Heading the list of candidates after the first round of the Comoros Islands' presidential election on March 6, Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim (leader of Union Nationale pour la Démocratie aux Comores) is in pole position for the second round and [.
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The European Commission has had some difficulty in concealing its irritation these last days over the accumulated delays in eliminating [...]
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Reunion Island, a French overseas department, has been looking without much success for ways to attract South African investors, stressing [...]
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Uganda's Privatization Unit, the parastatal body responsible for the privatization programme, has launched an international campaign to persuade potential investors [...]
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Heads of South Africa's diplomatic missions in the European Union met in London on March 10 and 11 to compare [...]
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Following an article in The Indian Ocean Newsletter (ION N° 707) reporting an appeal court's confirmation on February 6 of [...]
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The British government is to make a grant of US$1 million to finance a comparative study on a project to [...]
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Opposition circles are multiplying their criticism of the Ethiopian government's privatization policy and suspects it of favouring Ethiopian businessmen from [...]
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The third session of the Anglo-Mauritian fisheries commission, scheduled to be held in Port Louis on March 19 and 20, [...]
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The Djibouti Chamber of Commerce and Industry has protested against [...]
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A draft fishery agreement between Madagascar and Mauritius is now [...]
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Following the finance ministry's measures extending to humanitarian aid the [...]
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The International Monetary Fund delegation which was recently in Maputo [...]
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European Union representatives have decided to introduce concrete benchmarks for continuing the political dialogue they began with the Kenyan government [...]
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A delegation of three members of Sudan's intelligence service led by the deputy director of external security general Ahmed Al [...]
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Preparations for the official voyage of head of state Jacques Chirac to Reunion Island, a French overseas department, from March [...]
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Djibouti interior minister Idriss Harbi Farah announced on March 9 that the faction of Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité [...]
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The absence of official information on the motives of the alleged murderer of the former head of operations department in [...]
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Sudan's diplomats have been multiplying lately their diplomatic interventions in a bid to avoid their country being condemned by the [...]
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In its 1995 report on human rights situations at international level, the US State Department has raised a number of [...]
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The European Union's Nairobi-based special envoy for Somalia, Sigurd Illing, was in northern Mogadiscio from March 9 to 11 for [...]
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In mid-February, Kenya's deputy trade and industry minister Mohamed Galgalo [...]
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During the visit of Eritrea's head of state Isaias Afwerki [...]
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Shelton Jolicoeur, deputy speaker of the Seychelles national assembly, is [...]
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Currently serving at the French embassy in Ankara, Ms. Elisabeth Delegue (née Beton) has been named to replace Jean Boulogne [...]
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The newly-appointed Mauritian ambassador to the United States is, in fact, an old-timer in Washington (ION N° 709). Chitmansing Jesseramsing, [...]
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As reported in The Indian Ocean Newsletter (ION N° 704), US president Bill Clinton on March 11 announced the nomination [...]
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US president Bill Clinton announced on March 5 that he plans to nominate Harold Walter Geisel, a career diplomat with [...]
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British chancellor of the exchequer Kenneth Clarke is due in [...]
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Mauritian industry and technology minister Jayen Cuttaree is to visit [...]
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Peter Muthoka, CEO of Kenya's Export Promotion Council, said last [...]
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France's chief of naval staff admiral Jean Charles Lefevre will [...]
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