One year after South African head of state Nelson Mandela triumphally topped the ballot in april 1994, the "new" Republic of South Africa is still obsessed with its domestic problems and braced to defend its vital trade and industrial interests.
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The contract to rehabilitate the HT grid transmission line between Cabora Bassa and the Republic of South Africa which has [...]
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Menon Airways' managing director and principal shareholder Gopi K. Menon announced in Dubai at the end of June that his [...]
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Uganda's foreign minister Ruhakana Rugunda reacted explosively on July 11 to suggestions from his Kenyan opposite number Kalonzo Musyoka that [...]
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The Seychelles national assembly last week heard finance minister James Michel explain the government's new measures to stiffen its shaky [...]
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The European Union has allocated ECU 9.3 million (just over US$12 million) to the Programme Régional Intégré de Développement des [...]
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During a conference in Paris from July 6 to 8 on the theme "Religious dynamics and political power in Eastern [...]
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Prime minister Anerood Jugnauth took advantage of his visit to Brussels on July 5 to 7 to ask the European [...]
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In a recent letter to the United Nations Security Council, [...]
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South Africa's Sun International group is believed to be considering [...]
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For the first time an international security firm working for [...]
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Local sources assert that a Libyan delegation did go to [...]
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Zimbabwe's local government minister announced on July 11 that the [...]
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Mauritius' secretary for foreign affairs (head of the ministry of external affairs) Vilay Singh Makhan was appointed deputy secretary general [...]
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Careful investigation has confirmed reports published in The Indian Ocean Newsletter (ION N° 660 and 669) that Mohamed Ali Farah [...]
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The former deputy chief executive of the Commonwealth Development Corporation, Alistair Boyd, CMG, has been designated as chairman of Southern [...]
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Two weeks before an informal meeting of Kenya's international fund donors at the World Bank offices in Paris on July [...]
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A stormy debate in Madagascar's parliament on a motion of censure against prime minister Francisque Ravony wound up late on [...]
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Uganda's security services detained two South Africans in May on suspicion of being members of a commando hired to assassinate [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from sources close to Uganda's National Resistance Army general staff, military [...]
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The journey of South African head of state Nelson Mandela to Maputo to preside the July 8 centennial ceremonies of [...]
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The successful International Forum on the Indian Ocean Region held in Perth, Western Australia, in mid-June (ION N° 676) has [...]
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Ethiopia's decision to halt cooperation with Egyptian police officers investigating the attempted assassination of Egyptian head of state Hosni Mubarak [...]
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Ugandan head of state Yoweri Museveni is reported to be increasingly worried about the danger of a plot might be [...]
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While Egyptian diplomacy accuses Sudan of having fomented the attempt in Addis Ababa to assassinate Egyptian head of state Hosni [...]
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The Kenya Airways boss announced in Nairobi last week that [...]
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South African head of state Nelson Mandela has invited his [...]
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General Abdel Rahman Said, who is Number Two man in [...]
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The South African defence minister was expected in Moscow this [...]
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The deputy prime minister of the People's Republic of China [...]
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Zimbabwe-born Reverend Clement Shaba, who is currently a bishop in [...]
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