Uganda's elections of March 28 for the constituent assembly may have been an undoubted success for the head of state, Yoweri Museveni, but they are unlikely to allow his party National Resistance Movement (NRM) to become an autonomous political force.
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For Fiscal 1994, the International Development Association (IDA, a subsidiary of the World Bank) does not expect to grant Kenya [...]
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The Ugandan government and fund donors recently worked out a programme over four years (1994 to 1998) for maintenance work [...]
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In an interview published in the government weekly Al Watwan on March 30, the managing director of Air Comoros, Anis [...]
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Following the sale of state-owned hotels to the Malay group Berjaya Leisure (ION N° 598), privatization is to continue in [...]
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The African Development Bank (ADB) is to finance a pre-investment study with a view to rehabilitating and extending the sugar [...]
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The airline Air Zimbabwe is threatening to sue Assistair, a Marseilles-based company, for breach of contract. A source in Zimbabwe [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, the Mauritius government has sharply cut back the request it put [...]
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According to the manager of the Beira Corridor Group, David Zausmer, the excessively high tariffs applied by the government of [...]
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A European Investment Bank mission is expected in Asmara shortly [...]
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The categoric No from officials of the General Agreement on [...]
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Following renewed inter-ethnic violence at Burn Forest, in Uasin Gisho District, at the beginning of last week when twelve people [...]
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The number two man in RENAMO's Lisbon delegation, Luis Gouveia, has been promoted to principal delegate of the movement in [...]
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The United Nations' observers, of whom there are already three hundred on the ground, will number 1,200 from the middle [...]
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French and Eritrean officials are working out details for an official visit by the head of state Isaias Afwerki, planned [...]
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Judge Richard Goldstone, who has been responsible since 1991 for investigating political violence in South Africa and in particular the [...]
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The electoral agreement between Paul Berenger's Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM) and Navin Ramgoolam's Labour Party should be submitted for approval [...]
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The French government has been bringing friendly pressure to bear on the authorities in Moroni for some time, to obtain [...]
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A voluminous, still unpublished internal report by an inquiry commission [...]
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A military communique of the Islamic Front for the Liberation [...]
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A Djibouti minister recently privately reproached prime minister Barkat Gourad [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, the [...]
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Local lawyer Desiré Basset has turned down the nomination as president of the Anti-Corruption Tribunal of Mauritius (ION N° 613) [...]
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Ms. Vera de Hen was in Paris at the end of March as counsellor in foreign investments for the Western [...]
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Kipruto Rono arap Kirwa, the MP for Cherangani in Uasin Gishu District who was recently ordered by president Daniel arap [...]
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The young brother of Mauritius' prime minister Anerood Jugnauth was sworn in as employment and public works minister on March [...]
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As the World Bank in Washington announced the award of [...]
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The Comoros' ambassador in Paris appears to be targetted by [...]
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The president of RENAMO is to visit Portugal from April [...]
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Following a visit to Khartoum and meetings with Sudan's head [...]
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Mozambique's labour minister on April 6 accused a group of [...]
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