The successful attack and capture of the Sudanese township of Kaya (west of the Nile at 30 km north of the Ugandan frontier) on March 9 by Sudan People's Liberation Army headed by colonel John Garang then the progress towards [.
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With five times less votes than in 1992 and a turnout of less than 7 percent of registered voters, the [...]
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The stopoff in Paris by head of state Didier Ratsiraka enroute to Washington (ION N° 756) did not suffice to [...]
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In a confidential report of October 21 addressed to French overseas territories minister Jean Jacques De Peretti, the prefect of [...]
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Officials of NGOs in Eritrea, some of which have been there for many years, have been jolted by instructions from [...]
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Mediation in Khartoum by Muhamad Abu Al Qasim Hajj Hamad, a Sudanese who holds Eritrean nationality and acts as an [...]
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Ethiopian army chief of staff general Tsadkan Gebre Tensai effected a visit to France this week at the invitation of [...]
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Movement by road on the Comoros Islands has been paralyzed since March 10 by an open-ended strike of taxi drivers [...]
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South African defence minister Joe Modise this week named a [...]
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The United Nations and Organization of African Unity special representative [...]
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Head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim on March 3 [...]
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The former head of administration at the British embassy in [...]
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Following a recent article in The Indian Ocean Newsletter (ION [...]
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Head of state Didier Ratsiraka is believed to have the [...]
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The International Organism for Drug Control report for 1996 has raised the spectre of the increase of cocaine entering the [...]
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In addition to budget difficulties and cash problems, Djibouti finance minister Mohamed Ali Mohamed is confronted with a net degradation [...]
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A new meeting on the tariffs for electricity from Mozambique's Cabora Bassa hydroelectric power plant is scheduled in Lisbon on [...]
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Acting as chairman of Groupement des Armateurs de la Pêche Crevettière de Madagascar (GAPCM), Aziz Ismail, who is also head [...]
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On the occasion of head of state Robert Mugabe's short visit to Paris last week (ION N°248), the French government [...]
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Rothmans International Company is expected to buy a cigarette manufacturing plant in Ethiopia, at the expense of its US competitor [...]
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During a meeting organized in his honour in Paris, on March 7, by Conseil National du Patronat Français (the French [...]
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The Ugandan government will abandon in next fiscal year the controversial tax on coffee exports which had been reintroduced two [...]
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Although many observers expected to see the chairmanship of Eskom [...]
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For some time, a tax to finance the civil war [...]
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French state-owned utility Electricité de France did not file a [...]
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The European Union national indicative programme signed in Dar es [...]
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The Franco-Lebanese businessman Anthony Gabriel Tannouri, who spent some time in jail in Nice (France) in late 1994 for unduly [...]
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The company with a majority of Black shareholders Naledi Petroleum Investments has founded, in a joint venture with Sasol, a [...]
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Ethiopian army chief of staff major-general Tsadkan Gebre Tensai, who was in France this week, has the reputation of being [...]
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During his recent passage through Paris, head of state Didier Ratsiraka did not conceal that he was little satisfied with [...]
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