The government coalition on Mauritius has just blown up, after eighteen months in supreme power following its sweeping electoral success in December 1995. Infuriated by criticism from foreign minister (and Mouvement Militant Mauricien leader) Paul Berenger over his politics, prime [.
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Researcher Jakkie Pottgieter at the Johannesburg-based Institute for Strategic Studies (ISS), carried out a survey at the end of 1996 [...]
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The attack and brief occupation by the anti-governmental rebellion of the frontier town of Bundibugyo, west of Fort Portal, on [...]
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The delegate credentials commission for the International Labour Organization's annual conference in Geneva at the beginning of June has settled, [...]
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The Comoros Islands government seems to have abandoned a scheme to sell citizenships and passports in Hong Kong inspired from [...]
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One month ago, head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim informed Abbas Djoussouf, chairman of Forum pour le Redressement National [...]
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The management of National Democratic Alliance (opposition) held a meeting in Asmara from June 19 to 22, for the first [...]
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Following an article in The Indian Ocean Newsletter (ION N° 767) announcing questions by the Ugandan military intelligence service on [...]
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A lot of young Westerners who once supported Tigray People's Liberation Front during its long fight against the regime of [...]
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Zimbabwe's finance minister announced on June 25 that his government [...]
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The leader of the Somali faction which controls the northern [...]
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South African deputy president Thabo Mbeki indicated in Cape Town [...]
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A member of Seychelles People's Progressive Front (governmental) leadership and [...]
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Close advisers to head of state Didier Ratsiraka have tagged [...]
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According to Tanzanian opposition circles, the new Democratic Republic of [...]
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By two votes cast in secret and by the same [...]
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About a dozen oil companies have replied to the notice of pre-selection in privatizing Madagascar's petroleum products distribution company Solima, [...]
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The mining company Madagascar Resources, in which Jean Raymond Boulle holds a majority participation (ION N° 770), recently began three [...]
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Whilst the International Monetary Fund has just announced this week the release of the second annual tranche (US$35 million) of [...]
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Experts of the World Bank are increasingly anxious about the slowness of the process of privatization and of splitting into [...]
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Tax avasion was in part responsible for the drop in growth of the Ugandan economy which was 5 percent during [...]
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The board of African Development Bank approved, at its last meeting on June 11, taking up a participation in the [...]
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According to a Sudanese diplomatic source, a delegation of experts from Sudan is currently in Paris for discussions with the [...]
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The African Development Bank group was due to grant a loan of US$31.5 million to Zimbabwe this week to finance [...]
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Marc Hein, the Mauritian lawyer representing the company Madagascar Resources, [...]
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Finoco and Inter Oil, two companies belonging to the group [...]
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Since the agreement signed in November 1995 between the government [...]
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Born in the historic Tigrean city of Axum, in northern Ethiopia, Colorado National Bank CEO Daniel Yohannes was a member [...]
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The post of minister of justice in Ethiopia is certainly a lot more difficult than other ministerial portfolios. Following the [...]
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France's trade adviser at its embassy in Harare, who also looked after Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, Jean Pierre Cling, is [...]
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The official on the Chama cha Mapinduzi NEC responsible for Mara Region, Munasa Sabi Munasa, has been playing at spoilsport [...]
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