Apart from two Rassemblement pour la République (right-wing opposition) MPs, Didier Julia and Pierre Charles Krieg, and ex-minister Philippe Malaud, rare are the French political officials who have espoused the separatist cause on Anjouan Island.
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Comoros head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim has multiplied his often clumsy initiatives in his efforts to counter the [...]
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Summing up an opinion poll on ethnic groups and castes taken in the Antananarivo urban area, François Roubaud, an economist [...]
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Bretton Woods institutions officials are anxiously wondering whether Malagasy government officials are capable, or even desirous, of respecting the promises [...]
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A politico-military jigsaw seems to be working out in the Gedo region, north-west of Mogadiscio, Several months ago, members of [...]
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Head of state general Omar Hassan Al Bashir zapped through the Sudanese army's general staff on October 17 with a [...]
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Nine opposition parties recently met in Dar es Salaam on the initiative of Chadema and decided to set up a [...]
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Drug trafficking from Indian and Pakistan bases appears to be a daily occurrence along Mozambique's northern shoreline. Sources in Cabo [...]
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Statistics just released on Uganda's clampdowns on drug trafficking show that the country has become a major transit point, due [...]
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South African finance minister Trevor Manuel said on October 23 [...]
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The chairwoman of Chagos Social Committee, Ms. Jeanette Alexis, says [...]
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South Korean multinational Daewoo has knocked down a report in [...]
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Sudan sent a discrete delegation, including head of state general [...]
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US State Department spokesperson James Rubin has again condemned Kenya's [...]
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In the framework of a promotion campaign in Europe (which [...]
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The Seychelles government may decontrol the country's telecommunications, although its exact intentions are still far from clear. The move would [...]
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The Tanzanian government has thrown out the submission by food product importers to review urgently the specifications of products which [...]
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The French Senate (upper chamber) and the parastatal Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur (CFCE) are to organize a seminar in [...]
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The trade name and goodwill of state-owned Air Djibouti, which has been in liquidation for years, have been ceded to [...]
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Glencore, a large Swiss-based petroleum trader, recently approached a Paris bank to propose a financial package for Madagascar. The deal [...]
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Saudi Arabian businessman Mohamed Al Amoudi has added yet another company to his Midroc Ethiopia holding company: Huda Real Estate [...]
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Just days before meeting British prime minister Tony Blair during the Commonwealth heads of government conference in Edinburgh (October 22-27), [...]
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A Call for bids should be issued for rehabilitation work [...]
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The Tigrayan consortium Endowment Fund For the Rehabilitation of Tigray [...]
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United States computer equipment giant Hewlett Packard, believed to be [...]
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André Le Roux, Addis Ababa representative of the French private-sector [...]
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International Development Association (the World Bank concessional lending affiliate) has [...]
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Caisse Française de Développement director general Antoine Pouillieute will go to Madagascar from October 23 to 26 to sign several [...]
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The new assistant administrator of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and also head of its regional office for Africa, Ms. [...]
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On the occasion of the 21st annual meeting of representatives of ACP/European Union economic and social circles, held in Brussels [...]
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Giving testimony on October 21 in Washington before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on his nomination as US [...]
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