Returning on June 1 from a private visit to South Africa, head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim ran into a revolt of the country's judges sparked by government intervention during his absence to halt judicial investigation into "poor management" [.
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Chargé d'Affaires in the US embassy in Djibouti in the present absence of a titular ambassador, Ms. Terri Robl is [...]
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Although he signed an agreement with the Sudanese government in Damascus last month, Charif Al Hindi, the former secretary general [...]
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Symbol of the Left Wave which unfurled across France's National Assembly after the June 1 (second round) of the general [...]
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Australia's new High Commissioner to Mauritius Chris Marchant takes up his duties this month, replacing Ms. Mary McCarter who had [...]
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The idea of the United Nations taking over control of Somali Aid Coordination Body (SACB), which has been put forward [...]
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Colonel John Garang has redeployed units of the SPLA in Southern Sudan in a bid to control the region. After [...]
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Named US under secretary of state for African affairs by US president Bill Clinton on May 28, Ms. Susan Rice [...]
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For the first time since the Seychelles returned to a multi-party political system in 1992, the anniversary of the June [...]
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Head of state Daniel arap Moi gave a new example of his method of governing last weekend by ordering a [...]
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French ambassadors have just been appointed for three East and Southern Africa countries (Djibouti, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe). In Dar es [...]
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One dead, a hundred or so injured, dozens of shops looted, such was the upshot of rioting at Arba Minch [...]
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Contesting the report by The Indian Ocean Newsletter (ION N° 765) of a demonstration by discontented soldiers in Djibouti on [...]
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The vice chairman of Tanzania's national electoral commission states, in [...]
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According to the right-of-centre US news magazine New Republic, the [...]
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France's inter-arm military exercises, codenamed Operation Geranium 1997, began on [...]
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The Tanzanian government has appealed the decision of a local [...]
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Italian under secretary of state for Africa, Development and the [...]
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A judge in the Aix en Provence (France) appeal court [...]
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Official statistics for Kenya's external trade in the 1997 Economic Survey recently published by the government confirm the importance of [...]
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A delegation from South Africa's North-West Province attending Europe South Africa '97 Business and Finance Forum (ESA 97) in Edinburgh [...]
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The recent proposal of Portuguese secretary of state for development Jose Lamego to open up part of the capital of [...]
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The government of Zanzibar has approved eight fishery projects in the Indian Ocean involving theoretical investments totalling 13.77 billion Tanzanian [...]
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With the support of the US embassy in Asmara, twenty-eight US firms operating in Eritrea recently set up an American [...]
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In addition to the US company Anadarko which will carry out offshore oil test drilling before the end of the [...]
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Just days before handing over his ministerial functions following the victory of the Socialist party in the French general election [...]
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Officials of the Ugandan central bank have sent a mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo (ex-Zaire) to investigate the [...]
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Following an agreement signed in Nairobi last week, Germany has [...]
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Head of state Didier Ratsiraka has named his young brother [...]
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The annual meeting organized by French trade advisers in East [...]
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Two French banks would like to open representative offices in [...]
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Hidroprojecto, a Portuguese subsidiary of Société Anonyme Française d'Etudes et [...]
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Mauritius Freeport Authority is due to issue Calls for bids [...]
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