Elected unopposed as chairman of African National Congress (government party) this week, South African deputy president Thabo Mbeki has gone into orbit and will land as the successor of incumbent president Nelson Mandela after the 1999 general and presidential elections.
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All signals are at red since the general strike of December 9 sparked by the Zimbabwean government decision to increase [...]
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A new paramilitary unit of combat against cattle rustlers has been created in the north-east part of Uganda under the [...]
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The Tanzanian army has accumulated a slate of 4 billion Tanzanian shillings since September for unpaid electricity bills due to [...]
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The Inter-Comoros Conference in Addis Ababa opened on December 11 and closed on December 13 at 2 a.m., with the [...]
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The president of Somaliland, Mohamed Ibrahim Egal, informed the Guurti (parliament) in Hargeisa on December 16 of his decision to [...]
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The Seychelles government has decided to reorganize its diplomatic representation abroad. In an economy drive, the Seychelles embassy in France, [...]
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Thanks to the current international rescue operation for populations hit by the floods in Somalia, agencies of the United Nations [...]
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For about three weeks, head of state Isaias Afwerki has been almost immobilized with a serious back problem. Partly confined [...]
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The dismissal of the attorney general, Sinai Nhatitima, after parliament [...]
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Head of state Daniel arap Moi has appointed John Harun [...]
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Norway's new ambassador to Uganda, Arild Retvedt Oyen, presented his [...]
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The Seychelles government has been unable to adhere to the timetables it had set itself in successive budgets in respect [...]
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Despite the narrowness of the Ugandan market for their large companies, the United States are looking, not without some difficulty, [...]
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After dropping from 45 billion Djibouti francs in 1991 to 28 billion DF in January 1997 (ION N° 757 and [...]
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Statistics of Britain's newly created Department For International Development (DFID) indicate that Tanzania and Uganda were the two principal beneficiaries [...]
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The government of Zanzibar is believed to be in discussions with a South African company with a view to buying [...]
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For the first time in a very long stretch, the Chambre de Commerce Franco-Arabe held a meeting on Sudan in [...]
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The parastatal Caisse Française de Développement (CFD) has awarded a complementary subsidy of FFr.2.5 million to finance bringing up to [...]
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The parastatal Caisse Française de Développement (CFD) has intervened for [...]
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An important project for a total amount of US$82 million [...]
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The retirement of the Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (KPTC) [...]
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The Mauritius representatives of international accountants Price Waterhouse have some [...]
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The former prime minister of the Free State, Patrick "Terror" Lekota, who was removed from that post by the African [...]
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The MP for Buikwi, in Mokono District, Chei Onyango Kakoba has been elected to head a group of eighty young [...]
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Trench warfare has broken out between the chairman of the board of Tanzania Posts Corporation (TPC), David Wakati, and his [...]
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Deputy minister of mining and energy since August 1991, Shemsedin Ahmed has just lost his government functions at the same [...]
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