Fearing violent reactions by the government and under pressure from Western diplomats, the Ethiopian opposition withdrew its call for a general strike and accepted to re-establish dialogue with the Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. In doing so, the leaders of the [.
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The Kenyan Minister of Trade, Mukhisa Kituyi, is to lead a delegation of about fifty people on a trade mission [...]
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The Renamo (opposition) General Herminio Morais has just been to Lisbon to attend a family ceremony in memory of his [...]
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The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and General Motors East Africa are organising a seminar in Sweden [...]
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The Egyptian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of African affairs, Mohamed Higazy, toured around the islands in the [...]
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The European Union would like the Madagascan presidential election in 2007 to take place in good conditions. It is already preparing the ground.
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The government of the Union has put the blame for the rise in the price of oil products on the IMF. It has suggested a few corrective measures.
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Many opposition groups have been riding high in Addis Ababa since the Parliamentary elections in May. The OLF on the other hand is taking up diplomatic initiatives.
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Mozambican former ministers and top civil servants have lately been accumulating appointments to posts of responsibility in international organisations.
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The French-Ivorian Jean-Claude La Cote is coming back into the headlines again. La Cote, 39, who has lived in South [...]
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Foreign companies owning farms or other land properties are afraid they might be victims of government expropriation.
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An Australian firm has won the exclusive rights for the exploration and development of all minerals and hydrocarbons in Puntland.
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The groups Rites and Sheltam/Comazar are systematically in competition for all the contracts to privatise the railways.
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A series of contracts won by French companies these last few months could be crowned with the sale of aircraft from Airbus to Ethiopian Airlines.
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Several new director generals or senior executives of foreign companies have recently taken up their functions in Antananarivo.
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The British magnate Nicholas Van Hoogstraten is believed to have declined the Zimabwe government’s idea of raising funds from the [...]
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President Marc Ravalomanana’s advisor in ecotourism (ION 1147), the German Max Haberstroh has started work on spending the $500,000 that [...]
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After having made a noticeable entry into the oil sector in Sudan, Indian companies are now looking to Kenya. Hindustan [...]
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The high operating costs in fisheries are putting the Seychelles at a disadvantage compared to its East African neighbours and [...]
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The next ambassador of Great Britain to Eritrea, Nicholas Paul Astbury, is a young 34 year old diplomat. He will [...]
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The former South African ambassador to the Netherlands, Devikarani Priscilla Sewpal Jana, has just presented her credentials in Ireland. Jana [...]
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A 65 year old retired judge, M.P.H. Rubin, has just been made Singapore’s ambassador to South Africa. He will take [...]
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The European Union (EU) has just designated the German national, Claudia Wiedey-Nippold as its new head of delegation to Port [...]
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Writing in a report dated 31 August ordered by the [...]
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The Secretary General of the Kenyan Central Organisation of Trade [...]
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The government of Djibouti made a number of undertakings in [...]
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President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh signed a decree on 3 September [...]
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The chairperson of the General Council of Reunion Island, Nassimah [...]
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A French independent consultant, Timothée Lacroix, is currently visiting the [...]
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The UAP Provincial Insurance Company Ltd, one of the leading [...]
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As from next year, De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBCM) will [...]
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The British company D1 Oils Plc, specialised in the production [...]
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The Indian group Tata Motors, which owns 40% of the [...]
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The Dubai based firm Emirates Airline has a new executive [...]
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The Malagasy Minister of Foreign Affairs has just appointed Ms [...]
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The government of Cuba has appointed Cosme Torres Espinosa to [...]
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Two of the five ambassadors who have just presented their [...]
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