The coup d'etat by mercenaries has backfired and a trap has snapped shut around plotters and backers: lieutenant Ayouba Combo (a government prisoner freed by the mercenaries) and Said Mohamed Lava (a former rebel-in-hiding who emerged for the occasion), plus [.
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The question of financing for Mozambique's political parties and more especially of assistance for RENAMO (opposition) has been the subject [...]
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At the end of a trial which had lasted nineteen months on charges of having tried to attack a police [...]
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Major political manoeuvres are under way to enable head of state Albert Zafy to designate a new prime minister. The [...]
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A recent report (September 13) from the United States embassy in Addis Ababa counsels US citizens planning to visit Ethiopia [...]
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The French mercenary Bob Denard and about thirty companions in arms (all French except one Belgian) who authored the coup [...]
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Uganda's National Resistance Army is being re-equipped with military material from China, North Korea and the United States. A Ugandan [...]
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For the past two weeks, forces of the Southern Sudan Independence Movement which agreed to accept the Lafon Declaration on [...]
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The EU presidency (currently represented by Spain) is expected to contact the Sudanese delegation to the United Nations General Assembly [...]
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During a recent visit to Zanzibar Island, US ambassador to [...]
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The Spanish government is to supply assistance to Mozambique's police [...]
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Delegates of the Sudanese government (secretary of state for foreign [...]
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International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank subsidiary for loans to the private sector, has two loan projects for Eritrea [...]
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French contractor Sofreavia has won the Call for bids to draft a master plan for renovating four regional airports in [...]
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According to the trade mission bulletin of French embassies in East Africa, the Tanzanian government is pushing discussions with several [...]
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Somali National Alliance leader general Mohamed Farah Aideed announced last month that his "government" would tax trading operations in the [...]
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Mauritius imported 15,000 tons of white sugar from the Republic of South Africa at the beginning of September to meet [...]
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The French parastatal Agence pour la Coopération Technique, Industrielle et Economique and Kenya's ministry of land reclamation, regional and water [...]
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The appointment of a new board and a new director general for Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has failed to quell [...]
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Two senior RENAMO officials, MP David Aloni and Jorge Pereira Da Silva, a counsellor on international affairs to RENAMO president [...]
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Several of Madagascar's importers were wondering this week why there [...]
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The state-owned airline Kenya Airways will have to make its [...]
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Maputo financial circles suspect the Brazilian-born religious sect Igreja Universal [...]
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According to Kingsley Dube, coordinator of Matabeleland Zambezi Water Trust, [...]
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The Bank of Uganda has called in international financial consultants [...]
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An executive of South African trader Transtrade is due in [...]
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The Sunday Gazette, Zimbabwe's only independent Sunday newspaper, has a new government-friendly editor, Francis Mdlongwa. He is expected to give [...]
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Kenya has accepted the nomination of Michael Gerdts as Germany's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Kenya, replacing Bernd Mutzelburg. Born [...]
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Speaking from the French embassy in Moroni where he had fled after the coup d'état of September 27-28, Comoros prime [...]
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Passing through Paris last month en route to the AGM of the International Bar Association in which he is deputy [...]
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Malagasy energy and mining minister Roger Vony told Madagascar Tribune [...]
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Sudanese People's Liberation Army leader colonel John Garang's personal counsellor [...]
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The special representative of Russian president Boris Eltsin (and deputy [...]
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