Debate on "Majimbo" (from the Swahili word "Jimbo" for state or region and taken to imply federalism) took on new dimensions last week when, on the eve of the new parliamentary session, eight MPs (three of them serving ministers) from [.
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Lisane Yohannes, the permanent representative in Mogadiscio since 1992 of the Inter-African Committee of Reconciliation (the five-nation body presided by [...]
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Portugal's Socialist Party is split over Mozambique's general elections. In one camp, a party member from Porto, Antonio Peres, who [...]
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According to some Somali sources, colonel Abdulahi Yussuf Ahmed, the contested leader of Somali Salvation Democratic Front (SSDF) who was [...]
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The list of electoral "dirty tricks" appears to include the payment of 10,000 meticais (US$1.5 at the official exchange rate) [...]
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The second congress of Parti du Renouveau Démocratique (PRD, opposition), due to have been held at Obock in the northern [...]
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According to an Arab diplomatic sources, Saudi Arabia and Djibouti are studying the possibility of the Horn of Africa country [...]
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When the Reunion Island chamber of commerce sent off the invitations for the inauguration, on November 26, of the new, [...]
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Madagascar's minister of state for rural development and land reform Emmanuel Rakotovahiny has just undertaken a three-week swing through the [...]
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According to the Egyptian news agency MENA, Libya's permanent representative to the Arab League, Mohamed Ibrahim Al-Bishari, announced in Cairo [...]
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Ethiopian head of state Meles Zenawi made an official visit [...]
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Ugandan head of state Yoweri Museveni admitted on October 9 [...]
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The African National Congress pulled out of the provincial government [...]
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African nations have overcome technical problems (such as poor quality telephone lines) and administrative hurdles (often restrictive legislation) but nevertheless [...]
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Encouraged by Madagascar's prime minister Francisque Ravony, finance minister Jose Yvon Raserjaona is ready to haul into court the directors [...]
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The Seychelles government has gone to the barricades to defend its unpopular monopoly on rice imports. It has reportedly offered [...]
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The Paris-based bank Lazard Frères has had some problems with a credit line of US$35 million it tried to arrange [...]
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Eritrea's customs administration introduced new customs tariffs which came into effect on October 5 and cover imports, exports, prohibited goods [...]
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Caisse Française de Développement (CFD) last month authorized loans to Mauritius, Mozambique and Reunion Island. The FFr.30 million loan to [...]
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Kenya's head of state Daniel arap Moi, five government ministers, four principal secretaries, and a clutch of officials from Kenyan [...]
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The Southern Africa Development Community's Mining Coordinating Unit and the [...]
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Tobacco exports are expected to bring in more than US$250 [...]
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Former French ambassador to Mauritania Michel Raimbaud is to take over from Claude Losguardi in Sudan (ION N° 589). The [...]
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The recent appointment of Ariston Chambati to the 138-member central committee of Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party is taken as a [...]
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The Seychelles Democratic Party (opposition) led by former head of state James Mancham is going through a grave internal crisis [...]
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Incoming Spanish ambassador to The Seychelles Fermin Pietro-Castro Roumier presented his Letters of Credence to head of state France Albert [...]
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The Comoros prime minister returned to Moroni on October 6 [...]
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Salamao Muchanga and four other officials of RENAMO's youth league [...]
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The South African head of state is to make an [...]
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The University of Witwatersrand's department of international economic relations recently [...]
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The former deputy director of Caisse Française de Développement in [...]
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