laurent Kabila to power in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and squeezed by international fund donors (in particular Denmark and Great Britain) [.
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Following the mission of about a dozen Italian experts in marble and granite cutting, organized during the first half of [...]
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Zimbabwe's textile and wearing apparel sector is booming, thanks notably to sales to the Republic of South Africa, which has [...]
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The Kenyan government on August 29 announced its intention of carrying out the reforms demanded by the International Monetary Fund [...]
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The services of the Zanzibar presidency were among the many governmental institutions whose telephone lines were cut off last month [...]
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Tanzania's state-owned National Bank of Commerce board of directors decided last month to suspend the payment of fees due to [...]
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Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF, the governmental army) is in process of abandoning the local production of certain military equipment [...]
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The European Commission has just had the surprise of its life with the announcement that a South African parliamentary commission [...]
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Peter Fauling, CEO of the South African electricity utility Eskom, has confirmed to The Indian Ocean Newsletter that re-establishing the [...]
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Tanzania's mainly Indo-Pakistani industrialists are in no hurry to see [...]
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International Development Association (the World Bank's concessional lending affiliate) has [...]
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The parastatal Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur (CFCE) will organize [...]
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United States president Bill Clinton has announced the nomination of Ms. Lange Schermerhorn as US ambassador to Djibouti, taking over [...]
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Kuwait's new ambassador to Ethiopia, Mohammad Al Awadhi, will also inaugurate his country's new embassy any day now, moving out [...]
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The present head of France's cooperation mission in Namibia, Ms. Nicole Weil, has been shortlisted to replace Jean Jacques Mouline [...]
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Comoros Islands prime minister Ahmed Abdou has not set foot in his office since he returned to the archipelago at [...]
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Head of state Daniel arap Moi ignited a powerful smokescreen last week as the Kenyan opposition National Convention Assembly (NCA) [...]
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The Third Francophone Games weren't even finished in Antananarivo this week than Madagascar's political opposition was already up in arms [...]
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The faction of Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD, Afar rebellion), directed by Ahmed Dini [...]
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Oromo opposition groups in Ethiopia (belonging to the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia and factions from the Oromo [...]
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Knowing his government to be divided on the proposal for inter-Comoros dialogue put forward by the Organization of African Unity [...]
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Relations deteriorated this week, between Tanzania and Burundi, as witness the declaration of the government of Bujumbura, on September 2, [...]
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Mauritius is considering granting residence permits to selected foreign investors and their families. The council of ministers had agreed a [...]
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Somaliland president Ibrahim Mohamed Egal received an Egyptian delegation led [...]
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The Kenyan head of state, Daniel arap Moi, will chair [...]
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Adressing the council of ministers on August 30, Madagascar's posts [...]
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Colonel Hassan Harouna, the officer commanding the expeditionary force which [...]
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At the height of demonstrations by separatists on Anjouan Island [...]
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The chairman of the Community of Comoros Islands citizens in [...]
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Zimbabwe's minister for lands and agriculture tabled a Bill in [...]
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