Once again in the throws of an internal crisis (ION N° 566), the government alliance of prime minister Anerood Jugnauth's MSM party and the MMM party of Paul Berenger and Prem Nababsing is, this time, on the brink of explosion.
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The seven political opposition movements which attended the Paris Conference of March 11-13 (ION N° 567) are pushing ahead with [...]
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Tanzania's parliament adopted a motion on August 23 calling for a constitutional revision to permit setting up a separate government [...]
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The Sudanese lawyer, who is a graduate of Cambridge, Edinburgh and Khartoum Universities and the author of several publications on [...]
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Several civil servants from East and Southern Africa (Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda) are among the twenty-six representatives of LDCs [...]
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A communique from the Eritrean movement Jihad Islamiyya issued in Saudi Arabia on August 25 and published by the Saudi [...]
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A delegation of Ugandan businessmen visited Tanzania last week in an attempt to awaken top officials of Tanzania Railways Corporation [...]
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Denmark's foreign ministry announced on August 24 that his country was cutting bilateral aid for Kenya from DKR 150 million [...]
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South African Foreign Trade Organisation is preparing to send an [...]
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The government of Djibouti informed the French authorities that the [...]
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Former US president Jimmy Carter said recently that the study [...]
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The Eritrean government has requested the services of Duncan Dow, [...]
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The new president of South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) marks two important "firsts" for the state radio and television organisation: [...]
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African Development Bank and its subsidiary African Development Fund (ADF) are expected to decide next week on a grant to [...]
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Comoros president Said Mohamed Djohar finally signed a decree on August 21 setting the dates for general elections and for [...]
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Caisse Française de Développement (CFD) last month granted Madagascar FFr.177 million in the form of two subsidy payments and one [...]
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Renamo's chief, Afonso Dhlakama, arrived in Maputo on August 21 to an enthusiastic welcome by thousands of supporters. Dhlakama met [...]
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Industry minister Jean Claude de l'Estrac is to lead a trade mission from twenty-six Mauritius enterprises to Cape Town, South [...]
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The Commission des Opérations de Bourse (the stock exchange supervisory body) in Paris announced on August 18 that it is [...]
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The British firm Europe Energy Environment is organising a conference in Cape Town on November 29 and 30 on the [...]
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Canada's new ambassador to South Africa was named at the beginning of August. Marc Brault, who takes over from Christopher [...]
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Madagascar's prime minister, Francisque Ravony, who was elected by the national assembly at the beginning of August, recently saw his [...]
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The Caisse Française de Développement manager is to visit the [...]
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France's senator for Reunion Island, Eric Boyer, who is also [...]
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Three enterprises are competing in the call for bids issued [...]
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Italy has abandoned the US$50 million aid package promised Mozambique [...]
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The shortage of foreign currency and the latest frolics of [...]
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EDF International has won the contract, financed by the World [...]
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A first secretary in France's Washington embassy has been named [...]
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African Development Bank is to make 29 million rupees (US$5.57 [...]
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The Comoros government's application to join the Arab League, submitted [...]
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Mauritius' new ambassador to the United States, who has been [...]
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