Uganda People's Defence Force, the Ugandan regular army, is preparing to send a special brigade to Kindu, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, to reinforce Congolese rebels and their allies who have been seriously pinned down before Kabinda since mid-March.
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The frontier conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia is increasingly giving rise to ideological overtones that are far removed from the [...]
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After Madagascar and Mozambique, it's the turn of Zanzibar (Tanzania) to attract the keen-eyed scrutiny of Mauritian businessmen. A prospecting [...]
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France may be the world's fourth exporter and investor in the world but certainly not in the three East African [...]
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Fearing that the international campaign for the release of lawyer Aref Mohamed Aref could damage its image on the eve [...]
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Since he created his own political party, as allowed under the new legislation on organizations, the chairman of Southern Sudan [...]
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In a long missive addressed to The Indian Ocean Newsletter on March 20, Seyoum Oukabagzie-Michael, an executive committee member of [...]
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Madagascar's ambassador to France Malalazoa Raholison recently managed to get a hefty discount to settle his embassy's bill with the [...]
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The defence committee of Armée Nationale de Développement (AND) sent a sharply critical letter to defence minister Ali Abdallah on [...]
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Mozambique prime minister Pascoal Mocumbi has just named Antonio Carrasco [...]
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The municipal council in the city of Musoma on the [...]
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The vice president of the National Assembly and member of [...]
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Uganda's organism responsible for privatizations has decided to suspend the sale of 51 percent of shares in state-owned Uganda Telecommunications [...]
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In a missive addressed on March 22 to The Indian Ocean Newsletter by Vincent Imamai in the name of Kenya [...]
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The Mauritian chicken production and marketing company Arc en Ciel (Varma Aubeeluck is manager and principal shareholder) is planning to [...]
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A delegation from Chambre de Commerce Belgique-Luxembourg-Pays Arabes led by its secretary general Taleb Chaieb made a three-day working visit [...]
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After last year deciding to beef up its support to British enterprises in Uganda, the London-based employers' federation The Eastern [...]
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If Aaron Ringer's appointment as executive director of the Kenya Anti Corruption Authority (KACA) wins approval from the International Monetary [...]
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The Comoros Islands government is seeking to break a contract signed in Paris on October 30, 1998 by Mahamoud Ahmed [...]
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It is not just companies owned by Karana (businessmen of Indian Sub-continent origin) such as Naza Electronic and Ocean Trade [...]
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Even though war is raging between Ethiopia and Eritrea in [...]
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A former department manager at the HongKong and Shanghai Banking [...]
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Donors financing the Zanzibar Urban Water Project have threatened to [...]
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Finance manger of state-owned Mauritius Telecom, Ravindranath Poonie has been [...]
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There are strong indications that the government is thinking of [...]
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The new chairman of the Law Society of Kenya, Gibson Kamau Kuria, is a long-standing critic of the government of [...]
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Tanzania's permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva who was recently named chairman of the World Trade Organization's General [...]
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As a former member of the South African utility Eskom stands well placed to become the new managing director of [...]
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Parties represented in Parliament have submitted lists of their candidates to Comissao Nacional de Eleiçoes (CNE), which is charged with [...]
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State-owned Seychelles Marketing Board is to get out of the [...]
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Commenting that it is not always easy to find reliable [...]
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Mauritius-registered Ireland Blyth Ltd (general manager is Didier Giraud) has [...]
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