After having steadfastly refused to open up its telecommunications to the private sector, the Ethiopian government may now have to soften its stand following strong pressure from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (an IMF delegation is expected in [.
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The man who has just been designated CEO of the leading conglomerate on mauritius, Rogers & Co, Tim Taylor, will [...]
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The acting secretary general of African National Congress, Ms. Cheryl Carolus, has been appointed South Africa's ambassador to Great Britain. [...]
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The present US ambassador to Botswana, Robert Krueger, is expected to be appointed as US Secretary of State Ms. Madeleine [...]
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The European Commission's new director general for development is Philip Martin Lowe, a British citizen. He takes over from French [...]
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President Didier Ratsiraka really wants to keep, at least partially, his election promise of putting up 35,000 units of housing. [...]
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It was planned as the great new turning-the-page of French political clout on the African continent. Starting in the Republic [...]
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Units of the Djibouti and Ethiopian armed forces have launched a joint search operation against armed elements of Front pour [...]
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The Speaker of the Seychelles parliament, Francis McGregor, suspended the United Opposition MP Reverend Wavel Ramkalawan for two sittings on [...]
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After losing the political initiative following the announcement of the programme of democratic reforms worked out by a group of [...]
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After his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in Washington, at the end of September, then his meeting with [...]
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When the spokesperson of the separatist politico-administration coordination on Anjouan Island, Mohamed Abdou Madi, left the archipelago to go to [...]
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The mediator of the Organization of African Unity, Pierre Yéré, left Moroni on October 4 without having convinced the Anjouan [...]
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The russian prime minister recently instructed his defence minister to [...]
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The president of Somaliland, Mohamed Ibrahim Egal, has named Muhammad [...]
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Reverend Jesse Jackson was named this week as special African [...]
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The Malagasy interior minister has just legalized Rassemblement des Démocrates [...]
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During a breakfast in the presence of the foreign ministers [...]
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The Djibouti authorities despatched a delegation to Hargeisa last month [...]
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French wheat and wheat flour exporters seem to have lost the battle of specifications for 70,000 tons of wheat flour [...]
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The Belgian ambassador in Nairobi has received the assurances of the Kenyan government that the munitions factory at Eldoret, whose [...]
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The Kenyan government last week decided to grant licences to two independent electricity suppliers although the contracts have been roasted [...]
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The management committee of European Development Fund (EDF) grouping the fifteen member states of the European Union will shortly see [...]
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A management takeover proposal for Société Malgache des Transports Maritimes (SMTM) in the framework of Madagascar's privatization programme has slammed [...]
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An electricity transmission grid linking Songo power station (near Mozambique's Cabora Bassa hydroelectric barrage) with Malawi is to be constructed [...]
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A new regional airline called Kamaria Air has seen the light of day on the Comoros Islands on the initiative [...]
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The Zimbabwean government wants something in return for its aid (particularly arms deliveries) to rebels of Laurent Kabila which helped [...]
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Officials of Ethiopian Electric Corporation (EEC) announced, at the end [...]
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Several French companies, headed by Pechiney, which hope to participate [...]
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During a recent session of the general council of the [...]
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The US Commerce Department has reached a pre-agreement with the [...]
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