The ethnic question stands, shorn of decor and make-up, on the forefront of a Kenyan political stage which is increasingly chopped up according to community solidarity, both with the KANU party and with the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy [.
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Mozambique's head of state, president Joaquim Chissano, telephoned "a few weeks ago" to his Portuguese opposite number, Mario Soares, to [...]
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The peace negotiations in Abuja (ION N° 529) which ended unsuccessfully this week have produced some astonishing turnabouts. Contrary to [...]
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During a recent public debate in Asmara, the president of the provisional Eritrean government, Issayas Afewerki, said that for financial [...]
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A meeting between representatives of different tendencies of the Djiboutian opposition was preparing to meet in Paris this week. On [...]
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On his recent return from a mission to South Africa, with a view to securing a promise for the reopening [...]
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Madagascar's head of state, President Didier Ratsiraka, told the daily Midi Madagasikara, in an exclusive interview published on 27 May, [...]
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One of the five people against whom an international arrest warrant has been issued by the French judge, Roger Le [...]
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The African-American Institute (AAI) is organising a four-week trip to the United States on behalf of the US Information Agency [...]
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During its session on May 26, the Ethiopian Council of Representatives, the parliament, condemned the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) for [...]
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The interim secretary general of Forum for the Restoration of [...]
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Burundi refugees who have settled at Kigoma, in the western [...]
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The Seychelles Institute for Democracy of the former minister for [...]
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This retired army colonel and former member of military intelligence prior to 1989 was condemned to death on 28 May [...]
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The new representative of the United Nations Development Programme in Madagascar is an Oxford graduate who has had African postings [...]
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The retired High Court judge, who today has a legal practice in the southern city of Bulawayo, is interim chairman [...]
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Spain's new ambassador to the Seychelles presented his credentials to the head of state, president France Albert Rene, last week. [...]
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Egypt has appointed Mohamed Afifi Badir a minister Plenipotentiary, to head its permanent diplomatic mission in Asmara. In an interview [...]
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The leader of the National Islamic Front (NIF), Hassan Al Tourabi, who was on a private visit in Canada after [...]
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Britain's minister for overseas development, Lynda Chalker, announced on 1 June that Great Britain has granted further emergency food aid [...]
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At the end of an international conference held in Geneva, Switzerland, this week, to discus aid for the ten southern [...]
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Some 50,000 Eritreans who left refugee camps in the Sudan to return to Eritrea, following the Eritrean People's Liberation Front [...]
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The European Community has approved a programme of ECU 3.5 million (about 4.4 million US dollars) financed by its Regional [...]
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The Public Sector Investment Programme (PSIP) being worked out by Mauritius' ministry of planning and economic development is expected to [...]
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An Italian environmental group, the Italian union for the development [...]
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The financial director of the French group Accor-Pullman, Ferraris, was [...]
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According to the magazine Regar, which is published by one [...]
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Japan granted Dar-es-Salaam aid amounting to 7.6 million dollars on [...]
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Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, who is responsible for government activities on [...]
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Zanzibar's chief minister, has announced that the local authorities have [...]
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Girma Ghennet, who represents the Coalition of Ethiopian Democratic Forces [...]
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Pierre Soubiron, author of the explosive novel "La Poudrière des [...]
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