Five years in power, and Tigray People's Liberation Front, hard-core of the ruling EPRDF in Addis Ababa, has put in place a whole web of trading companies which guarantee the Front an economic monopoly in Tigre Region.
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The head of the political consultants BK2F, Alexis A. Beresnikoff, wrote on October 11 to The Indian Ocean Newsletter to [...]
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European Union has named a new head of delegation on Mauritius: Gerd Jarchow of Germany. Jarchow, 55, who speaks English [...]
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Guests attending the meeting for electricity utilities from Africa and the Indian Ocean region organized in Paris this week by [...]
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France has chosen a Latin American specialist as incoming ambassador to Ethiopia, taking over from Louis Amigues. Alain Rouquié, 57, [...]
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Three South African leaders of the first order should be passing through Paris sometime in November. A visit by deputy [...]
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Fire believed to be arson raged through the administrative wing of the presidential palace, where head of state France Albert [...]
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Former US under secretary of state for African affairs Herman Cohen, who in addition to the chairmanship of Coalition for [...]
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US secretary of state Warren Christopher's recent proposal to set up an African military dissuasion force, presented during his African [...]
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The Invincible Defense Group Transcendental Meditation, a Fairfield (Iowa, USA) based consultancy, has opened a Web site vaunting the merits [...]
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Over the past three and a half months, or 110 days, prime minister Navin Ramgoolam has spent very exactly one [...]
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The Ugandan government has reinforced the controls on Rwandan refugees of Hutu tribes residing in the south of the country [...]
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The first week of campaigning for Madagascar's presidential election (due November 3) ended with three of the fifteen candidates apparently [...]
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A group of fourteen French scientists led by Bernard Bigot, [...]
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Leaders of the three rival factions in Mogadiscio, Ali Mahdi [...]
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The new US ambassador to Mauritius, Harold Geisel, is currently [...]
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The Tinderet MP was appointed environment and natural resources minister [...]
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On a visit to Johannesburg this week, Portuguese foreign minister [...]
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The trial of Taye Wolde Semayat, chairman of Ethiopian Teachers' [...]
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The possibility that Bhinod Bacha, former head of the civil [...]
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After the tightrope work on the Banque de Djibouti et du Moyen Orient bad-payers dossier, which seems to be on [...]
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The annual report on Reunion Island from France's Institut d'Emission des Départements d'Outre Mer underlines once again the characteristic picture [...]
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The partial-privatization of South African state-owned enterprises will commence in March 1997 with telecommunications utility Telkom. This will be followed [...]
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The Seychelles' allocation under the European Development Fund 8th programme looks in danger of being no more than payment of [...]
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Sofcam, a company founded by persons close to the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front in Addis Ababa (such as [...]
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The European Union is to finance two projects for Kenya, one to support the development of small firms and the [...]
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The Portuguese group Banco Mello, which recently bought up Banco Comercial de Moçambique, has problems with this former state-owned bank [...]
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Eritrea Electric Authority has issued a Call for international bids (closing date mid-December) for the construction of a 80-MW diesel-powered [...]
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The International Monetary Fund on October 11 approved an enhanced [...]
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Transport and communications minister John Nasasira recently named a commission [...]
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