As the countdown for the general elections due at the end of 1997 get under way (registration of voters begins on May 19), reformers within the Kenyan government (such as finance minister Musalia Mudavadi) have only a few weeks to [.
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Businessman Silas Majyambere, who is Rwandan origin and chairman of Kampala-based East Africa Foam Ltd, expects to inaugurate a foam-mattress [...]
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After fifteen years of participation in Zimbabwe's government, including twelve years as minister, Denis Norman resigned last week from his [...]
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The designation by the national bureau of Parti de la Renovation Démocratique of Khaireh Allaleh Hared (Issa, Dalol, Furlaba) as [...]
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The Labour Party's victory in Britain's general election on May 1st (a date known as "Labour Day" in many countries) [...]
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The European Development Fund management committee is envisaging financing to a level 21.8 million ECU a maintenance and improvement programme [...]
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Djibouti finance minister Mohamed Ali Mohamed recently sent a cutting letter to officials of the African Development Bank to get [...]
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Sealed tenders in the Call for bids finally issued for a demining contract financed by the parastatal Caisse Française de [...]
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The trouble caused by the occupation of the Zairean mining regions by rebels headed by Laurent Kabila has had repercussions [...]
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The opposition has called on the Seychelles government in parliament over a company known as Drafix, which is registered in [...]
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The United States is planning US$27.2 million in bilateral ODA via USAID for Kenya (their first commercial partner in the [...]
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The existence in a holding account of Union Française de Réassurance of an amount of more than £470,000 (about FFr.4.5 [...]
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San Diego-based telecommunications firm Qualcom, which backs the North American cellular telephone standard, CDMA, has come top of the pre-selection [...]
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Banque Nationale pour le Développement Rurale (BTM) director Jean Pierre [...]
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Charcoal exports from the north-eastern region of Somalia to Arab [...]
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The World Bank consultative group on Mozambique will meet in [...]
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Uganda Investment Authority expects to organize an investment promotion conference [...]
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The European Development Fund has approved a grant of 60 [...]
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Tigre Regional State, the region in the northern part of the country from which the leaders of Tigray People's Liberation [...]
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After the success of its first congress in mid-April (ION N° 762) which consecrated its appearance on the political scene [...]
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At the end of April prime minister Ahmed Abdou dissolved the technical committee responsible for the structural adjustment programme (in [...]
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The preparation by Comité d'Organisation des IIIème Jeux de la Francophonie (COJF) whose general manager is Solo Rajaonarivelo, of sporting [...]
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Uganda's head of military police, lieutenant colonel Chege Mugume, is believed to have been put in command of a special [...]
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Zaire's chargé d'affaires in Pretoria, Issa Ganda E Ndzea, was relieved of his functions by head of state Mobutu Sese [...]
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The editor in chief of Jamhuuriya (The Republic) was arrested recently on charges of using the opposition newspaper to denounce [...]
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The death of general Fathi Ahmed Ali, vice chairman of National Democratic Alliance (Sudanese opposition) and head of the NDA [...]
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The present head of the Eritrean foreign ministry's Europe Desk, [...]
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Madagascar has confirmed that head of state Didier Ratsiraka has [...]
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The Australian High Commissioner to Mauritius, Ms. Mary McCarter, ended [...]
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Eritrea's foreign ministry on May 2 gave officials of United [...]
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A separatist movement has been formed on Anjouan Island under [...]
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It was not without much reluctance that outgoing Mayotte MP [...]
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