Succeeding the confrontations of August 1999, the recent fighting for the control of Bangoka airport (north-east of Kisangani in Democratic Republic of Congo) between the armed forces of Uganda (UPDF) and Rwanda (RPA) risk dragging into a fratricidal war two [.
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Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) organized a really tough briefing on May 5 to make sure its new High [...]
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A controversial meeting of several of Ethiopia's opposition organizations was held in Addis Ababa on May 6 and 7 on [...]
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The Kenyan government is to table in parliament a Petroleum Bill 2000 which attorney general Amos Wako must soon have [...]
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Belgium's new ambassador to Ethiopia is its former ambassador to Zimbabwe (1995-1999), Leopold Carrewyn. Born in 1945, Carrewyn has a [...]
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Despite several recent setbacks (ION 898), the government of South Africa is maintaining its pressure to increase sales and economic [...]
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The most immediate effect of the Somalia reconciliation conference now being put on in Djibouti at the insistence of head [...]
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A group of Ethio-Americans has promised to collect US$1 million in private contributions for US vice president Al Gore's electoral [...]
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National Security Archives, a Washington-based NGO, has used the US Freedom of Information Act to obtain a State Department internal [...]
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Uganda's frantic efforts to get on the itinerary of US president Bill Clinton when he makes his next (and last [...]
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Whilst a diplomatic settlement to the Eritrea-Ethiopia border dispute still [...]
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Four candidates have come forward seeking endorsement by Chama cha [...]
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The company whose best-known co-founder is Moss Ngoasheng, an adviser to head of state Thabo Mbeki who has just resigned, [...]
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With no fuel for its power stations, Moroni last week saw again the kind of power blackouts which had darkened [...]
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After travelling to London on May 18 and 19 to attend the third meeting of the United Kingdom Bilateral Forum, [...]
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Like Angola or Tunisia, Kenya will not be figuring on Belgium's list of 25 countries where it will futurely concentrate [...]
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At the end of April and for the second time in six months, a delegation of officers of Uganda's intelligence [...]
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The future privatization of Madagascar's telecommunications utility Telma is raising sparks within its supervisory ministry. In recent weeks minister of [...]
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Three of the seven firms preselected as possible strategic partners for Mauritius Telecom (MT) are to hand in their bids [...]
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A decree signed by the Comoros president, colonel Assumani Azzali, on April 25 brought the finance bill into life as [...]
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The director general (since 1996) of the Institut Geographique et Hydrographique National Malgache (FTM in its Malagasy initials) is chairman [...]
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US president Bill Clinton has nominated an Afro-American specialist of Portuguese-speaking countries who speaks Portuguese fluently (and also French and [...]
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The former chartered accountant who resigned from PriceWaterhouse Coopers expects [...]
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The privately-owned South African company Global Pacific & Partners International [...]
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The Portuguese government has named the present board chairman of [...]
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The British companies Hoyas Investments, Soxa Investments, and Verseoix Investments, [...]
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The Norwegian company Norex Mining and Energy has linked up [...]
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After pulling out of Sudan and Tanzania, now Italy's state-owned [...]
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