The Sudanese government is favouring the emergence of united opposition fronts in each of its neighbours (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda) in a bid to avenge the support the three countries are giving Sudanese rebel members of National Democratic Alliance.
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The South Africans turned out to be much tougher in the tripartite sub-committee (of Mozambique, Portugal and Republic of South [...]
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Foreign oil Majors in Mozambique are up in arms over the Mozambican government's decree modifying the importing and distribution of [...]
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Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunications giant, is to get the lion's share of the multi-million telecoms contract in Ethiopia. The company [...]
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The Republic of South Africa began reorganization of the telecommunications sector last week by setting up South Africa Telecommunications Regulatory [...]
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Youthful ex-retired general Salim Saleh seems to hit the nail on the head in describing himself as "a soldier with [...]
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Every year, the same old story with awarding the shrimp fishing licences: virtually a game of "Musical chairs" as umpteen [...]
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The visit to Mozambique last week of a bipartite (government and private sector) Mauritian delegation led by deputy prime minister [...]
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French junior minister for development Jacques Godfrain is expected on Mauritius on February 26 heading a delegation of businessmen from [...]
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US companies Motorola and Qualcomm might divide up the lucrative [...]
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Danish development minister Poul Nielsen, on a visit to Nairobi [...]
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The Republic of South Africa has announced that foreign participation [...]
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The director of political affairs in Kenya's foreign ministry Green Hannington Ogola Josiah has been appointed High Commissioner to Australia. [...]
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Among the French nationals who went to Madagascar to attend the February 9 inauguration of president-elect Didier Ratsiraka (ION N° [...]
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Mauritian ambassador to Switzerland and permanent representative to the United Nations European Office, in Geneva, since May 1996, Dhurmahdass Baichoo [...]
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Iran's new ambassador to Kenya, Mohamed Kazem Hassani Tabatabai, has presented his Letters of Credence to Kenyan head of state [...]
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The last month of 1996 was marked by a whole series of assassinations, some completely inexplicable, which are pretty symptomatic [...]
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More than 600,000 Tanzanians are suffering from the country's present drought conditions and some 470,000 already need urgent food assistance, [...]
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It didn't taken long after head of state Didier Ratsiraka's inauguration on February 9 for the first unseemly rows between [...]
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Even before Madagascar's Constitutional High Court had officially declared Didier Ratsiraka to be the winner of the December 29 presidential [...]
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The ill-treatment of detainees seems to be endemic in Uganda's military prisons as the authorities grapple with a growing number [...]
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Italy's special envoy for Somalia ambassador Giuseppe Cassini announced in Mogadiscio this week that he would be joined in his [...]
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The "Dead Towns Day" called by the Comoros Islands opposition on February 13 (ION N° 753) lived up to its [...]
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Ethiopian authorities have kept radio silence to date on peace negotiations they were due to commence with Afar Revolutionary Democratic [...]
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The European Union permanent representative to the Republic of South [...]
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Madagascar's newly-resigned deputy prime minister may be appointed director general [...]
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Head of state Nelson Mandela has his first mediation job [...]
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Djibouti's foreign minister was due to meet French junior minister [...]
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National Democratic Alliance announced on February 19 that general Ali [...]
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The Zimbabwean authorities have finally decided to declare Jang Myong [...]
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