Prime minister Navin Ramgoolam's decision to go for a general election on September 11 — narrowly within the briefest of legal timetables: 15 days to file candidates' papers and 15 days to campaign — is a tricky piece of poker.
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The military presence of UPDF (Ugandan army) has increased in Equator, the province north of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [...]
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With his mandate ending with October's general election, Zanzibar president Salmin Amour has increasingly tense relations with his ministers, particularly [...]
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Comoros president colonel Assumani Azzali and the leader of Anjouan Island separatists colonel Said Abeid signed a joint declaration at [...]
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Mozambique's RENAMO (opposition party) chairman Afonso Dhlakama made a discreet visit to the United States in the first half of [...]
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The question of arms sales to Eritrea and Ethiopia by East European former Soviet Bloc countries was raised in an [...]
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Comoran political opponents living in France have been contacted in [...]
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The French group Thomson CSF, whose South African subsidiary African Defence Systems (ADS) advises the South African government on equipment [...]
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While waiting for the government to complete equipping the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), quality control of fish exported [...]
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Kenya has decided to back the candidature of Dr. Miriam Were for the post of executive director of the United [...]
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Holding a diploma in accounting and in finance and the sole Mauritian woman to be admitted to the United States' [...]
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Ethiopia's former minister of transport and telecommunications, who gave up his post several years ago to become a UNICEF deputy [...]
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A Portuguese lobbyist close to RENAMO (Mozambique's opposition) leader Afonso Dhlakama is believed to be behind the recent dismissal of [...]
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Ugandan head of state Yoweri Museveni is to make a state visit to Rwanda during the third week of September [...]
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Three Mauritian diplomats have just been named their country's representative in Geneva, Berlin and Kuala Lumpur. Sutiawan Gunessee, who holds [...]
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US delegations have succeeded each other in Horn of Africa countries in recent weeks, demonstrating Washington's anxiety over the uneasy [...]
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The theft of 400 million Malagasy francs (FRF1 = 900 FMG) from the Toamasina branch of Bank of Africa (BOA, [...]
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The FRF5.5 million credit line that French parastatal Fonds d'Aide et de Coopération (FAC) authorized for Djibouti on December 19 [...]
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Although the Bretton Woods institution decided in July to resume financial aid to Kenya, head of state Daniel arap Moi [...]
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The dispute which for more than a year has opposed the De Beers trust and the government evaluator, Belgian national [...]
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The Southern Africa International Dialogue (SAID 2000), a kind of African version of the World Economic Forum held annually in [...]
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Employed by the law office Pierson, Semmes and Benis, Paul [...]
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A good number of political personalities are taking a close [...]
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Madagascar Hunt Oil Company, a subsidiary of the American company [...]
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Mauritius-based Sun International is negotiating ceding the management of Galawa [...]
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Mello, one of Portugal's major economic groups, is increasingly disinterested [...]
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The future French ambassador to Zimbabwe exercised his first functions [...]
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A team of economists is to take over the reins [...]
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