Ever since his election, head of state Thabo Mbeki has been dragging around the millstone of his erstwhile 'alliance' with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, chairperson of the African National Congress (ANC) Women's League. Clearly, he doesn't know how to dump it (ION [.
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Six legal opposition political parties some of them with elected members in parliament and which are going to stand in [...]
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The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC opposition) wants to keep control of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) the [...]
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Before leaving Antananarivo on January 13 for Paris, enroute to the Africa-France summit in Yaounde, head of state Didier Ratsiraka [...]
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Already at odds with its numerous rivals, Somalia’s interim government also has to face internal strife which most of the [...]
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Under the name of Wahata (Fighters for Justice), a clandestine group distributed a letter dated January 5 to Moslems on [...]
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In the framework of the XXI summit of the Franco/African [...]
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After a long period without significant subsidies from friendly countries due to pament arrears to donors the Seychelles has received [...]
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Highly Respected by the directors of the Central Electricity Board (CEB) with whom it has worked for a long time, [...]
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The environment directorate of Djibouti's ministry of the same name recently filed a legal complaint in Djibouti against the three [...]
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The French representatives to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Jean-Claude Milleron and Gilles Bauche, expressed a few reserves during the [...]
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Mozambique’s construction sector companies whose majority shares are held 49% by Portuguese interests are up in arms against what defacto [...]
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A delegation led by the minister of state for planning [...]
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The American Embassy in Addis Ababa has problems with its [...]
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A report written by Pierre Weiss an expert on constitutional law for the European Union (EU), in the framework of [...]
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The NGO Christian Solidarity International (CSI) based at Binz in Switzerland who is specialized in the "purchase" of Sudanese slaves [...]
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Acts of piratery are multiplying on Lake Tanganyika, two of whose lakeside countries (Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo) are [...]
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The American governmental agency Trade and Development Agency (TDA) is decidedly very interested by satellite communications in Mozambique and in [...]
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The Mauritian company Happy World Foods belonging to Rene Seeyave and the Bourbon group belonging to the Reunion Island businessman [...]
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Anxious to satisfy European Union (UE) norms in terms of maximum level of chemical residue for their fresh exportation products [...]
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The interim director of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) organization in charge of controlling the Mauritius financial sector has just [...]
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Albert Luthuli first president of the African National Congress in 1912’s (ANC) young nephew has left the advertising agency Azaguys [...]
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The non-official advisor to president Daniel arap Moi for the questions concerning the East African Region and president of Lonrho [...]
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The former mayor of Loures (Portugese city just outside Lisbon) from 1990 to 1999, has just been appointed to run [...]
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Friend of the vice-president of the Malagasy national assembly recently [...]
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Contrary to what the Indian Ocean Newsletter indicated (ION 932) [...]
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The Comoros president Assoumani Azzali did not appreciate not being [...]
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The Interport Financial, division of Shen Milsom & Wilke, obtained [...]
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Geothermal Development Associates (GDA) boss George Martin Booth III is [...]
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The Djibouti ministers cabinet has just authorized the creation of [...]
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