The conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo may have tolled the death-knell of diplomatic unity within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and has anyway considerably darkened the future chances of this promising regional cooperation organization.
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The US Administration has justified its destruction of El Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. north of Khartoum by air-ground missiles on [...]
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The two principal Mogadiscio warlords, Hussein Mohamed Aideed and Ali Mahdi Mohamed, have taken initiatives with a view to putting [...]
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In the framework of the mandate of coordinator of OAU mediation on the Anjouan Island crisis which was entrusted to [...]
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Ugandan foreign minister Eriya Kategaya admitted on August 25 that units of Ugandan People's Defence Force (UPDF) had penetrated into [...]
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Although there have been no firefights along the Eritrea-Ethiopia frontier for several weeks, both sides are still standing to. Both [...]
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Several Armée Nationale Djiboutienne non-commissioned officers were arrested in Djibouti this week on charges of treason. Military authorities suspect the [...]
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Drawing the lesson of the high rate of voter abstention (85 percent) in Mozambique's municipal elections on June 30 after [...]
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Head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim carried out a technical realignment on August 18 of the government he had [...]
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Portugal's ambassador to the Cape Verde Isles (previously in post [...]
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Ethiopia's minister of transport and communications has returned to the [...]
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In the framework of a ministerial reshuffle at the beginning [...]
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The current conflict across the Democratic Republic of the Congo [...]
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The conference of international fund donors involved in financing land [...]
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Little more than a week after hitting the headlines as [...]
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The International Monetary Fund has recommended a series of tough financial measures for the Seychelles authorities which might get them [...]
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The Seychelles' Tourism Trade Association (TTA) has come out against the government's proposed US$100 "head tax" on tourists next year [...]
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Ethiopian finance minister Sufian Ahmed announced last week that the central bank, National Bank of Ethiopia, would shortly hand over [...]
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The recent inauguration of a five-star hotel, the Sea Cliff Hotel, close to the Dar es Salaam shoreline has sparked [...]
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The European Union is due in October to release the first tranche (35 million ECU) of its 71.2 million ECU [...]
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Incoming prime minister Tantely Andrianarivo has followed up the new government's formation to send his ministers at the beginning of [...]
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The European Union has approved the award of budget assistance worth 75.8 million ECU for Ethiopia and the major part [...]
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Uganda's Privatization Unit has suspended talks with the firm Midroc Ethiopia on a 80-percent holding in the Kampala Sheraton. Midroc, [...]
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Malaysian oil major Petronas this week offered to buy up [...]
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Kenyan minister for industrial development F. Y. O. Masakhalia will [...]
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If the latest issue of IMF Survey is to be [...]
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The new World Bank resident representative for Ethiopia is British national Nigel Roberts, who takes over from Fayez Omar at [...]
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The present owner of El Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries Inc., which US air-ground missiles destroyed on August 20 (See "US double [...]
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Under-director of the foreign ministry's Central and East Africa Desk since 1994 (ION 643), Bernadette Lefort is to become France's [...]
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Madagascar's new foreign minister is a geophysician who graduated in 1985 from the School of Mining in Leningrad (now St [...]
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