The first round of Madagascar's presidential election, held on November 3, looks like a mirror image of the 1992 ballot which saw Albert Zafy elected president. This time too, his main adversary for the run-off will be ex-president and retired [.
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The financial convention under which France grants Djibouti a structural adjustment subsidy of FFr.28 million (about 965 million Djibouti francs) [...]
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World Bank officials are getting down to studying a new loan project for Tanzania which would involve US$25 million from [...]
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The Harare summit of the Group of 15 countries, created to help fifteen LDC's counter the Group of 7 industrialized [...]
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Portugal failed to get the required increase in electricity tariffs for supplies from Mozambique's Cabora Bassa dam (ION N° 738) [...]
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The office of head of state Benjamin Mkapa announced on November 3 the resignation of finance minister Simon Mbilinyi and [...]
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The intervention credits for Institut Français pour la Recherche et la Technologie Polaires (IFRTP) in Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises [...]
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The African Development Bank group has put out for examination several loan projects for East African and Indian Ocean countries. [...]
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Following a first conference on telecommunications in July, Ethiopian Scientific Society is to organize a second get-together in July next [...]
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The French Senate (upper chamber) at end-October okayed France's membership [...]
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The French Senate (upper chamber) at end-October approved the bilateral [...]
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A Call for bids in the privatization programme for Maputo [...]
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During a working visit to Moroni end-October, Belgium's non-resident ambassador [...]
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New deputy prime minister and defence minister Tefera Walewa is, like his dismissed predecessor Tamrat Layne, a former militant supporter [...]
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It was perhaps in a moment of pique that Carl Niehaus accepted the post of South African ambassador to the [...]
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A former rebel chieftain in Southern Sudan from 1969 to 1972 (when the Addis Ababa agreements were signed), Joseph Laquo [...]
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The new head of promotion of the territorial committee for tourism on Mayotte Island arrived there at the end of [...]
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The general election planned for November 24 has been rescheduled for December 1 but it is not sure that it [...]
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The principal chord for the imminent ministerial waltz on Mauritius is the attribution of the finance portfolio. Three arrangements are [...]
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The recent dismissal of Tamrat Layne from his post of deputy prime minister and defence minister due to alleged corruption [...]
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The thirteenth meeting of the joint Franco-Mauritian commission just can't get off the ground. Originally scheduled on Mauritius in September [...]
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Passing through Yemen in the framework of a tour of the Middle East, British foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind announced in [...]
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South African deputy president Thabo Mbeki this week began an extensive European tour which should take him through Belgium, France, [...]
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Presenting last month the opinion of the French national assembly's laws commission on the 1997 Finance Bill concerning overseas territories, [...]
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Sudanese social planning minister Mohamed Osman Khalifa announced on November 5 that the government had ordered the International Committee of [...]
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After three weeks of industrial action by public sector workers [...]
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Interpol) Zimbabwe's chief commissioner of police was recently elected (ahead [...]
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In order to resorb renewed tension between the two countries [...]
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The FORD-Kenya (opposition) MP for the Kisumu Rural constituency announced [...]
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In addition to meeting French head of state Jacques Chirac, [...]
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