The World Bank consultative group meeting on Uganda, held in Paris on November 21-22, left the two most sensitive subjects hanging: the question of Uganda's rising-rising-rising military expenditure (last increase seen hovering at 140 billion Ugandan shillings), and the country's [.
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Ethiopia is no stranger to Karl Harbo, the new head of the European Union delegation in Addis Ababa. From 1979 [...]
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Sudan's former ambassador to Teheran Qutbi Al Mahdi is to take over as head of the External Security Organization from [...]
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An emblematic figure of the Djibouti political opposition, Mohamed Djama Elabe died of a cerebral haemorrhage on November 26 after [...]
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After months of horsedealing, it is finally the Labour Party's Dr. Vasant Bunwaree who has been named finance minister, replacing [...]
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After more than three months of shilly-shallying (ION N° 738), the anticipated reshuffle of the Mauritian coalition government (Labour Party [...]
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Recently evicted former deputy prime minister and defence minister Tamrat Layne (ION N° 739) is under house arrest if not [...]
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Following the failure of government discussions with the political opposition to persuade its members to participate in the general election [...]
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The United Nations Security Council has voted to set back all discussion on an eventual air embargo on Sudan for [...]
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Grand Manoeuvres in the camps of the two presidential runners shifted into top gear at the beginning of the week, [...]
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Traditional leaders and former Somali officials who participated in the conference sponsored by the European Union in Nakuru, Kenya, from [...]
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After making a first stop in the Republic of South [...]
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The secretary general of Organization of African Unity (OAU), Tanzanian [...]
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The France-Djibouti and Horn of Africa group of the French [...]
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Seychelles finance minister James Michel wants the Seychelles parliament to [...]
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Although the visit of South African deputy president Thabo Mbeki [...]
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After his visit to Gabon scheduled for this week (ION [...]
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Following his visit to Portugal in mid-November (ION N° 741), [...]
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Students at the University of Dar es Salaam are protesting [...]
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The Seychelles government has offered the Indian group Amita Bachchan [...]
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The islands of Unguja and Pemba should be able to go it alone from next year, electricitywise. After being supplied [...]
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Like Uganda (see "Hardly even half a loaf" in this issue), Mozambique did not benefit from the Heavily Indebted Poor [...]
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Kenya has done a little nifty back-door shopping to help its energy sector. After failing to see the World Bank [...]
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Trade campaigns of Malaysian companies and financial groups are not tied down just to the Southern African region (ION N° [...]
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Telekom Malaysia is playing its cards close to the chest in the bitter battle between eight foreign companies and groups [...]
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A fairly powerful local economic group is beginning to emerge in Djibouti headed by Djibouti businessman Abdurahman Barre. He is [...]
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Meeting in Paris on November 21-22 (see "Hardly even half a loaf" in this issue), the World Bank consultative group [...]
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About forty local representatives of French companies have already reserved [...]
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Contrary to its usual habits, the next World Bank consultative [...]
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Following on Africa Growth Fund managed by Equator Bank, here [...]
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Local representatives who are used to rewarding their official intermediaries [...]
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Mauritius is currently studying the possibility of introducing a mini-harvest [...]
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Ugandan finance minister Mayanga Nkangi has told The Indian Ocean [...]
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