The results of last month's multi-party elections (ION N° 692) have unbalanced the opposition in Tanzania, which had expected a triumphant entry into parliament. The simple-majority electoral system has meant that candidates of opposition parties who collected nearly 40 percent [.
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In a communique issued at the beginning of December, Mozambique's Roman Catholic bishops expressed strong criticism of Mozambican political parties [...]
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The dwelling of sultan Ali Mirah, spiritual leader of the Afars and founder of the Afar Liberation Front, was besieged [...]
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Crime has become a "preoccupying" subject both in urban zones and in rural regions of Tanzania, according to a report [...]
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The European Union has welcomed the success of the summit organized in Cairo at the end of November by former [...]
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Following the recent resignation of Ismail Omar Gelleh, who is chef de cabinet (and nephew) of head of state Hassan [...]
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The council of ministers of the government of prime minister Mohamed Caabi El Yachroutu has chosen the dates of January [...]
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The launching of the television campaign for the December 20 election has illustrated the political weakness of prime minister Anerood [...]
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Back from Maastricht (The Netherlands) after attending a meeting of Global Coalition for Africa, the US business organization headed by [...]
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Great Britain last week proposed that the European Union should [...]
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The conference organized in London by Christian Solidarity International and [...]
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According to a representative of the wing of Front pour [...]
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Uganda has just worked out a new strategy, with the help of experts of the United Nations Conference on Trade [...]
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Finally, delegations from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have gone to Madagascar before the end of the [...]
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The International Development Association, a subsidiary of the World Bank, was expected to approve in Washington this week a loan [...]
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In addition to twelve countries (including Mauritius, The Seychelles and Zimbabwe) still eligible for its loans, the African Development Bank [...]
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The multiple visits to Ethiopia of top officials of Equator Bank in Nairobi have apparently not allowed them to find [...]
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Returning from a visit to Cuba last month, South African health minister Nkosazana Zuma had announced a plan to bring [...]
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Several US companies have sent missions to Kampala in the past two months, illustrating their interest in Uganda, where US [...]
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The European Union has agreed to finance, from the funds it has earmarked for South Africa's Reconstruction and Development Programme, [...]
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The report of the European Union's general accounting office on [...]
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The People's Republic of China, which is already supplies Sudan [...]
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Zimbabwe's parliament last week criticized the inefficient management of the [...]
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Given a loser in the Mauritian general elections due on December 20, outgoing prime minister Anerood Jugnauth would like to [...]
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A much-listened-to counsellor of Labour Party leader (and opposition MP) Navin Ramgoolam and doyen of the law faculty of the [...]
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On a working visit to Paris this week, the secretary general of the Organization of African Unity Salim Ahmed Salim [...]
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The two leading Ugandan opposition parties, the Democratic Party and [...]
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France's cooperation minister is expected to make a visit to [...]
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German foreign minister Klaus Kinkel met Kenyan head of state [...]
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The chairman of the Ethiopian Human Rights Council and ten [...]
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