The counsels of firmness that World Bank official Michael Sarris delivered to Madagascar's prime minister Tantely Andrianarivo fell flat (ION 862) and striking workers at the state-owned petroleum products utility Solima managed to hold out against the government, infuriating head [.
Subscribers only
Despite political support which Ethiopia brings the Eritrean opposition since it regrouped into Alliance of Eritrean National Forces (AENF) in [...]
Subscribers only
Along with hiring lobbyists in the United States, the Ethiopian government's operation seduction with intellectuals of the Diaspora has had [...]
Subscribers only
South Africa's newly-invested head of state Thabo Mbeki has lost no time in rolling up his sleeves — and telling [...]
Subscribers only
Head of state Benjamin Mkapa has personally asked the chief of defence forces, general Robert Mboma and his chef of [...]
Subscribers only
An opinion poll by French pollsters SOFRES this week for Business Magazine, questioning a representative sample of Mauritian adults, confirms [...]
Subscribers only
Prince Said Ali Kemal who had launched a campaign of [...]
Subscribers only
Results from a bye-election with very low voter participation give [...]
Subscribers only
The wife of the Mozambican ambassador to Portugal has started [...]
Subscribers only
The Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) headed by colonel Henry [...]
Subscribers only
According to certain information, Ethiopian security services have transmitted to [...]
Subscribers only
The consortium of South African utility Sasol, American company Atlantic Richfield (ARCO), and Dubai-based company Zarara Petroleum Resources Ltd is [...]
Subscribers only
The Malagasy group Rajabali, which owns two internationally-known hotels (Tana Plaza, open, and Hotel de France, renovations) in Antananarivo, plus [...]
Subscribers only
Ottawa-based British American Banknote has manufactured 90 billion Somali shillings for Somali warlord Mohamed Hussein Aideed, and transported them to [...]
Subscribers only
Talks are continuing between the new government in Moroni and ComoreTel (a joint venture between Société Nationale des Postes et [...]
Subscribers only
The Ugandan government has stopped debt servicing to creditors not members of the Paris Club until it gets its proposals [...]
Subscribers only
As had already happened in 1996, a new wave of correspondence from Nigeria promising enormous commission for a "helping hand" [...]
Subscribers only
Representatives of the China of Beijing recently made an aid proposition to the authorities of Mozambique which has not very [...]
Subscribers only
The European Investment Bank should finance the improvement of telecommunications in the three countries of East African Cooperation, namely Kenya, [...]
Subscribers only
Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) is to increase its [...]
Subscribers only
After a double-taxation convention signed with the Republic of South [...]
Subscribers only
The new executive director of Air Zimbabwe who will take up his functions on July first, Ticharwa Garabga, knows the [...]
Subscribers only
As foreseen (ION 861), US president Bill Clinton has nominated Martin George Brennan as new US ambassador to Uganda. A [...]
Subscribers only
South Africa's new minister of minerals and energy affairs has seen her nomination well received by sector professionals in South [...]
Subscribers only
A career diplomat has been since the beginning of the month charged with the Sudan dossier within the US embassy [...]
Subscribers only
Less than three weeks after a positive conclusion to negotiations with the International monetary Fund which avoided its exclusion from [...]
Subscribers only
The determination displayed by US vice president Al Gore and South Africa's then deputy president Thabo Mbeki to coordinate American [...]
Subscribers only
After having reconciled the two separatist leaders of Anjouan Island (Fundi Abdallah Ibrahim and Said Omar Chamassi) at the beginning [...]
Subscribers only
Offshore company Telsea in which Mauritius Telecom (24.5 percent) and [...]
Subscribers only
A US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) grant of US$83,000 [...]
Subscribers only
Finamoc Industria e Comércio de Petroleos has just been set [...]
Subscribers only
French group Sofreavia has been retained to carry out a [...]
Subscribers only