Nairobi's relations with its multilateral fund donors seem to be on the up and up. The World Bank has approved two loans for Kenya totalling US$165 million this week and the IMF, which has just completed a special mission to [.
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Uganda Investment Authority says it has registered applications for 1,400 investments projects worth some US$2.12 billion since it opened its [...]
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US ambassador to Sudan Timothy Carney informed the Sudanese authorities on January 31 that diplomatic relations between the two countries [...]
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The United Nations security council unanimously adopted a resolution on January 31 calling on Sudan to extradite to Ethiopia three [...]
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The International Monetary Fund faxed a letter to Djibouti finance minister Mohamed Ali Mohamed on December 24 to inform him [...]
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Currently made up of seven member-states (Australia, India, Kenya, Mauritius, Oman, Singapore, South Africa), the Indian Ocean Rim group will [...]
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As head of state Hassan Gouled Aptidon slowly gets over a major haemorrhage (diagnosed by French military doctors as a [...]
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Canadian mining company Rift Resource, represented in Addis Ababa by [...]
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The British minister of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs [...]
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The outgoing head of the US State Department's East Africa [...]
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According to some analysts, the Harare stock exchange is expected to have an excellent year with a sharp increase in [...]
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The leader of the Seychelles' United Opposition, Reverend Wavel Ramkalawan, and a member of the party's executive committee which has [...]
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The new Mauritian government has axed the ministry responsible for the affairs of tiny Rodrigues Island. Under the previous administration [...]
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The African Development Fund (a subsidiary of the African Development Bank) has just begun examination of two loans for Madagascar [...]
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As expected (ION N° 701), Mozambique's permanent representative to the United Nations Pedro Comissario has been named ambassador to Portugal. [...]
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Madagascar's parliamentary opposition in the G7 movement is currently discussing a campaign to impeach the head of state Albert Zafy [...]
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Two articles concerning the Comoros Islands published by The Indian Ocean Newsletter on January 13 (ION N° 701) have sparked [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, police and customs on Reunion Island investigating an affair of forged [...]
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As head of the Federation of Civil Service Unions which groups all civil servants' trade unions, Rashid Imrith has become [...]
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The Portuguese telecommunications utility Portugal Telecom has moved towards a partnership with Vodacom, a subsidiary of the South African state-owned [...]
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The European Parliament's fisheries commission has authorized the renewal of the fishery agreement between the European Union and Madagascar for [...]
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In the framework of the Franco-African meeting in Paris on January 25 which brought together the delegates of thirty-four African [...]
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The South African state-owned electricity utility ESKOM has asked about twenty companies to submit financial tenders by February 16 for [...]
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The reticence of several member-states of the European Union to the idea of a free trade agreement with the Republic [...]
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Laurent Ramarosaona, managing director of the Coroi group, said on [...]
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Representatives of the European Union attending a recent meeting in [...]
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The first-ever Black mayor of Dallas (Texas), Roland Kirk, was [...]
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The prime minister of Gauteng Province is to visit the [...]
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