Severely weakened by growing eyesight problems, President Didier Ratsiraka seems in a position to win the presidential election in December.
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Gauteng province's safety and liaison minister headed for Lisbon this week to meet Luis Amado, Portugal's secretary of state for [...]
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President Robert Mugabe and the ruling Zanu-PF party have been charged with being responsible for Zimbabwe's political and economic crisis [...]
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Ambassador of France to Djibouti, Patrick Roussel is quite adamant that the enlargement of his residence be completed before he [...]
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It appears that two of the dissidents excluded in late March from the central committee of the TPLF discreetly backed the mid-May launching of a periodical defending their positions.
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After participating in a United Nations AIDS conference in New York last week, Hamada Madi "Bolero" flew to Washington so [...]
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The secretary general of the ruling National Congress (NC), who replaced Hassan al Turabi when the latter turned dissident and [...]
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By providing shelter to some 50 officers of the Ugandan army (Uganda People's Defence Force or UPDF) who have fled [...]
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The Seychelles National Party (SNP) seems to be preparing for [...]
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In late June 2001 came what was announced by The Indian Ocean Newsletter almost a year ago (ION 913): American [...]
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To conform to the law that oil companies must open their doors to black business by 2010, Shell is to [...]
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Since Lafarge and Blue Circle joined forces in late 2000 to buy the Pan African Cement company (based in Zambia, [...]
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Replacing Jean Didier Roisin as the French foreign ministry's director for Africa and the Indian Ocean is France's current ambassador [...]
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Radley Weber has resigned as managing director of the Indian Ocean Tuna (IOT) company, a canned tuna factory based in [...]
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A specialist of Central Africa's Great Lake region has been selected by President George W Bush to be the United [...]
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The Afro-American who gave a conference on the WTO at Kampala's Centre for Basic Research on June 28 is a [...]
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Bowing to the pressure from veterans of the war of national liberation and from landless peasants occupying a vast Nuanetsi [...]
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A World Bank affiliate just can't say "No" to the Ismaïl cousins, two important businessmen on Madagascar's fishing, textile, and [...]
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Plagued by cash problems and non-refunded loans, the Banco Austral is to be privatized for a second time. The Mozambican [...]
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The head of the Luo-dominated National Development Party (NDP) who doubles as minister of energy is aching for Luo officials [...]
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Launched on June 11 (ION 954) after being put off last year (ION 920), the new tax on Madagascar imports [...]
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Examination of the request by the Comoros to be admitted [...]
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While the transfer of the World Bank's offices in Antananarivo [...]
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The World Bank's approval, on July 3, of the Power [...]
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United Basalt Products Ltd (UBP) is considering the building of [...]
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Headed since it was privatized by an engineer from the [...]
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Renault Véhicules Industriels (RVI) has had better luck in Tanzania [...]
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France's new trade adviser to Ethiopia is a specialist on [...]
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The linguistic talents of President Joaquim Chissano brought him into [...]
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France's former maritime préfet of the English Channel and the [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, President [...]
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No sooner had Minister of Justice Ibrahim Idriss Djibril inaugurated the new offices of his ministry alongside President Ismaïl Omar [...]
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