Oftimes showcased as a "success story" for structural adjustment programmes in Africa, Zimbabwe has now come seriously unstuck for the second time in less than nine months: the International Monetary Fund has suspended all balance of payments support.
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The general strike called by Union Générale des Travailleurs Djiboutiens and Union Djiboutienne du Travail for September 6 (ION N° [...]
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An agreement on security was signed in Maputo last week between the Mozambican and Portuguese governments, during the visit of [...]
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The victory of the "yes" vote in Madagascar's constitutional referendum on September 17 seems assured despite a high level of [...]
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After interminable procrastination (ION N° 661 and 684), the US government has announced that it is closing down its satellite [...]
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Prime minister Mohamed Caabi El Yachroutu met with leaders of all opposition parties on September 15 to discuss organizing free [...]
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Technicals (heavily armed four-wheel drive vehicles) from general Mohamed Farah Aideed's units put an end last weekend to the experiment [...]
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Rioting which broke out in Khartoum, Port Sudan and Wad Medani from September 9 to 15 were very different in [...]
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Officials of Dar es Salaam University Students Organization (DARUSO) have written to the university's vice chancellor, professor Matthew Luhanga, warning [...]
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The call by head of state Albert Zafy for a [...]
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Iran has offered to act as a mediator between Uganda [...]
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Work on rehabilitating the electricity power grid to Kampala, which is being financed by Denmark to the tune of US$26 [...]
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Following the report "Socotec and Cotecna face-off" (ION N° 684), the executive director of Cotecna Inspection SA, Robert M. Massey, [...]
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The European Development Fund executive committee is considering a go-ahead for a project worth ECU 4.85 million (just over US$6 [...]
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The Italian NGO Cooperazione Internazionale is to rehabilitate the drinking water distribution network for the port of Berbera, in eastern [...]
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Last week's official visit by Mozambican transport minister Paulo Muxanga was somewhat muddied by the persisting argument between the French [...]
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The Seychelles government last week issued a decree slapping a tight control on all imports not intended for personal use, [...]
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The government commission examining the rival claims of two systems of public transport between the capital of Port Louis and [...]
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Tanzania's Board of External Trade (BET) has still not got its hands on the whole of the cash receipts due [...]
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The European Commission has earmarked ECU 7.8 million (just under [...]
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Austral Coal NL, a subsidiary of Resources Equities Ltd, an [...]
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Madagascar Resources, a company registered under Australian law in Perth [...]
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The International Monetary Fund is expected to send another mission [...]
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Zimbabwe's energy minister Simon Kaya has warned that falling water [...]
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Israel's new ambassador to Ethiopia, Avi Granot, has presented his Letters of Credence after a delay which had begun to [...]
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Taking advantage of the competition between several candidates (including Serge Degallais, the deputy director general for cultural, scientific and technical [...]
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Tanzania's director of wild-life in the ministry of land, tourism and wild-life, Muhidin Ndolanga, is languishing in jail after being [...]
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Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi named Dubale Jale governor of National Bank of Ethiopia on September 4. Dubale Jale, who [...]
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France's Union Centriste senator Jean Faure, who is deputy chairman [...]
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The general manager of Zimbabwe's State Trading Corporation has announced [...]
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On his return from the Republic of South Africa, the [...]
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David Miller, executive director of Corporate Council on America, announced [...]
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The former inspector of education has been appointed general manager [...]
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