An important reorganization of Uganda's army high command got under way in mid-December as the armed forces braced for possible cross-frontier attacks from Sudan following reports of huge troop movements in southern Sudan. According to information obtained by The Indian [.
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Almost twenty years after the Rhodesian army laid mines along the country's frontier with Mozambique and Zambia between 1974 and [...]
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The Seychelles government's decision to push through a Bill offering immunity from prosecution to investors who brought US$10 million into [...]
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After a series of marathon meetings over the last three days of 1995, the Malagasy government managed to hammer out [...]
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The EU has approved a grant of 5.6 million ECU (just over US$7 million) to rehabilitate the 41-km long Mutsamudu-Sima-Pomoni [...]
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The chairman of Reunion Island's regional economic and social council, Tony Manglou, has been named departmental secretary of Rassemblement pour [...]
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At the conclusion of a special meeting of the council of ministers held in a stormy atmosphere last week, the [...]
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Representatives from Paris and Reunion Island of the Grande Loge Nationale de France, one of the French Freemason groups, are [...]
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Incoming Mauritian finance minister Rundheersing Bheenick, who has taken over from incumbent Ramakrishna Sithanen, is a man who knows the [...]
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During his latest trip to Madagascar at the end of November (ION N° 693), Frenchman businessman Vincent Bolloré, who heads [...]
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After his unprecedented electoral defeat (ION N° 699), former prime minister Anerood Jugnauth no longer has any MPs to support [...]
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The Reunion Island-based Sucreries de Bourbon is currently negotiating with [...]
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Head of state Albert Zafy was recently enthroned by an [...]
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Several sources claim that national assembly chairman Reverend Richard Andriamanjato [...]
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A Washington hearing of the Foreign Relations Commission of the [...]
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The composition of the 40-person electoral campaign team named by head of state Yoweri Museveni for the presidential election in [...]
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French industry considers that relations between Sudan and the International Monetary Fund might improve during 1996 or at the beginning [...]
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Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi is to make an official visit to France from January 21 to 24 at the [...]
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French embassy trade counsellors in East Africa will be organizing their traditional annual get-together for company representatives, in Djibouti this [...]
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Ethiopian foreign minister Seyoum Mesfin this week continued his efforts to mediate between Eritrea and Yemen, striving to find a [...]
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Uganda Posts and Telecommunications Corporation has placed an order worth one billion Ugandan shillings (about US$1 million) for sophisticated telephone [...]
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The latest catalogue of French tour operator Nouvelles Frontières vaunts the merits of Moka Marine holiday village, on Yemen's Red [...]
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The attempt by William Nyuon Bany to restructure the South Sudan Independence Movement and bring it closer to the Sudan [...]
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Although the "interior minister" (Mohamed Qanyare Afrah) in the "interim government" of general Mohamed Farah Aideed had, at the end [...]
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Sudan has named a 27-year old PhD and environmental science specialist to head the National Electricity Corporation. Currently chairman of [...]
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Sudan's justice minister announced in Khartoum last week that the [...]
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Sweden's minister for development aid, Pierre Schori, is due to [...]
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The World Bank has put two new loan projects into [...]
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Following an international Call for bids issued in September, the [...]
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