Ismail Omar Gelleh, chef de cabinet to Djibouti head of state Hassan Gouled Aptidon and his nephew and probable successor, has confirmed the likelihood of a Djibouti-Ethiopian union in a recent interview for the Ethiopian pro-government Amharic-language magazine Efoyta.
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The privatization programme for Madagascar's public-sector enterprises has just been updated by the World Bank with a new timetable dated [...]
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International Development Association (IDA, the World Bank concessional lending affiliate) has started examining a study of three new credit lines [...]
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Kenya is using financial assistance from its international fund donors to reorient health sector priorities to rural zones. For while [...]
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Commercial exchanges between the Comoros Islands and France are on the up and up despite the internal political crisis traversing [...]
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The European Union and its agencies are in pole position to finance major infrastructure projects on Madagascar. EU will finance [...]
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US secretary for commerce William Daley told a forum on African trade held in Washington June 18 that he would [...]
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France's offer, totalling some FFr.12 billion, for the six military arms procurement contracts which are up for grabs in South [...]
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It's back to square one for the Tanzanian government, which decontrolled petroleum imports in July 1996. Now it has suspended [...]
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The World Bank delegation which was on mission in Kampala [...]
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Deputy prime minister in charge of devolution and budget Pierrot [...]
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The World Bank has just granted a US$5 million loan [...]
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British registered water-filter manufacturer Fairey Industrial Ceramics Limited (FIC) is [...]
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Doped by the results of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) annual summit at Ouagadougou, which had called countries in [...]
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Although the two protagonists in the Eritrean/Ethiopian frontier feud last week agreed to suspend air raids they were carrying out [...]
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Proposals for a settlement of the Eritrean/Ethiopian border dispute continue to appear. Following a joint proposal by Rwanda and the [...]
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Sudanese finance minister Abdelwahab Osman has come out victorious of a fight with his colleague, international development minister Abdellah Hassan [...]
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Opposition MPs demonstrated on June 23 to protest being marginalized in Parliament by representatives of the ruling party, Seychelles People's [...]
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In the framework of his visit in Southern Africa, French head of state Jacques Chirac was due to go to [...]
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Desperate to obtain the farmland that head of state Robert Mugabe last November promised he would give them, some 4,000 [...]
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Burundi peace negotiations held in Arusha (Tanzania) from June 15 to 21 under the mediation of Tanzanian ex-president Julius Nyerere [...]
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Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce (AACC) chairman and Infotech plc [...]
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Demining in Southern Africa is part of the sectors which [...]
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Former cabinet director to impeached ex-president Albert Zafy, Serge Zafimahova, [...]
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It is finally Ranapartab Tacuri who has been named chairman [...]
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Invited to participate in an international conference on small arms [...]
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Following the outbreak of border fighting between Eritrea and Ethiopia, [...]
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The Roman Catholic hierarchy at the Vatican has raised Ugandan-born Monsignor Augustine Kasujja to the rank archbishop and promoted him [...]
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The board of Uganda Electricity Board (UEB) has toppled director general Simon D'Ujanga and six other senior executives of the [...]
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Mauritius Stock Exchange chairman Sydney Bathfield has been designated to head the newly-formed Association of Offshore Management Companies, set up [...]
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Luxembourg has appointed president Nelson Mandela's personal physician to be its honorary consul to the Republic of South Africa. Dr. [...]
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Mauritian telecommunications service company ICE has set up Invescom, an [...]
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