The arrest on Madagascar in January of seven members of the local Khoja (Shiite) community and Malagasy accomplices allegedly implicated in kidnapping operations with ransom demands may have brought into view a part of an international criminal network.
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Separatists on Anjouan Island this week officially launched the idea of a confederal union of three states on the Comoros [...]
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Through its overseas territory of Reunion Island, Paris wangles in as current (revolving) chairman of the Indian Ocean Commission at [...]
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Head of state Robert Mugabe is believed to be preparing a government reshuffle, which he might announce after the April [...]
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Madagascar's general elections will be held on May 17 (ION N° 807) under the new voting conditions laid down last [...]
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Two lorries loaded with firearms hidden under other merchandise and brought out of Toamasina port without exit documents were intercepted [...]
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Djibouti minister of public works, urbanism and housing Hassan Farah Miguil (Issa, Fourlaba) is implicated in an affair of embezzling [...]
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Four Somali warlords who squabble over control of Mogadiscio agreed in Nairobi this week to reopen the town's port and [...]
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A process of normalization of relations between Eritrea and Yemen is under way which goes beyond the conflict of sovereignty [...]
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The chairman of National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) indicated [...]
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In this year's Speech to the Nation on April 13, [...]
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During a recent tour of the United States, South African [...]
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During an almost unnoticed declaration on his recent stay in [...]
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Another round of negotiations between the Sudanese government and the [...]
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In the framework of the investigations having led to the [...]
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Following a raid on April 10 from Karimajong into the [...]
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A former manager of the state-owned Socopotram (maritime transport) who [...]
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Following the editorial in The Indian Ocean Newsletter of April 4 1998 ("Mauritius: Treasure Island") on the transshipment of Patagonian [...]
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Electricity supply problems have got so bad in Djibouti that the manager of the national company Electricité de Djibouti (EDD), [...]
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If tobacco prices at auction sales stay at the present low level, Zimbabwe is going to find revenue from tobacco [...]
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South Africa's rail and port workers union has acquired an 8 percent holding (worth about 60 million rands, $12 million) [...]
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In its monthly analysis of the Kenyan economy, the central bank has just confirmed the continuation during the first quarter [...]
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Ugandan fiscal revenues have marked a decline leading the authorities to review their arrangements for tariffs on imports. For this [...]
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To the country's five international airports (Maputo and Vilankulo in the south, Beira in the centre, Nampula and Pemba in [...]
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The European Union is getting ready to give its green light to a programme of 60.9 million Ecus intended to [...]
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The company Electricité De France signed an important nuclear engineering [...]
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Half a dozen Italian investors have associated with the Ethiopian [...]
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Somaliland president Ibrahim Mohamed Egal is believed to have signed [...]
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After the marked success of the first public sale of [...]
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The chairman of National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) James Motlatsi is among the dozen or so new independent and external [...]
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It is the former editor in chief of Le Quotidien who was a journalist on the daily Le Mauricien, Jacques [...]
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The Madagascar branch of BNI Credit Lyonnais has a new director general since the end of February, Daniel Bourgery. He [...]
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Lieutenant-colonel Omar Bouh, commanding the Djibouti army's Force d'Action Rapide (rapid action force) which has spearheaded government operations against Afar [...]
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