After having long shuffled its feet over the urgent economic reforms demanded by the international fund donors but without having come up with an alternative plan worthy of the name, Madagascar's government now has its collective back to the wall.
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Giving an account of the visit he made to Djibouti early last year (ION N° 629), French MP Xavier Deniau [...]
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The January-February 1995 issue of Frères d'Armes, a publication subtitled "Liaison magazine of the French, African and Malagasy armies" and [...]
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Once spread right across Africa, Italian cooperative assistance (except to North Africa) has been recycled in recent years into two [...]
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Zimbabwe's public service, labour and social welfare minister John Nkomo last week suspended the chairman of National Social Security Authority [...]
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The Seychelles government has started court proceedings against Guy Morel, the former governor of the central bank for thirteen years [...]
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Prime minister Halifa Houmadi's announcement to the congress of the governmental party Rassemblement pour la Démocratie et le Renouveau (RDR) [...]
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In the same week that a Nairobi court sentenced three [...]
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An internal note of the European Commission's directorate general for [...]
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National Party member Sibuye from Eastern Transvaal recently founded Concerned [...]
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The recent progressive lifting of foreign currency exchange controls in Eastern European countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland) combined with a [...]
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The visit to Maputo of South African reserve general Constand Viljoen (leader of Freedom Front, the extreme-right White faction which [...]
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Interviewed by Italian journalists, Horst Raschdorf, the German official heading Mogadiscio Port Operation Corporation (which administers the Somali capital's port) [...]
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Mozambique's finance minister, Tomas Salomao, has confirmed to The Indian Ocean Newsletter that under pressure from the international community and [...]
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Although international fund donors recognize the general improvement in Uganda's economic situation, they are remaining alert to the reforms still [...]
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The extension of decontrol to the insurance sector is a cause for anxiety in a number of groups which would [...]
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The Italian government has identified three partners in southern Africa: the Southern African Development Community, the Republic of South Africa, [...]
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French utility Lyonnaise des Eaux has set up a 50/50 [...]
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The International Monetary Fund, in a recent issue of its [...]
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A government Bill on double taxation of income, capital gains, [...]
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South Korean company Keangnam Enterprises Limited, a member of the [...]
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Following the agreement reached on forming a government between prime minister Anerood Jugnauth and former deputy prime minister Gaetan Duval, [...]
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The power behind the Somali fruit exporting group Somalfruit now fighting a bitter trade war with a giant American rival [...]
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The Republic of South Africa's first ambassador to Madagascar, Abraham Andre Brink, took up his new post at the beginning [...]
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Somaliland's deputy defence minister died on February 5 in the [...]
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Mozambique's head of state Joaquim Chissano is expected to arrive [...]
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Djibouti's economics and trade minister is due to meet with [...]
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The South African government this week published the "Masakhane Project" [...]
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The assistant to the secretary general of the Organization of [...]
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