President Mohamed Ibrahim Egal's decision of May 14 to declare the European Union's Nairobi-based representative in Somalia, Sigurd Illing of Germany, persona non grata in Somaliland, has sparked a huge crisis among humanitarian organizations working in Somalia.
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The cabinet director of former French cooperation minister Bernard Debré (since early 1995) has been appointed head of France's aid [...]
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The former technical counsellor in French ex-cooperation minister Bernard Debré's cabinet is to be the next head of France's aid [...]
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Hard in the footsteps of national assembly chairman Pius Msekwa, science, technology and higher education minister Benjamin Mkapa, and deputy [...]
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The new Swedish development agency to be formed July first plans to open an office in Uganda which will be [...]
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Madagascar's new ambassador to Ethiopia, who is also accredited to the Organization of African Unity and the United Nations Economic [...]
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The withdrawal from the government on May 2 (ION N° 670) of two ministers members of Leader/Fanilo of Herizo Razafimahaleo [...]
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Zimbabwe head of state Robert Mugabe's official visit to the United States, from May 18 to 22 was marred just [...]
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In a report released this week, the South African parliament's foreign affairs committee noted heavy distortion between the distribution of [...]
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The Roman Catholic community Sant'Egidio, which has close links with the Vatican and has already played at being a mediator [...]
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The United States has warned Uganda of the danger that the country's new constitution might set up a government which [...]
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The May 23 proclamation of the official results of Ethiopia's May 7 regional and general elections (ION N° 671) is [...]
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The International Forum on the Indian Ocean Region (IFIOR) to be held in Perth (Western Australia) from June 11 to [...]
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Two Oromo anti-government political movements have issued grave accusations against their rival, the Oromo Liberation Front (which they quit some [...]
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Italian, Mozambican, Portuguese and South African farmers are trying to buy up or get concessions on tens of thousands of [...]
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The World Bank has put out for study three new loan projects at concessional interest rates which its subsidiary International [...]
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The parastatal Caisse Française de Développement (CFD) has approved two loans to private South African enterprises for a total amount [...]
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Negotiations led by the head of state Said Mohamed Djohar's special counsellor (and "counsellor for trade matters" at the Comoros [...]
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Uganda's private bankers are hunting for foreign partners who can recapitalize their funds in order to toe the line and [...]
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France's new head of state Jacques Chirac has named the former foreign minister Alain Juppé as prime minister and no [...]
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Head of state Daniel arap Moi and the governmental party KANU this week continued stridently denouncing the new political opposition [...]
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Italian development aid is shrinking to a shadow of its former self: from 0.20 percent of GDP in 1993 it [...]
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Sudan's deputy foreign minister, the Southern bishop Gabriel Rorich, has [...]
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Apart from the existing connection between Cabora Bassa and the [...]
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Britain's KCA has been retained to drill three wildcats so [...]
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The European Commissioner for Development responsible for Africa, Joao De [...]
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The conference of the national council of Forces Vives (presidential [...]
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The agronomic science faculty of Gembloux University (Belgium) is carrying [...]
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The Democratic Party opposition MP has accused the party leader [...]
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The chairman of Reunion Island regional council (and wife of [...]
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The World Bank was not represented at the World Economic [...]
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South Africa's head of state is to make an official [...]
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Speaking in Mogadiscio on May 13, the spokesperson of the [...]
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