The Industrial Export Free Zones that allow special facilities to exporting companies (unlimited duty free imports of capital goods), has become the main argument in wooing foreign investors. However, in spite of major success in Mauritius (known as the EPZ), [.
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A spokesman for the Nasir faction of the Sudan People's liberation Army (SPLA) in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, Akol Deng [...]
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The OPEC International Development Fund has granted two loans to the Malagasy authorities worth a total 4.62 million dollars. The [...]
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Comoros Islands' President Said Mohamed Djohar has decided to create a crisis committee whose task will be to resolve the [...]
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Secretary general of the United Nations, Boutros Boutros Ghali recommended to the UN general assembly that a United Nations Observer [...]
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Although Madagascar's prime minister, Guy Razanamasy is indeed a member of the Lutherian Church, he is not, as ION implied [...]
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The food for arms proposition made by Father J.P. Le Scour, secretary of the Catholic Bishops of Southern Africa's commission [...]
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Accompanied by his minister for agriculture, Mohamed Moussa Chehem and the director of the Djiboutian presidential cabinet, Ismael Omar Guelleh, [...]
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A report recently issued by the United States embassy in the Kenyan capital Nairobi paints a dismal picture of the [...]
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The South African authorities ar carefully studying, with French firm, Pechiney, the viability of importing bauxite from Guinea to be [...]
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The US special coordinator for Somalia relief and the US-AID assistant-administrator for the bureau of food and humanitarian assistance, Andrew [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, two [...]
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A car belonging to the mayor of Pamandzi on Mayotte [...]
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The Antananarivo-Tamatave (on the east coast of Madagascar) railway has [...]
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At the end of the second annual general meeting of the Nairobi Stock Exchange, the body appointed Jimnah Mbaru to [...]
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A former under-minister in the agricultural ministry has accused his government in Nairobi of supporting the Somali faction led by [...]
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In response to a question from Reunion Island deputy, André Thien ah Koon in the French parliament, the minister for [...]
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The director general of the South African ministry of foreign affairs has been appointed ambassador to the European Community in [...]
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A forty-two member Ethiopian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs has been set up in Addis Ababa and is chaired by [...]
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Two parallel missions, one from the International Monetary Fund and the other from the World Bank arrived in the Comoros [...]
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The International Development Association (IDA) a World Bank affiliate, is proposing to lend Uganda 40 million dollars to the ministry [...]
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Socialist representative in the French parliament, Pierre Victoria presented the budget of the French ministry of Cooperation in early October [...]
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The board of Proparco, affiliated to the French Caisse Centrale de Coopération Economique (CCCE) and specialised in loans to the [...]
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The sixth Franco-Zimbabwe financial protocol worth 22 million dollars is [...]
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Proparco, affiliated to the French Caisse Centrale de Coopération Economique [...]
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A feasibility study for an new airport in Mauritius was [...]
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Kenyan national television announced on October 28 that after having [...]
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The Mauritian economic planning and development minister recently expressed harsh [...]
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During the recent by-election in the Mauritian capital's N° 3 [...]
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The director of the East Africa department of the World [...]
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Brother of Djiboutian opponent Ali Aref Bourhane who is serving [...]
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The governor of the Mozambican province of Nampula announced this [...]
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