President Isaias Afwerki has no intention of letting the ruling PFDJ reformers organize before the legislative elections scheduled for December 2001.
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The disarming of the Karimojong warriors in North-Eastern Uganda is a failure, partly because of the diversion of the funds [...]
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Slowly but surely forming are the electoral campaign teams of the candidates for the presidential election of December 16. As [...]
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The legislative election of December 2002 promise to be much more open than the previous one. Indeed the referendum law [...]
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Held in Nairobi on August 24, the convention of delegates from the ruling Kenya African National Union (Kanu) and the [...]
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The instincts of France Albert René were right on target when he called for elections two years ahead of schedule. [...]
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A pair of announcements, in the area of politics as [...]
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As predicted by The Indian Ocean Newsletter in early June [...]
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In spite of the fact that during a visit to North-Eastern Tanzania last week, President Benjamin Mkapa denounced the pressure [...]
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In the framework of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), the South African company Makhosi Holdings is [...]
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Having registered losses during the first semester of 2001 double those of the same period last year, Kenmare Resources Plc [...]
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Led by Richard Wersbette and including Wolfgang Fengler among others, a World Bank mission ended its working visit to the [...]
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Representing Kobil Petroleum Ltd, the Field-Marsham & Co law office of Nairobi has written to The Indian Ocean Newsletter to [...]
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While Fakridine Mahamoud (the son of Colonel Mahamoud Mradabi and the cabinet director of President Assoumani Azali) continues to supervise [...]
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Hired by the previous direction of Air Mauritius – then piloted by Vijay Poonoosamy, the younger brother of the ruling [...]
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The vice chairmain of the Bank of Abyssinia, who traveled from Ethiopia to the United States last July (ION 958), [...]
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Mohamed Hussein Al Amoudi has founded a new company in [...]
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After Angola and Cape Verde, the Jean Piaget Institute will [...]
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The new head of the Société d'Etudes, de Construction, et de Reparation Navales (Secren) is well versed in the intricacies [...]
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The next man to head the United States Embassy in South Africa will be the former U.S. Ambassador to Algeria. [...]
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In all likelihood, Sigurd Illing's last posting will be in Kampala, where the 60-year-old Bavarian Social Democrat has just taken [...]
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Following the shareholders' unanimous vote during a general assembly of the Awash International Bank (AIB) in Addis Ababa on August [...]
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Because of the lack of certainty over a possible postponement of the hearings of the letters rogatory he sent to [...]
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The State Department in Washington is skeptical about the Sudan peace initiative announced this week by the Africa specialists in [...]
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Dated March 2001 and drawn up after a visit to the "front", an internal note of the Caritas Germany NGO [...]
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Bids for the privatization of the Telecom Malagasy (Telma) company [...]
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On August 30, Courts Plc opened a credit sales furniture [...]
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On September 5, AngloGold offered to buy the Australian company [...]
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One of South Africa's largest reinsurance companies is looking to [...]
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In early August, the United States Agency for International Development [...]
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