Latest in a whole series of similar incidents, the military brush between an armed Islamic group belonging to Jihad Eritrea from Sudan and the Eritrean army last month swept Eritrean-Sudanese relations almost over the brink (see page 2, in this [.
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Sudan's National Urban Water Corporation (NUWC) is to obtain, via the government, a loan of US$23.5 million from African Development [...]
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If the Kenyan government can manage, by about this time next week, to wrap up their dossier applying for a [...]
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The Zimbabwe government and the African Development Fund (ADF, a subsidiary of the African Development Bank) are considering co-financing a [...]
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Madagascar's head of state Albert Zafy, National Assembly president Richard Andriamanjato, and energy and mining ministry director-general Sylvestre Panoel Randriamanana [...]
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The African Development Fund (ADF) is expected to grant Madagascar a loan to finance a study on the agricultural sector, [...]
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The Republic of South Africa appears to have been the [...]
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Following ten days of final negotiations at the end of [...]
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A French group, BCEOM-BRGM-Coyne & Bellier, and several north European [...]
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The agriculture minister, Simeon Nyachae, announced last week that the [...]
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A report from the French parliamentary commission on economic activities [...]
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Several public opinion polls, carried out in Maputo in December following social unrest and riots sparked by price increases in [...]
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The leader of Somali National Alliance (SNA), general Mohamed Farah Aideed, arrived in Nairobi from Addis Ababa on December 29 [...]
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According to information received by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from diplomatic sources in Addis Ababa, the British government recently informed [...]
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The recent appointment of a son-in-law of the head of state Said Mohamed Djohar, Said Mohamed Sagaf, as foreign minister [...]
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Tanzania's Swahili-language weekly Moto Moto recently claimed that the country's prime minister (and first vice-president) John Malecela had used his [...]
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The results of the second round of voting on the Comoros Islands, announced by the supervisory commission on December 24, [...]
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The Djibouti army has retaliated for several attacks sprung by Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie [...]
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An armed group belonging to Jihad Eritrea which penetrated into Eritrea from neighbouring Sudanese territory was wiped out on December [...]
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The African National Congress national chairman Thabo Mbeki, who was visiting Mauritius privately until January 4, took advantage of his [...]
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Leaders of Oromo Peoples' Democratic Organization (OPDO, an organ of [...]
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The Republic of South Africa's new ambassador to the Comoros [...]
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The visit of the Primate of the Church of England (and archbishop of Canterbury) to southern Sudan at the end [...]
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The Comoros Islands' new prime minister (see page 4, in this issue) studied in Poland and Algeria and was awarded [...]
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The new directeur de cabinet for the chairman of Reunion Island's Regional Council, Ms. Margie Sudre, has been the former [...]
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New managing directors were appointed at the end of December to head two of Madagascar's most important state companies. Ntsay [...]
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The European Union's commissioner for development is to visit Asmara [...]
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France's cooperation minister is expected to go to Madagascar on [...]
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The French foreign minister's visit to the Republic of South [...]
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Struck by the United States' recent retreat before Somalia's general [...]
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The lands minister announced recently that with Tanzania's new system [...]
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China's deputy prime minister (and foreign minister) is to make [...]
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