While multiparty elections in Tanzania are closer to becoming a reality (local municipal elections at the end of this year and a general election scheduled for 1995), the government party, the Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM), is finding it hard to [.
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After being beaten in the legislative election in Kenya in December 1992 by another opposition party candidate, Njenga Karume has [...]
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The director of the east Africa department at Proparco, the private sector arm of the Caisse Française de Développement (CFD), [...]
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In accordance with the decision of the Eritrean National Council (ENC) of May 21, president Isaias Afwerki, announced on June [...]
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According to diplomatic source in Dar es Salaam, the governments of Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire, Angola and Mozambique, have expressed disappointment [...]
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Fighting in the Somali capital on June 5 between the forces of the leader of the Somali National Alliance (SNA), [...]
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A coordination committee that was set up following the conference for peace and reconciliation in Ethiopia that was held in [...]
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After much deliberation, president Mohamed Ibrahim Egal of Somaliland, elected to the post on May 5 (ION N°576) designated his [...]
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Chairman of the Tanzania Chamber of Commerce Industries and Agriculture (TCCIA), already a target for criticism from some Tanzanian business [...]
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The International Development Association (IDA), affiliate of the World Bank, recently approved a 52.6-million dollar credit to the Ugandan education [...]
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At a recent informal donors meeting in Paris (ION N°576), finance minister, Musalla Mudavadi, acknowledged that his government would not [...]
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The special representative of the secretary general of the United [...]
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French Compagnie Générale de Géophysique (CGG) has won a 2.2 [...]
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President Hassan Gouled Aptidon announced last week that he intends [...]
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Former civil servant in the French Treasury, Dov Zerah was [...]
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The Ethiopian government expelled the first secretary from the Ugandan [...]
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The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) was bristling with rumours last week, over the possible acquisition of stock in Total South [...]
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Forum Europe, along with the South Africa Foundation, and the South African delegation at the EC, is planning a conference [...]
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The Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (GOF), Gilbert Abergel, recently visited a number of Masonic lodges in [...]
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The campaign, that opened last week, for legislative elections in Madagascar on June 16, encouraged a certain number of cases [...]
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Leader of Renamo, the former rebel movement, in Mozambique, Afonso Dhlakama, ended a visit to the Belgian capital, Brussels, this [...]
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A Portuguese mission has been set up for Mozambique known as Good Hope that is backed by the presidency, part [...]
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The attorney general of Mauritius and member of the MMM (government coalition) central committee, Alan Ganoo saw his attempt to [...]
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The African Development Bank (ADB) last month approved a 37-million dollar (US) credit for the Zimbabwean Posts and Telecommunications Corporation [...]
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Solicitor and a notary, Danny Lucas has been nominated Chief [...]
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The head of the Southern Africa Association, a British directors' [...]
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, announced this week [...]
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The French Communist parliamentary group recently proposed a bill to [...]
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The Malagasy government has accepted the appointment of Francesco Sciortino [...]
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The South African Reserve Bank has opened an inquiry into [...]
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