The Rwandan crisis has pushed Uganda's head of state Yoweri Museveni into the role of regional referee. At a time when countries all around are shifting and unstable, the regime he installed by force of arms in 1986 can today [.
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Head of state Daniel arap Moi recently carried out a major reshuffle in Kenya's armed forces, naming major general Nick [...]
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The newly-elected president of Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD), Ali Mohamed Daoud (aka Jean [...]
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The candidature of the head of the Southern Africa desk of the European Commission, Giovanni Livi, in the recent Italian [...]
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Mauritius' former finance minister Vishnu Lutchmeenaraidoo, who made a successful political comeback recently by launching the Mouvement des Démocrates Libéraux, [...]
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The state-owned Union Lighterage Company will cease operations in Mahe Port on July 31 and will be replaced by four [...]
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The South African general staff thesis on re-equipping the country's armed forces is making some progress within the ranks of [...]
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Three countries of Southern Africa (plus the Cameroon in West Africa) saw an increase in 1993 of the financial aid [...]
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Mauritian prime minister Anerood Jugnauth last week accepted the call by the Leader of the Opposition (and of the Labor [...]
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Results of the six-month shadow reform programme (concluded last month) which the International Monetary Fund and the Tanzanian government had [...]
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A mission from the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank subsidiary for aid to the private sector, was in Nairobi [...]
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French aircraft maker Dassault is competing against several other constructors on the restricted market of aircraft for East African heads [...]
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Madagascar's minister for culture and communications, Tsilavina Ralaindimby, was in France last week on the occasion of the second Francophone [...]
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An expert mission from the World Bank subsidiary International Development [...]
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International Development Association (a subsidiary of the World Bank) has [...]
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Finance minister Ahmed Aden Youssouf and Caisse Française de Développement [...]
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Reacting tardily to reports of the Seychellois government's sale of part of the arms cargo seized on the Greek freighter [...]
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Mozambique's head of state Joaquim Chissano last week admitted twice there had been diplomatic pressure on him to agree to [...]
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Preliminary discussions between leaders and militant supporters of Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD) in [...]
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Somaliland's president, Mohamed Ibrahim Egal, announced in Hargeisa last week that he had asked Egyptian head of state Hosni Mubarak [...]
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Prime minister Francisque Ravony was expected to face a parliamentary debate, as The Indian Ocean Newsletter closed for press, on [...]
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A long-running real estate argument involving the property owned at Mirereni, on the French overseas territory of Mayotte, by the [...]
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The Kenyan postal and telecommunication authorities last week cut off [...]
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French officials organizing president François Mitterrand's visit to the Republic [...]
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The Reunion Island court of appeal on July 8 released [...]
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At the end of the recent visit to Madagascar by [...]
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The New York State supreme court has sentenced Demere Gobena [...]
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According to the South African publication Weekly Mail, the Palestinian [...]
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Speaking in Moscow on July 12 to Russian ambassadors holding [...]
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