The fiasco of the recent visit to Hargeisa by the head of the political department of UNOSOM 2, Leonard Kapungu, (ION N° 590) has dug even deeper the ditch separating the established authorities of Somaliland and United Nations officials looking [.
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While the controversy over the government's land redistribution project (ION N° 574) has resulted in a slowdown of new investment [...]
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France's culture and Francophony minister, Jacques Toubon, recently summed up the work he expected to be done at the Francophone [...]
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In an eighteen-page report submitted to the World Bank in Washington last week, Zimbabwe's finance minister put his name to [...]
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The Comoros' head of state, Said Mohamed Djohar, signed a decree on September 24 instituting new constituency boundaries prior to [...]
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South Africa's military material manufacturer Armscor has named as its director of communication a former member of Umkhonto we Sizwe [...]
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Madagascar's chargé d'affaires in Paris, Jean Pierre Totobesola, who has been holding the fort since the ambassador was recalled, drafted [...]
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A preliminary determination by the US Department of Commerce has concluded that "South Africa is not subsidising steel exports to [...]
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Mauritius finance minister Ramakrishna Sithanen took advantage of a visit to Luxembourg last week to sign the protocol of agreement [...]
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French business missions proliferate with two more due to visit South Africa. The first is organised by Chambre de Commerce [...]
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Zimbabwe's head of state will be the guest of honour [...]
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Banque pour l'Industrie et le Commerce (BIC) has published the [...]
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The economist, and director of Portugal's telecommunications undertaking, went to [...]
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Talks were still continuing this week in an attempt to [...]
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The president of the National Assembly, Richard Andriamanjato, has been [...]
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Djibouti's head of state, Hassan Gouled Aptidon, recently announced that the "patriotic" levy intended to finance the country's military activities [...]
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Shortly before General Bruno Loi was eased out as general officer commanding the Italian contingent in UNOSOM 2 in favour [...]
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Relations between the Ethiopian government and its political opponents continue to deteriorate as next month's conference on national reconciliation comes [...]
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Western diplomacy's gun changed shoulders this week on Somalia with the US ambassador in Somalia, Robert Gosende, esteeming on September [...]
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Ethiopia's Council of Representatives (parliament) last week unanimously approved the government's finance bill, authorising a budget of 8.4 billion birr [...]
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The governing councils of African Development Bank (ADB) and African Development Fund (ADF) recently approved several financing packages. They include [...]
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On the occasion of the recent debate on United States' foreign aid, the US Senate Appropriations Committee commented the political [...]
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Tanzania will still be at the head of the list of beneficiaries of the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) for [...]
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Nomination of a new general manager for Chemin de Fer Djibouto-Ethiopien (CDE), which is expected around mid-October, has turned into [...]
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After a week of discussions in Asmara between an Ethiopian [...]
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The Italian transport boss, who worked for UNOSOM 2 and [...]
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Uganda's former head of state, who has been living in [...]
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The International Monetary Fund is expected to release a further [...]
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The US administration, via its embassy in Djibouti, has confirmed [...]
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A meeting of fund donors for Somalia has been called [...]
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Membership of the International Telecommunications Union has elevated Eritrea into [...]
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