The opening of the fifth congress of Somali Salvation Democratic Front (SSDF), scheduled for June 20 (ION N° 629) at Gardo (250 km south of Bosaso in north-east Somalia) was delayed due to intense political competition between partisans of colonel [.
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The strike sparked this week by unionized employees of the Pick 'n Pay supermarket chain represents the toughest piece of [...]
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Commercial Bank of Ethiopia general manager Tilahun Abay announced recently that the state-owned bank had made gross profits of more [...]
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As delegates to the World Bank consultative group on Uganda (held on July 18 and 19) left the meeting in [...]
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An informal meeting of Kenya's fund donors held in Paris on July 20 under the auspices of the World Bank [...]
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Zimbabwe's economic adjustment programme has just received two major contributions: an amount of 320 million Zimbabwe dollars (US$40 million) from [...]
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The Comoros government set official vanilla prices on July 13, with the price paid to producers for green vanilla fixed [...]
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The Comoros government has finally backed down on its attempt to privatize the flag carrier Air Comores and sell it [...]
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Norway announced last week that it had authorized 400 million [...]
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A World Bank consultative group meeting on Madagascar will be [...]
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According to the most recent geological surveys, Ethiopia might have [...]
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On July 14, deputy prime minister Prem Nababsing presented to [...]
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As expected in view of the sharp slide in port [...]
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As Ugandan law prohibited political candidates standing under the banner of a political party (ION N° 618) in the March [...]
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The new executive committee of Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD, the Afars' rebellion) is [...]
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South African head of state Nelson Mandela made an official visit to Mozambique from July 20 to 22 and had [...]
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The censure motion against the government of prime minister Francisque Ravony tabled in parliament by thirty-one MPs on July 12 [...]
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The July pastoral letter from Roman Catholic bishops on Mozambique, headlined "Together for a better Mozambique" gives guidelines "on choice [...]
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According to Radio Hargeisa monitored by the BBC on July [...]
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The third session of peace talks between the Sudanese government [...]
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In a report to the United Nations Security Council on [...]
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The national electoral commission has announced yet another postponement for [...]
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The Seychelles head of state France Albert Rene made an [...]
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Although he resigned on May 27 from his functions as special counsellor on Arab nations to the head of state [...]
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Sudan's new interior minister, who was appointed on July 14, is Al-Tayeb Ibrahim Muhammad Khair, also known as "Sikha", a [...]
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Zimbabwe Tobacco Association wound up its annual congress last month by electing a new chairman, Peter Richards, and a new [...]
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A former representative of Madagascar in Germany and Italy, Ralaonah [...]
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France's ambassador to Madagascar, whose three-year appointment apparently ends in [...]
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Zimbabwe's foreign minister signed the protocol of a bilateral cooperation [...]
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Pope John Paul II last week accepted the resignation of [...]
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On an official visit to Maputo this week (see also [...]
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