Illegal and undercover odds by Port Louis bookmakers on the result of this month's elections tally with more formal estimates put out by several Western embassies on Mauritius. All agree that the opposition looks to be heading for a comfortable [.
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The technical secretariat for structural adjustment headed by secretary general Daniel Ramarakoto presented a report on the state of Madagascar's [...]
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Many foreign companies have put in applications to the Eritrean authorities for permits to explore for gold and base metals. [...]
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Delegates of twenty-four Portuguese enterprises were due to visit Mozambique on the initiative of Associaçao Industrial Portuense, an employers' organization [...]
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The World Bank took the occasion of one of its recent missions to Djibouti to set a budget of 4.3 [...]
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The European Development Fund management committee is expected to give its approval shortly for a ECU 4 million support programme [...]
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Diverse government measures aimed at optimizing the Mauritian sugar industry [...]
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South Africa has rejected, for the time being at least, [...]
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Representatives of the Nairobi-based Equator Bank have stepped up their [...]
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US-based California Microwave Inc has been awarded a US$10 million [...]
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Kenyan police in Nairobi have since November 25 been systematically rounding up foreigners (mostly Rwandans, Somalis and Ugandans) whom the [...]
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The Italian government is divided on the stand to take towards the "government" set up in Somalia by general Mohamed [...]
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The Leader of the Opposition (and head of the Democratic Party) James Mancham has proposed forming a "grand coalition" with [...]
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Comoros Island head of state Said Mohamed Djohar, at present living on Reunion Island, addressed a letter on November 21 [...]
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Keeping up the image of "Mister Clean" that he extolled during the electoral campaign, Tanzania's incoming head of state Benjamin [...]
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Three more ministerial nominations announced last week by prime minister Emmanuel Rakotovahiny (ION N° 695) mean that his new government [...]
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The South African ambassador to the European Union, Neil Van Heerden, has handed his resignation to the Republic's foreign ministry [...]
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The offensive by colonel John Garang's Sudan People's Liberation Army against Sudanese armed forces in Equatoria (ION N° 693) continues [...]
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In a letter dated July 3 transmitted by fax from Hargeisa to the then Israeli prime minister, the late Yitshak [...]
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Four of Reunion Island's five MPs, two of its senators, and the chairmen of the island's two chambers (Ms. Margie [...]
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After having debated the military situation in Southern Sudan, Iran's Majlis Shura (parliament) decided to send a lightning mission to [...]
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A group from Madagascar's national police was this week in [...]
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According to a statement from Sudan People's Liberation Army, the [...]
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Partido Social Democrata (opposition) headed by former prime minister Cavaco [...]
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The ZANU-PF (government party) defector has pulled off her gamble of being elected to Zimbabwe's Parliament as an independent candidate [...]
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Tanzania's new prime minister was named by incoming head of state Benjamin Mkapa on November 27 (see "New blood in [...]
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The United Nations secretary general's representative for Somalia Abdi Kabla and the European Union's special envoy in that country Sigurd [...]
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The leader of Safina, the opposition party which has still [...]
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The French embassy's trade counsellor in Nairobi for several years, [...]
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France's council of ministers on November 29 appointed Robert Pommies, [...]
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