South African president-nominate Thabo Mbeki is cultivating relations everywhere, with a preference for people who surmounted adversity in the past and are capable of giving him cold and dispassionate advice. Apart from the special relationship he has with Joel Netshitenzhe, [.
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The World Bank resident representative in Antananarivo since January 1996, Philippe Le Houérou, is to return to Washington at the [...]
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The US authorities sent lieutenant-colonel James W. Spears, a political-military adviser to African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI), as US observer [...]
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The British government has designated a new ambassador to replace ambassador Bob Dewar from July. It is Charles Mochan, aged [...]
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After two years as the National Security Council's director of African affairs, John Prendergast reintegrated the US Institute for Peace [...]
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Djibouti's new head of state Ismail Omar Gelleh is hustling around setting up a cabinet which reveals several of his [...]
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The trade delegation which accompanied three South African government ministers to Libya from May 23 to 26 had expected to [...]
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The arson attack in the evening May 23 on the Amicale de Port Louis, a much-frequented gaming house in the [...]
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President Mohamed Ibrahim Egal of Somaliland carried out a thoroughgoing reshuffle of the north-west Somali region's government on May 23, [...]
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New Comoros Islands strong-man colonel Assumani Azzali is busy consolidating power in Moroni but has not managed to get the [...]
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Following his official visit to Paris from May 25 to [...]
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During a commercial seminar organized jointly by the parastatal Centre [...]
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The chairman of Mayotte Island general council has appealed for [...]
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The four heads of Conseil des Eglises Chrétiennes de Madagascar [...]
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The campaign for the general election at the end of [...]
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The sudden saturation of world coffee markets has sparked a collapse of selling prices, forcing Ethiopian coffee exporters to halt [...]
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Air Mauritius has cancelled one of its two weekly flights to the Seychelles due to a drop in the number [...]
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The latest report of consultants Business Map enumerates the most efficient firms on the Johannesburg stock exchange without underrating risks [...]
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In a bid to negotiate new aid from the International Monetary Fund, the Kenyan government has drafted a policy framework [...]
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Irritated by the problems of French state-owned company CIDEV over a FFr.17.5 million demining contract offered by the parastatal Agence [...]
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Tanzanian prime minister Frederick Sumaye has disavowed statements by minister of commerce and industry Idd Simba calling for some sectors [...]
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An urgent World Bank technical mission was expected in Nairobi at the end of the week to evaluate a new [...]
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The arrival of the new head of state Ismail Omar Gelleh in Djibouti coincides with an acceleration of privatization. Reform [...]
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The chairman and MD of Savonnerie Tropicale SA has informed [...]
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An International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington at the beginning [...]
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At the beginning of the 1970s, Nairobi was the cradle of budding agents of Britain's MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service) who [...]
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In just one week the United States has taken two measures which reveal some distrust of the Kampala authorities. US [...]
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With ten months to go to the March 2000 general election, the civil war in Democratic Republic of Congo is [...]
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The choice of satellites to increase GPS signals to control [...]
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Consultants Harza Engineering Company of Chicago used US government agency [...]
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Cofrepeche chairman and MD Regis Toussaint used a breakfast laid [...]
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