Eritrea's decision on December 5 to break diplomatic relations with its neighbour Sudan is a clear expression of Asmara's profound fears of what its leaders privately refer to as "Sudan's Islamic and imperialistic ambitions". Asmara is not alone in perceiving [.
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Ethiopia's candidate for the post of secretary general of the ACP (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific) group, Gebray Berhane, who is also [...]
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The secretary general of Front Démocratique (opposition) Mustapha Sheikh was attacked in Moroni on November 28 by lieutenant Fakhri Mradabi, [...]
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Madagascar's government promoted nine army colonels to the rank of general, including general (engineers) Rasolosoa Dolin, who has also been [...]
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Former African National Congress representative in Zimbabwe Kingsley Mamabolo has been appointed South African High Commissioner to Zimbabwe. He will [...]
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The French national airline Air France could abandon its Seychelles / Reunion Island route towards the middle of next year [...]
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A letter from South Africa's first deputy president Thabo Mbeki to the current president of the European Union's council of [...]
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The dominant tone of the World Bank consultative group on Kenya, scheduled in Paris on December 15 and 16, is [...]
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New Sulzer Diesel France (NSDF), which lost out (to a Scandinavian-Japanese consortium, Denmark's Burmeister & Wein Scandinavian Contractors and Japan's [...]
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The World Bank has calculated Madagascar's gross cash needs for the period 1994-1995 at around US$5.2 billion, including $1.2 billion [...]
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The Bank of Uganda is to issue new 500 and [...]
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The International Monetary Fund agreed, on December 7, to reschedule [...]
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The first-ever summit of the Common Market of East and [...]
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Ethiopian Shipping Lines has put the SS Star of Massawa, [...]
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According to Romolo Arena, deputy chairman of Instituto de Riconstruzione [...]
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According to diplomatic sources in Kampala, units of the government-supporting National Resistance Army (NRA) equipped with heavy arms are being [...]
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It was virtually a case of Monopoly's "Go directly to jail" for the two men charged over the terrorist attack [...]
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Head of state Yoweri Museveni has threatened to send in the army to tame a possible rebellion against the government [...]
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The Council of Alternative Forces for Peace and Democracy (CAFPD, opposition) united more than 100,000 people (but more than 250,000 [...]
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Malakal was the target of a brief but vicious mortar attack on December 2 followed by close-range fighting with light [...]
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The arbitration on Ethiopia undertaken by three members of the US Democratic Party (chairman of the House Sub-Committee on African [...]
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Head of state Joaquim Chissano has already managed to get his own back in his diplomatic difference of opinion with [...]
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Head of state Ali Hassan Mwinyi appointed Cleopa Msuya as the new prime minister on December 5 after dissolving parliament [...]
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The bye-election scheduled for December 19 and 20 in the distant district of Chipinge South, in the south-eastern corner of [...]
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After pausing for a month, peace talks between the Djibouti government and Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de [...]
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According to an Arab diplomatic source in New York, the [...]
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Delegates to the European Union / ACP conference of social [...]
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The secretary general of Oumma, the movement headed by former [...]
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In a telephone interview with The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Ethiopia's [...]
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The bishop of Mukono diocese, in the eastern part of [...]
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