A number of missions to assess international aid to Madagascar are expected to arrive in the capital, Antananarivo in the next few weeks. A preliminary mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was due to arrive on 16 January.
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Djibouti's President Hassan Gouled Aptidon this week appointed Idriss Harbi Farah to the head of the health ministry, replacing the [...]
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Zimbabwe's President last week held a low-key meeting in Blantyre, in southern Malawi, with Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama. Malawi's President [...]
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The new delegate to the European Commission in Mozambique has taken up his post. He is Donato Chiarini, well-known in [...]
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Tanzania's president has appointed Idris Rashid, director of the National Bank of Commerce (NBC). Previously, Idris Rashid was director of [...]
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Former school principle aged 55, he was recently dismissed by the adult education organisation that hired him. According to the [...]
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Defeated in a military battle by the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) in the seventies, the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) [...]
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Fighting in Bosaso on 5 January, when a UNICEF doctor, Martinka Pumpalova was killed and two Somali assistants wounded, is [...]
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According to some sources, the South African and Zimbabwean authorities are said to be in the process of discussing the [...]
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The personal representative in Portugal of the leader of the rebel movement Renamo, in Mozambique, Jose Augusto is no longer [...]
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Djibouti's health minister's resignation on 14 January may be followed by others in the near future. In his resignation letter, [...]
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Kenya's vice-president and finance minister, George Saitoti defined, on 11 January the process used by Kanu, the ruling party, to [...]
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A delegation from the provisional government of Eritrea led by foreign minister, Mohamed Sayeed Barry, and the Eritrean representative in [...]
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According to Radio Addis Ababa, captured by the BBC on January 8, representatives of the Gugura community, which until now [...]
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One of the sons of the former prime minister of Sudan, Sadiq al Mahdi was arrested at Khartoum airport allegedly [...]
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A joint statement signed by the co-president of the Union des Mouvements Démocratiques (UMD), Aden Robleh Awaleh and the president [...]
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A group calling itself Uganda African Trade Movement has sent [...]
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Zanzibar's president Salmin Amour, on 12 January, categorically rejected the [...]
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The European Community has announced it plans lift its embargo [...]
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Since the recent military cooperation accords between Sudan and Iran, [...]
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Demonstrations of homeowners whose homes were declared national property under the former regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam, were held last [...]
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Several textile plants are expected to be set up this year on the Mauritian isle of Rodrigues. The first will [...]
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The European Community has approved a 30 million ecu loan (about 39 million dollars) to the Mozambican government to help [...]
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As Somaliland's economic activities start to take off slowly, trade relations are building up between this and other countries in [...]
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The European Community has allocated Madagascar 2.3 million ecus (nearly three million dollars) to increase alevin breeding to 270 tonnes [...]
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Director of the Kenyan Parastatals Reform Programme Committee, John Simba, announced last week, that the first privatisations of state firms [...]
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In 1992, South African electricity company Eskom, aims to connect a further 160,000 homes to its electricity grid, this is [...]
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The Tanzanian National Assembly, will next month have to debate two major draft bills on the liberalisation of foreign exchange [...]
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The European Investment Bank (EIU) has approved a credit of [...]
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The African Development Bank (ADB), has granted two loans to [...]
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The governments of Mozambique and Angola are expected to be [...]
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The leader of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA), is [...]
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The French junior foreign minister is set to embark on [...]
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The former chairman of the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims [...]
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Former Ugandan agriculture minister, Robert Katiriko was arrested on 15 [...]
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This week in Riyad, the Djiboutian prime minister said his [...]
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Djiboutian chairman of the Association for the Defence of Human [...]
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On a visit to Mauritius, this Seychelles opposition leader was [...]
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