By dint of trying to prove that all its opponents are apprentice terrorists, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) which has been ruling in Addis Ababa since 1991 runs the danger of toppling into intolerance and dictatorship.
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The misfortunes of finance minister Rundheersing Bheenick seem nowhere near ended. After a first brush with opponents when the new [...]
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The Roman Catholic hierarchy has sent three bishops to northern Uganda to sound out the possibilities of negotiations for a [...]
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At the conclusion of separate consultations with its members both in Ethiopia and abroad, the central committee of Oromo Liberation [...]
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Former Malagasy prime minister Emmanuel Rakotovahiny has just been appointed "supervisor general" to head of state Albert Zafy, a post [...]
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Comoros Islands head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim has recently taken on a new adviser in the person of [...]
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French prime minister Alain Juppé convened the first meeting on June 20 of Comité Interministériel de l'Aide au Développement (CIAD), [...]
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At the end of a meeting on June 25 with former US ambassador to Kenya Aurelia Brazeal, who was making [...]
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Head of state Benjamin Mkapa was elected (with only eight [...]
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Replying to a parliamentary question from Reunion Island MP Andre [...]
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The newly appointed director general of Chemin de Fer Djibouto-Ethiopien, Bouh Hussein Omar, who takes over from Wolde Giorgis, does [...]
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Dubai businessman Abdullah Bin Yussuf Al Shaibani is busy turning The Seychelles into a launchpad for a world lottery. He [...]
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Madagascar's permanent representative to UNESCO in Paris (with the personal rank of ambassador), Imbe Jacob returned to Antananarivo in a [...]
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According to a recent analysis by French embassy trade counsellors in Southern Africa, the drinking water sector in the region [...]
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A conference on French technologies in the water sector will be held in the Republic of South Africa on September [...]
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Mozambique is currently studying an Italian project to build a railway link between Tete, capital of the province of that [...]
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The International Monetary Fund decided on June 21 to approve a three-year loan to support the Mozambican government's economic reforms [...]
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The Ugandan government has issued a Call for bids for construction and rehabilitation work at Kisoro airport, a small frontier [...]
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Conflict between Zimbabwe and Britain may lie ahead after head of state Robert Mugabe again attacked Britain, this time charging [...]
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At the beginning of the week, French officials in charge of the state visit to Paris of South African head [...]
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During its management committee meeting of June 19, the Fonds d'Aide et de Coopération (FAC, which depends on the French [...]
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A mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is currently [...]
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Italian mining company Asteria was this week granted an exploration [...]
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Sudan's minister of state for finance and economic planning and [...]
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Mauritian prime minister Navin Ramgoolam was due to begin an [...]
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South African defence minister Joe Modise announced this week, during [...]
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Fighting broke out this week between supporters of general Mohamed [...]
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Giving evidence before the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee on [...]
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