Although the normal electoral deadline is still distant, 1996 looks like being a decisive period for picking the successor to head of state Hassan Gouled Aptidon. His two-month absence in France, first for medical treatment and then on convalescence, sharpened [.
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The Eritrean authorities are considering putting up a barrage at Toker, about 50 km from Asmara. The construction would build [...]
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Three heads have lined up to try on the hat of governor of Madagascar's central bank, currently worn pro tem [...]
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Although the programme of financial aid for Djibouti might be submitted to the International Monetary Fund management committee about mid-April [...]
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After having asked the four petroleum product distribution companies (Agip, Mobil, Nile Petroleum Co, Shell) at the beginning of February [...]
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A Russian-controlled company, Amicale Comores Air, is operating inter-island flights in the Comoros Islands after having taken over, at the [...]
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Region Fourteen Council (Addis Ababa) attracted fire and brimstone from the Ethiopian Human Rights Council this week for having authorized [...]
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The voyage to the Republic of South Africa last week of the incoming general manager of the parastatal Caisse Française [...]
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Another meeting, at the beginning of March, of representatives of European Union member-countries devoted to the EU negotiating mandate to [...]
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Parallel to its emergency assistance programme for the utility Eau [...]
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The future of Association Thonière de l'Océan Indien (ATOI), which [...]
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Ethiopian-Saudi businessman Mohamed Al Amoudi has obtained exclusive gold prospecting [...]
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A transport and communications protocol presently being negotiated between member-countries [...]
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French oil major Total has bought up 50 percent of [...]
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International Development Association (a subsidiary of the World Bank) has [...]
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The former deputy secretary general for communications (June 1994) of the Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la [...]
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Since the victory of the Labour Party/Mouvement Militant Mauricien coalition in December's general election, Marie France Roussety has been trying [...]
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Head of state Albert Zafy has appointed eleven special advisers, most of them former collaborators such as Naivo Marius Rakotozafindraibe [...]
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It is finally not Henry Feral, at present under-prefect of the French town of Lens, who has been designated as [...]
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While disgruntled students invaded the streets around the presidential palace in Antananarivo on March 19 where a council of ministers [...]
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During debates at the end of last year with FRELIMO (governmental party) and the Maputo authorities about the membership of [...]
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A ministerial meeting of the Indian Ocean Commission will be held on Mauritius on April 17 and 18 as scheduled [...]
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The successful candidate in the Comoros Islands' presidential election is Taki Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim, of the UNDC. He polled [...]
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A senior official of the United Nations Development Programme who was until recently the body's resident representative in Chad, Cyr [...]
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Somaliland president Mohamed Ibrahim Egal said this week that a letter dated July 3 1995 purporting to have been signed [...]
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The attack on a convoy of seventeen coaches on March 8 on the Karuma-Pakwach main road, in northern Uganda, by [...]
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After having indirectly backed Eritrea in its territorial conflict with [...]
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Prime minister Navin Ramgoolam has been invited to make official [...]
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Kenya's new High Commissioner to Great Britain presented his Letters [...]
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The leader of RENAMO (opposition) is due to go to [...]
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Following the secondment of the Development Bank of Seychelles MD [...]
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During his recent visit to Angola, Portuguese foreign minister Jaime [...]
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