Bogged down in a mediation procedure in Somalia which looks very much like coming to a sudden end, and facing domestic negotiations with Afar rebels members of FRUD (opposition) which are dragging on without ever concluding, head of state Ismail [.
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Former South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) member Yasmin Sooka has been named director of Foundation for Human Rights [...]
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Ethiopia's acting minister of transport and communications since March 1999, Mohamoud Dirir Geddi, has been confirmed in the post, and [...]
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The affairs of Kikuyu businessman (and Saba Saba Asili opposition party leader) Kenneth Matiba are not going well. His company [...]
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The director general and joint manager of SOMEAH is expected to be head-of-list for the AREMA government party in the [...]
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The president, colonel Assumani Azzali, has decided to give battle in the domain of information by asking his advisers to [...]
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Tanzania's general election, scheduled for October 29, has been prepared these past weeks in a climate of increasing tension on [...]
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Talks between the Djibouti government and Front pour la Restauration de l’Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD, ex-Afar rebels) begun [...]
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The government of newly designated president Abdi Qassem Salad Hassan is a veritable challenge for the leaders of Puntland (in [...]
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Officially a 'moral guarantor of the authenticity of the ballot and the sincerity of the vote', Madagascar's seven-person Conseil National [...]
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Whilst complaining that their letter to Eritrean head of state [...]
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The Mozambican government is still hesitating on the attitude to [...]
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After the French national assembly voted through an amendment to Article 12 (tax exemption overseas) of the 2001 Finance Bill [...]
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Knowing that the World Bank is planning to invest US$100 million to develop the use of IT in East Africa, [...]
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South Africa’s Diamond Board new board chairman, Nat Masemola, who was named to the post last month to replace Gibson [...]
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In trying to give clarification on the Economic Citizenship Programme (ECP) which authorizes the sale of Seychelles passports to foreigners [...]
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The government-owned Tanzania Investment Bank (TIB) has been picked to carry out liquidation of Greenland Bank (Tanzania) Ltd (GBT), a [...]
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Submitted to strong pressure from the World Bank which is still balking at granting Kenya's energy sector an emergency credit [...]
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After a lightning return to Mauritius (two days in mid-October) with his Mauritian fiancée Ms. Rishni Boodhoo and his lawyer, [...]
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Organisation Patronale des Comores (OPACO) last week asked for the [...]
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Denmark's ambassador to Tanzania wrote to The Indian Ocean Newsletter [...]
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New legislation covering Madagascar's petroleum sector should be ready by [...]
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Leaders of National Democratic Alliance (NDA, Sudanese opposition) were in conclave in Asmara this week to discuss the demand of [...]
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Nearly one hundred businessmen from Mozambique are to go to Dubai on a trade mission in the third week of [...]
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Experts from Tanzania and Uganda have not managed to settle an old frontier row between the two countries involving a [...]
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Tanganyika Oil Company Ltd of Vancouver (Canada) is to drill [...]
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Ethiopian Airlines is expected mark up bad results for financial [...]
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Although former Air Madagascar director general Besoa Razafimaharo presented his [...]
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Back in Djibouti after being hospitalized in France with cardiovascular [...]
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There's still a row going on between the Anjouan Island [...]
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According to some sources, Simon Khaya may shortly become Zimbabwe's [...]
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