With the market for good old security services (surveillance, protection) in strong growth (+30 percent a year in South Africa, 250 companies in Kenya) but dominated by South African enterprises, American firms have used their undeniable technological advance to impose [.
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Head of state France Albert Rene is making a fifth shot at changing the Seychelles constitution, which dates from 1993, [...]
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The recent massacre of possibly more than a thousand members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments [...]
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Apart from the purchase of four SU-25 fighters from Shturmovik Sukhovo which the Russian firm revealed on April 3, the [...]
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If there is a FRELIMO (government) MP who is seen as much in Parliament as on the boards of major [...]
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Just eight months from the end of his government's mandate, prime minister Navin Ramgoolam sees a widening of his margins [...]
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United States Agency for International Development (USAID) director general Ms. [...]
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Association de la Femme Comorienne en France (AFCF) organized a [...]
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When Hassan Al Turabi recently went on the Hajj pilgrimage [...]
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Zimbabwean troops deployed in Democratic Republic of Congo have refused [...]
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Two Swiss companies have been retained to build a leisure park named CirnePark, which should see the day within three [...]
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The American firm CHS Electronics Inc of Miami (USA) was found guilty and fined US$250,000 by a Miami court on [...]
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A cut in water supplies of several hours in Maputo and Matola last week led Aguas de Moçambique, which administers [...]
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The very new (See 'Mboweni takes things in hand' in this issue) adviser to the governor of South African Reserve [...]
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The Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) new managing director, who is to prepare the state-owned corporation for privatization, knows it well [...]
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Following on the arrests of Zimbabwe's agriculture minister Kumbirai Kangai and Grain Marketing Board (GMB) CEO Martin Muchero, Swiss businessman [...]
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The director of the World Bank's Central Africa department, French national Serge Michailof, should in the coming weeks be named [...]
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Seven representatives of Zimbabwe's opposition spent more than a week in Washington, receiving a warm welcome from US government officials. [...]
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Eritrean diplomats did not appreciate the circumstances of the recent election of a Sudanese national as executive secretary of InterGovernmental [...]
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Like all reunions of its kind, the Africa-Europe summit meeting in Cairo this week was the occasion for many bilateral [...]
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Banque de Solidarite Malgache (BSM) shareholders on April 2 elected Justin Randrianasolo as board chairman, but on the same occasion [...]
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Submitted to a campaign to boycott its canned pineapple launched by trade unionists and NGOs in Italy (the country to [...]
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The Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS), which is linked to the World Bank subsidiary International Finance Corporation (IFC), is preparing [...]
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Named in August 1999, the first Black governor of South African Reserve Bank (central bank) has just reinforced his control [...]
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The group of French and Swiss businessmen which recently submitted (ION 894) a proposal to set up a national airline [...]
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The textile subsidiary of Groupe Giblot Ducray is to invest [...]
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The contracts of all South African nationals working for state-owned [...]
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One after the other, the World Bank and International Monetary [...]
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Following the closure of the Africa-Europe summit meeting in Cairo [...]
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The World Bank economist now on mission on Mauritius is [...]
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Mozambique's minister of tourism will be in Paris on April [...]
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Madagascar's new consul in Lyons (France) lived on Madagascar from [...]
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Following an ION editorial (ION 897), the manager of Djibouti [...]
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British American Tobacco (BAT) has set up a subsidiary in [...]
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