The drafting of new parliamentary regulations and the adoption of the 1994 Finance Bill head the agenda for the inauguration of Madagascar's national assembly, which is due to meet for its first working session on September 28.
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Zimbabwe has decided to sell off Z$3 billion (US$461 million) of its holding in the state enterprise Zimbabwe Iron and [...]
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The industry minister, Jean Claude De L'Estrac, recently returned from South Africa after heading a trade mission during which some [...]
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The United States' new ambassador to Mauritius is expected to take up his post at the end of September, after [...]
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International economic groups working in Mozambique are currently under siege by two Portuguese, Antonio Rebelo De Sousa and Jose Telles [...]
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South Africa's director general in the finance ministry, Gerhard Croeser, will hand over his duties when he leaves in October [...]
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The September 13 closure of candidate lists for the Comoros' general and local councillor elections scheduled for October 10 and [...]
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The Seychelles' new ambassador to the United States presented his credentials to the head of state, Bill Clinton, on September [...]
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John Maree, whose chairmanships include South Africa's Eskom electricity utility, the Denel group (the civilian branch of the arms manufacturer [...]
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The European Development Fund (EDF) is considering making a grant of ECU 1.3 million (US$1.44 million) to the Comoros Islands [...]
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Mauritius' head of state this week began a tour of [...]
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The multiparty conference on the country's electoral law resumed work [...]
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Rakotondrazafy Edmond, the counsellor to Madagascar's head of state, Albert [...]
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Exporters in Zimbabwe have halted their expansion project for Mozambique's [...]
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According to estimates by the cane sugar growers association, the [...]
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The head of political affairs for UNOSOM 2 had some cold shivers last month when he flew to Coriolei, a [...]
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A fresh wave of religious demonstrations has flared up along Kenya's coastline, following the fire, attributed to Islamic demonstrators, of [...]
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As each year, the World Bank annual report rounds up its activities and analyses economic performances in the divers regions [...]
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The European Community may shortly release a subsidy worth ECU 7.1 million (US$7.87 million) from its European Development Fund (EDF) [...]
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Patriarch Paulos of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EtOC) and five bishops recently visited Eritrea and met twice with the head [...]
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France's foreign ministry stated on September 14 that it was "preoccupied to note that the continued conflict between Djibouti government [...]
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According to information from Gondar Development and Cooperation Organisation in Washington and the armed opposition group Kefagn Patriotic Front, armed [...]
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The new director general of Deutsche Stiftung für internationale Entwicklung (DSE, Germany's foundation for international development), Heinz Bühler, has taken [...]
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The recent visit to Hargeisa by UNOSOM 2's head of political affairs, Leonard Kamungo, turned into a calamitous disaster, according [...]
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Discreet talks are under way in a bid to obtain the release of a Nigerian member of a United Nations [...]
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Egypt's head of state (and current chairman of Organisation of [...]
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Following the information published in Indian Ocean Newsletter on December [...]
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The leader of the opposition party, Democratic Party, the Reverend [...]
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An old Africa hand and one of the best-known Anglo-Saxon [...]
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