The World Bank has bumped prime minister Pascal Rakotomavo up to a sort of "Privatization Tsar" after noting, in a confidential Bank report of October 9, there was a total "absence of support at the highest level of the executive" [.
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Just four weeks before Kenya's general elections on December 29, head of state Daniel arap Moi has named the chairman [...]
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The former Tanzanian finance minister who resigned in November 1996 after accusations of alleged corruption has been named to head [...]
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One of Uganda's richest businessmen has won the Call for bids to privatize the Kampala Hilton. Karim Hirdji already owns [...]
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Belgium's new ambassador to Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia has just presented his Letters of Credence in Djibouti. Stephan De Loecker, [...]
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Invited by the British Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Ethiopia's Speaker of the Council of People's Representatives (and leader [...]
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The date of the inter-Comoros conference on the Anjouan Island secessionist dossier has been set: December 10 to 13 in [...]
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Somaliland's minister of culture and tourism, Ali Sheikh Ibrahim, has already seen the first dividends of his mid-November trip to [...]
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Recent Somali peace talks which wound up in Cairo on December first gave delegates a few puffs of the pipe [...]
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The Seychelles' Leader of the Opposition (and leader of Democratic Party) James Mancham has rejected an offer of an electoral [...]
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French voluntary organization Pays d'Ouverture has halted all activities and looks in danger of being dragged into court by France's [...]
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The long visit to Cairo (November 25 to December first) of colonel John Garang, leader of Sudan People's Liberation Army [...]
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The Kenyan government has not so far seen fit to call for international observers to monitor the forthcoming elections on [...]
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Japanese foreign affairs minister Keizi Obuchi has informed his South [...]
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The deputy director general of the Geneva-based International Labour Organization [...]
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Afar opponents of Front pour le Restauration de l'Unité et [...]
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Reverend Parid Taban, the bishop of Torit and head of [...]
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The former managing director of Uganda Investment Authority, George Rubagumya, [...]
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Apart from the agro-food and livestock sectors, which are going to become important targets for French enterprises in Uganda in [...]
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About forty bilateral and multilateral international fund donors are expected to attend the World Bank consultative group meeting on Tanzania, [...]
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Head of state Robert Mugabe's decision to invent a new tax to pay compensation due to veterans of Uganda's war [...]
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Worked out in April 1997 between OMNIS and the World Bank, the programme for liberalization of Madagascar's mining sector should [...]
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Parallel with a loan of US$16 million for the fishery sector, the African Development Fund (ADF, a subsidiary of African [...]
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Portugual's privately-owned Hidroélectrica de Cabora Bassa (HCB) has been supplying Harare with electricity since December first from the power station [...]
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Coffee planters and small-scale factories carrying out the initial processing of this product have just formed an association in the [...]
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The international battle continues between French cereal producers and the Australian group Weston Milling for the lucrative market of 38,000 [...]
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The London Chamber of Commerce is organizing a trade mission [...]
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The Seychelles vice-president James Michel, who is also minister of [...]
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Mauritius Turf Club, which is responsible for organizing horse racing [...]
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