In the run up to the presidential elections in Djibouti on May 7 and 21, tension is mounting again. Fighting erupted in mid-March between the government forces and those of the rebel Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de [.
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The attacks on March 16 and 17 in the Comoros, on the homes of French expatriate, Jacques Barbet, director of [...]
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The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), is to begin this year a transport improvement project in Mozambique, [...]
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The Portuguese government has decided to send a 250-strong battalion to Mozambique under the command of the United Nations Operation [...]
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In spite of his age (72 years old), the former Chief Justice of Zimbabwe, Enoch Dumbutshena, is about to become [...]
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The plan to revamp Madagascar's tele-communications system that was adopted after lengthy negotiations in early December 1992 (ION N°557) does [...]
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A joint IMF and World Bank mission was in the Comoros Islands capital, Moroni on march 22, to examine conditions [...]
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Last year sixteen United States companies set up subsidiaries in, or sent new employees, to South Africa. Six of these [...]
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The Mauritian Council of Ministers approved on March 19 an increase in electricity production for the Central Electricity Board (CEB), [...]
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The investigation led by Roman judge, Vittorio Paraggio into the misappropriation of Italian cooperation aid by the Italian Socialist Party [...]
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A special parliamentary committee in Zimbabwe has called for the entire board of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) to resign [...]
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The International Development Association (IDA) a World Bank affiliate, has [...]
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The Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZIFT), set to open on [...]
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The Mauritian President on 31 March, began an official visit [...]
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The Zimbabwean Defence Minister confirmed this week, that a reduction [...]
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A Seychelles Chamber of Commerce (SCC) was founded in Mahe [...]
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One of the two European bishops in Mozambique, the Archbishop [...]
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The Building Industries Federation of South Africa (BIFSA) recently estimated [...]
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According to a recent study carried out by Petroconsultants of Geneva, Switzerland on oil potential in East Africa, Somalia has [...]
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During a press conference in Addis Ababa on March 29, Ethiopia's President Meles Zenawi distinguished two different types of opposition. [...]
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The former Somali prime minister, an Issaq, and one of the architects of the union of Somaliland (former British colony) [...]
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International donor agencies are likely to withdraw their assistance to wildlife conservation programmes in Tanzania if the government does not [...]
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France has lost ground in the fight for posts at the command of the United Nations' second Somalia operation, UNOSOM [...]
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The French ambassador in Nairobi, Kenya, Michel Bonnecorse's presence, at a garden party thrown by the Kenyan President, Daniel arap [...]
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Followers of Colonel John Garang's faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), under commander Kuol Manyang Juk, in the [...]
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Ethiopia's minister of planning and development, Douri Mohamed was appointed Chancellor of Addis Ababa University on March 29. The University [...]
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In a report on its technical cooperation activities in Africa, dated March 15, the United Nations Conference on Trade and [...]
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In November 1992, the Africa specialist in the French conservative [...]
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The Somalia News Update based in Uppsala, Sweden by Bernhard [...]
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The interim authorities in Asmara have published a list of [...]
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In his first address to the United States Senate on [...]
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The second-in-command of the National Islamic Front (NIF) of Sudan, [...]
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The United States accorded on March 29 development aid worth [...]
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