The battle for Wau,begun last week, concentrates the mind wonderfully on the main characteristics of current fighting in Southern Sudan. In the first place, it throws up the fragility of the Sudanese government's control over one of Southern Sudan's three [.
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The recommendations of a report of a mission on the future of French Southern and Antarctic Lands (Terres Australes et [...]
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A motion to impeach head of state Didier Ratsiraka tabled in Madagascar's national assembly by 49 opposition MPs has failed [...]
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Sources close to Ahmed Dini's Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD, Afar rebellion) report two [...]
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The French government wants to remedy the deficit of political dialogue which it has noted with the English- and Portuguese-speaking [...]
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A ministerial delegation representing the three member-countries of East African Cooperation (EAC) began in Belgium this week an international tour [...]
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Head of state France Albert Rene has announced the date of the presidential and general elections: March 20 to 22. [...]
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An inquiry by Donors Democratic Development Group (DDDG, a group set up by Western ambassadors in Nairobi) into inter-ethnic violence [...]
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The fragile consensus obtained at the meeting on the Anjouan crisis last week in Moheli (ION N° 797) didn't take [...]
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Germany's head of state is expected to go to the [...]
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The French ex-minister of industry and of posts and telecomm [...]
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The chairman of Uganda National Chamber of Commerce and Industry [...]
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Philippe Gabboush, the leader of the ex-Sudan National Party (which [...]
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The three Hawiye leaders in Mogadiscio – Ali Mahdi Mohamed, [...]
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At the end of several days of discussions in Libya [...]
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The market for cellular telephones is heading for the sky in the Republic of South Africa. Current projections suggest that [...]
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From his mission to Antananarivo at the end of 1997 (ION N° 797), an official of International Monetary Fund, Christophe [...]
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Last year's extended heavy rains set off by the El Niño climatic phenomenon led to the stagnation of Kenya's flower [...]
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Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris (CCIP) is preparing a series of commercial initiatives on Uganda. In December 1997, [...]
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The government of Zanzibar has given a new green light for the grand project, for long controversial, of the Zanzibar [...]
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The three consultants on the starting plate for obtaining a technical assistance contract financed by the World Bank (US$7 million) [...]
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Simon Wong, investment executive of State Investment Corporation (SIC), has been seconded to Editions de l'Océan Indien (EOI) to supervise [...]
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The loan recently allocated to Ethiopia (US$200 million at the advantageous interest rate of 0.75 percent) by International Development Association [...]
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The Portuguese group linked to the former colonial entrepreneur Antonio [...]
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Proportionately, foreign investors seem more attracted by Zanzibar than by [...]
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Uganda Investment Authority is to invest US$22.3 million to develop [...]
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New Number Two at the South African embassy in Paris is Leo Conradie, a man who knows a thing or [...]
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The chairman of the previous national assembly and a Kenya African National Union (KANU, government) MP, Francis Ole Kaparo has [...]
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The Malagasy government has designated a successor for Thierry Rajaona, who was dismissed in November as executive secretary of the [...]
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On the occasion of the Oumma party congress in Asmara, from February 2 to 5, the leader of this Sudanese [...]
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