After having discreetly obtained the endorsement of the previous Comoros Islands regime in November 1998 (ION 847), a group of American and Dutch businessmen is going ahead with preparations for its ambitious offshore telecommunications project using the archipelago's dialling code [.
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The day after the mass resignation of the European Commission's twenty Commissioners, the Commissioner for ACP country relations and development, [...]
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Returning to Hargeisa last week after a visit to Egypt and Yemen, Somaliland president Ibrahim Mohamed Egal admitted he still [...]
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Despite the Ugandan government's denials, Angolan rebels in UNITA headed by Jonas Savimbi are believed to have twice had Ugandan [...]
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The number of foreigners having obtained Seychelles nationality for "special circumstances" has largely diminished since the government of Mahe suspended [...]
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The government of Zimbabwe on March 17 refused the offer of aid from the American FBI in the framework of [...]
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One month from the date planned by Organization of African Unity to organize on Madagascar a Comoran inter-island conference (April [...]
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Despite the prefecture's refusal of authorization, Rassemblement pour la Défense des Valeurs Républicaines (RDVR, radical opposition) organized a street demonstration [...]
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The Djibouti authorities have organized a counterfire operation following NGOs' international campaign denouncing the sentencing and detention conditions of Djibouti [...]
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The head of Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) is due [...]
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The Puntland parliament met in Garowe on March 11 for [...]
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The French ambassador in Moroni, Gaston Le Paudert, is due [...]
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RENAMO leader Afonso Dhlakama told a Beira radio station this [...]
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Two weeks after the parliamentary censure which led the dismissal [...]
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Privatization of Sudan's electricity generation sector is on the way but should be preceded by modifying the national electricity utility's [...]
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British company Barangai Estate Ltd, which buys and exports Tanzanian tea, has still not toed the line after a directive [...]
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One of Kenya's largest banks, Kenya Commercial Bank, on March 18 announced worse-than-expected results. Bank pre-tax profit dropped by 65.8 [...]
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Cuba's present ambassador to the Republic of South Africa, Angel Dalmao, a post he has held for the past three [...]
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The diplomat whom US president Bill Clinton had earmarked last year to be the next ambassador to Sudan is not [...]
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Mozambique's former minister of trade and agriculture and then director of the Faculty of Economy at Maputo University, Joaquim Carvalho, [...]
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The manager of the Madagascar-registered company Victory Mining is believed to have serious problems with Madagascar's secret services (Direction Générale [...]
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Mauritian prime minister Navim Ramgoolam is one of four African officials (along with the heads of state of Botswana, Namibia [...]
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The deputy prime minister and minister for the budget Pierrot Rajaonarivelo gave his approval on March 12 for a series [...]
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Although the South African authorities do not see foresee liberalizing imports of petroleum products before 2002, Afric Oil Pty Ltd [...]
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The presence of increasingly numerous Ethiopian firms in Djibouti (in export-import transactions, transport, and maritime freight) has led the United [...]
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Ethiopia's House of People's Representatives debated at the beginning of March a project for new legislation in the domain of [...]
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Certain ministers of the present Mozambican government draw substantial revenue [...]
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The Mauritian public utilities ministry obtained at the beginning of [...]
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The International Monetary Fund does not seem to be in [...]
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French vehicle builder Citroen may have chosen the wrong time [...]
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Qatari Telecommunications Company (QTC) has acquired 50 percent of the [...]
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The Zimbabwean subsidiary of South African construction firm Murray and [...]
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