Mozambique's outgoing head of state Joaquim Chissano is expected to be proclaimed the winner, very probably after ballot-counting for the first run of the multiparty presidential election, held on October 27 to 28, is completed next week.
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Japan has suspended all aid to the state-owned Zanzibar television station TVZ following complaints of bias made against the station [...]
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The steady rise of the Kenyan shilling against the US dollar abruptly ground to a halt on October 28. The [...]
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The seventh protocol of France's financial assistance package for Zimbabwe, worth some FFr.150 million (of which 50 percent is expected [...]
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The European Development Fund management committee is to consider allocating ECU 8.4 million (US$10.7 million) to a project to improve [...]
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Four high-ranking government officials (three ministers and a top official of National Provident Fund, NPF) are alleged to have been [...]
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Although progress continues with building an interconnection of the electricity grids of southern African countries, South Africa's state-owned electricity utility [...]
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A World Bank report with the startling title "Poverty in Paradise" slams the "highly unequal" distribution of incomes on the [...]
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The Tropical Africa Advisory Group (TAAG) from Britain's Department of Trade and Industry led by TAAG chairman Paul Barrett (ION [...]
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Germany decided last month to make available to Ethiopia an [...]
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About twenty foreign companies, including France's Cedex and Microkey, have [...]
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In 1995, Tanzania will still be the principal beneficiary of [...]
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A joint Kenyan-Ugandan inter-ministerial commission to combat cross-border theft and smuggling of livestock met in Eldoret and Kitale (Kenya) on [...]
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One and a half months after his nomination as police commissioner, one of the most important state posts under the [...]
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Two opposition parties, the MFM headed by opposition MP Manandafy Rakotonirina and Fihaonana headed by ex-prime minister Guy Willy Razanamasy, [...]
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United States Army sources have drawn a pretty sombre picture of the US army's intervention in Somalia as a contingent [...]
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France has got to bump up its trade relations with the two leading Anglophone countries in Africa, Nigeria and South [...]
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The Comoros' new prime minister, Halifa Houmadi, who was appointed on October 13 (ION N° 643), has made a move [...]
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The official Ethiopian news agency ENA announced on October 31 [...]
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South Africa's justice minister Dullah Omar, who submitted a government bill at the end of October to restructure the country's [...]
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The former mayor of Nairobi (ION N° 565) who had resigned in protest against the government blocking him and was [...]
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Portugal's former foreign minister (1987-1992) Joao De Deus Pinheiro has been named European Commissioner for relations with ACP countries and [...]
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The possible nomination of George Michel (who is currently chairman of the employers' federation COLIER) as Reunion Island honorary consul [...]
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Before leaving for France on November first to attend a [...]
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Energy minister Mahen Utchanah was dismissed from his post on [...]
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The former head of the cattle feed plant in Djibouti [...]
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Britain's foreign secretary will begin a week-long swing on November [...]
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The Seychelles' head of state will not be going to [...]
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The Seychelles government is considering privatizing the state-owned public works [...]
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