The cash troubles of Armand Apavou's Reunion Island group (22 companies, 1,500 employees), which has managed to extract loans totalling FFr.1 billion from the Crédit Foncier de France, FFr.500 million from the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignation, and another FFr.
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Ethiopia's permanent representative to the United Nations Mulugeta Eteffa has been named ambassador to France, replacing general Yassu Mengesha, who [...]
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Tanzania's youthful and ambitious foreign affairs and international development minister Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete is currently on a tour of Europe [...]
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Presented on Mauritius as a personal friend of prime minister Navin Ramgoolam, Frenchman Marc Bousquet attended meetings of the Mauritian [...]
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Three projects for loans to East African and Southern African countries were put on the World Bank's menu last month. [...]
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The audit by financial consultants Arthur Andersen devoted to the hotel units in the Armand Apavou group concludes that it [...]
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A Luxembourg trade mission headed by foreign trade secretary Geogres Wohlfart was in the Republic of South Africa from April [...]
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The saga of Zimbabwe's cellular phone system continues unabated. Efforts by Black businessman Strive Masiyiwa to get his Econet up [...]
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A group of Portuguese businessmen close to former (Socialist) president Mario Soares who have commercial influence in Macao (South-East Asia) [...]
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In an aide-mémoire of March 28 to the director general of the International Monetary Fund, Michel Camdessus, the governor of [...]
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Three weeks after the Mauritius Cooperative Central Bank was placed in receivership (ION N° 716), the Bank of Mauritius (central [...]
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Mauritius and the People's Republic of China initialled a ten-year [...]
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US multinational Coca-Cola Corporation is to invest US$10.7 million in [...]
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After having opened an office in Johannesburg to represent it [...]
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After having bought up for a cost of US$16.6 million [...]
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The Airports Company, which administers commercial airports in the Republic [...]
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Ethiopian transport minister Abdul Mejid Hussein was publicly contradicted by an official statement released on May 4 by the office [...]
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Heads of state Joaquim Chissano and Nelson Mandela signed an agreement in Maputo on May 6 covering the resettlement of [...]
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The foreign ministers of Eritrea and Yemen are due to sign an arbitration settlement in view of a peaceful solution [...]
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A special task force has been set up to lay on a welcome for head of state Yoweri Museveni (who [...]
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Eritrea recently awarded Italian aircraft manufacturer Aermacchi a contract for six MB-339CD training planes, a new type which only left [...]
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Management at Belgian ammunition factory Fabrique Nationale, of Herstal, has confirmed a report by the daily De Morgen of Gent [...]
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At the end of his visit to Madagascar last week, International Monetary Fund director general Michel Camdessus advised head of [...]
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Returning to Moroni on April 27 after a two-week private trip to Egypt, head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim [...]
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Zimbabwe's High Court this week ruled the election (on October [...]
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Local elections are expected to go ahead in Mozambique in [...]
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Head of state Daniel arap Moi this week appointed the [...]
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National Party leader (and deputy president of South Africa) F. [...]
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Head of state Robert Mugabe announced on May 9 the [...]
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The Tanzanian energy and minerals minister announced in Dar es [...]
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French post and telecommunications minister François Fillon may not be [...]
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