Reunion Island, France's Indian Ocean representative, is also, through industrial investment, the region's door onto the European Community market. This point is being pushed by local officials in their dealings with potential South African investors.
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Sudanese government troops out of Pochala took the town of Pibor on April 23. Continuing their victory on the road [...]
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Ongoing disputes between the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Egyptian Copt Church have forced the Ethiopian Orthodox Church to reconsider [...]
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Active members of the South Africa Defence Force (SADF) were not, as per usual, authorised to attend the debate on [...]
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Denoël, the publisher of Pierre Soubiron, former Seychelles consul to the southern French port of Marseilles, is unsure of how [...]
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Last weekend, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was served with a large slice of dissention from members of the Zimbabwe National [...]
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The French military contingent left its positions on Hanle Plain in Djibouti on April 24, and have moved to Yoboki. [...]
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According to the radio station controlled by the leader of the United Somali Congress (USC), Mohamed Farah Aideed, picked up [...]
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The recently issued new twenty-rupee bank note bearing the image [...]
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Morocco says it is prepared to take part in the [...]
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Colonel in Germany's military hierarchy, Klaus Abel was invited to speak at the recently held conference on the future of [...]
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Joel de Zorzi was cabinet director for Thierry de Beaucé, when Beaucé was French junior minister for international cultural relations. [...]
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Member of the Kenyan Parliament for the constituency of Molo, Njenga Mungai has resurfaced this week, after spending fifteen days [...]
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Kenya's ambassador to Washington recently confirmed that Commonwealth observers will be invited to supervise his country's general elections whose date [...]
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The Sudanese ambassador at the European Commission, Sayeed Saad, recently called for the 165 million ecus allocated to Sudan under [...]
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A recent issue of Development Today, a newsletter on Scandinavian development aid, reports that Tamco, a heavy goods vehicle manufacturer [...]
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French bank Crédit Agricole has set up a cover company based in Venezuela, through which it will finance the 50 [...]
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The Indian Ocean Newsletter has discovered from sources close to the department of land registration in Mozambique, that private investors [...]
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According to Tanzanian weekly, Business Times, private airline, Kilimanjaro Airways (KAL) (ION N°511), is negotiating with the French firm, Avions [...]
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Intertrade, the Italian firm cited in The Indian Ocean Newsletter N°523 in connection with a financial scandal in the Comoros, [...]
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A mission of specialists working on the rehabilitation programme to restore drinking water to the town of Hargeisa, visited the [...]
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The French overseas aid (cooperation) ministry has finally agreed to [...]
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Radio Addis Ababa reported this week that the provisional Eritrean [...]
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The national electricity companies of Zimbabwe and Mozambique have agreed [...]
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Out of a 53 million ecu European Community aid package [...]
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After a recent visit to South Africa, Air Tanzania Corporation [...]
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Paris representative of the group that supports Albert Zafy, president [...]
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French inspector of finances, he and a civil administrator, Patrice [...]
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Interim chairman of the Kenyan opposition, Forum for the Restoration [...]
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A French television journalist, Michel Honorin is chair of the [...]
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The leader of the Sudanese National Islamic Front (NIF) arrived [...]
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