Home with a wafer-thin majority of 50.7 percent in a presidential election with a record level of abstentions (more than 49 percent) means incoming head of state Didier Ratsiraka isn't the strongman the island country hoped for.
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Kenya's Telecommunications Bill, drafted at end-November to split the Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation monopoly (ION N° 742), is expected [...]
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Reunion Island's St Denis international airport managed a startling record last year: it handled more than 1.2 million passengers, twice [...]
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A little known financial company, Falcon Funds, which is registered in The Bahamas, administered from Geneva and runs an office [...]
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First European Union funds recently allocated in the framework of its regional indicative programme for Southern Africa will be committed [...]
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Danish development aid for the next five years (1997-2001) should show important cash flows for Tanzania (DKr 1.5 billion), Uganda [...]
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During a change of ministerial posts on February 4, head of state Benjamin Mkapa dismissed deputy finance minister Kilonstsi Mporogomyi [...]
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Head of state Didier Ratsiraka has invited several French nationals to attend the ceremony of his investiture at Iavoloha palace [...]
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The tripartite sub-committee (of representatives from Mozambique, Portugal and the [...]
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Britain will be organizing its second trade fair in Kenya [...]
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Australian agents went to Simonstown recently to recruit experienced South [...]
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Egyptian foreign minister Amr Moussa has invited the five members [...]
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The government has begun negotiating ever so discreetly with opposition [...]
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The Zimbabwean government has decided to cede the majority of [...]
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A delegation from South African mining giant Gencor was in [...]
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Bankruptcy proceedings were started for 357 companies on the French [...]
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The eviction of Ismail Gedi Hared, former cabinet director of head of state Hassan Gouled Aptidon who has just come [...]
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Profiting from the visit to Port Louis this week of Indian prime minister Deve Gowda, Mauritius sought and apparently obtained [...]
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Seychelles police have opened an investigation into the fire which partly destroyed the international conference centre in the Maison du [...]
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The counter-attack led by the Sudanese army around Ed Damazin and Roseires in Blue Nile Province has not succeeded in [...]
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Head of Umma and former Sudanese prime minister Sadiq Al Mahdi will participate in a National Democratic Alliance (opposition) management [...]
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Uganda has been given a sharp warning by US Secretary of State Margaret Albright not to intervene in Eastern Zaire. [...]
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South African experts are working alongside Ugandan specialists in Uganda to assemble munitions and arms, including anti-mine armoured vehicles, according [...]
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The French authorities are to organize a grand conference in St Denis De La Réunion on February 25 and 26 [...]
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Despite all his contacts, the Comoros Islands ambassador to France, Said Hassan Said Hachim, did not manage to make the [...]
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The Ethiopian mining and energy minister signed an agreement in [...]
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France's junior minister for Francophony Ms. Margie Sudre will represent [...]
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The former budget minister (under the late president François Mitterrand), [...]
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Britain's minister for overseas development has cancelled the visit she [...]
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The recently formed Gabinete Plano Zambeze (ION N° 738) has just received its first boss, Simao Lourunho Muai, at the [...]
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Tipped since the middle of last year as the next chairman and managing director of the Mauritian flag-carrier Air Mauritius, [...]
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Britain's new Superintending Under Secretary of State in the Africa Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Richard Nigel Dales [...]
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An officer from the west of Sudan and aged about forty, major Ibrahim Shems Ed Din has been given command [...]
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