The opposition win in the Mauritius general election on 3 July was very clear cut. The result was close to that predicted by The Indian Ocean Newsletter (ION 1138). The Prime Minister Paul Bérenger has now been put into the [.
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Eighteen black companies are involved in the consortium selected to build the high speed train between Johannesburg and Pretoria.
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The family assets of the previous President Didier Ratsiraka have all been dismantled.
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Galahad Gold, a firm created by Ian Watson, Angelos Damaskos and Graham Mascall in 2003 and listed on the London [...]
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Anders Möllander has just been appointed Sweden's ambassador to South Africa. In 1999-2000 he was the diplomat who had chaired [...]
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Michel Bimha, one of the cousins of Grace Mugabe, wife of the President of Zimbabwe, has been appointed chairman of [...]
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Major General Jean Samedi, an officer of the gendarmerie, has become the new director general of planning and operations of [...]
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The embassy of the United States to Antananarivo will be moved to the outskirts of the city by March 2007. [...]
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The Portuguese diplomatic circles are extremely concerned while waiting for Mozambique to make its choice of its next ambassador to [...]
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The delegation of the Human Rights Association of the Seychelles (HRAS), led by Pauline Ferrari and Virginie Thelermont, which went [...]
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Since Jacques Sylla arrived at the head of the government, people from the island of Sainte Marie, off the East [...]
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The government of the Union formed on 4 July consists mainly of people loyal to President Assoumani Azali drawn from the ranks of his party.
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A delegation of representatives of the South African electric company [...]
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The Bureau Indépendant anti-corruption (Bianco) headed by General René Ramarozatovo [...]
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Some of the neighbours are finding the strengthening of security [...]
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Namibia has just designated a new ambassador to Zimbabwe, in [...]
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Former Prime Minister of Mozambique, Pascoal Mocumbi, has been appointed [...]
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Michel Roussin, deputy chairman of the Bolloré group and chairman [...]
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In the face of a large fall in the world price and demand for vanilla, Ugandan exporters are unable to find buyers for it.
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Since the beginning of the year, the Office Malgache de Régulation des Télécommunications (Omert) has refused to attribute the Italian [...]
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The Slovakian industrial firm Matador, based in Puchov in the west of Slovakia, is planning to double the production of [...]
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The Norwegian firm Genomar has completed its tests on a special species of fast growing tilapia fish. Fillets of this [...]
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After having played a waiting game with the opposition, the governing coalition is now seeking to sharpen the internal divisions among its opponents.
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In spite of concluding a first peace agreement with the government of Khartoum, the rebels in Darfur are torn by internal conflicts.
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The Minister of Justice Kiraitu Murungi has linked with the media magnate Samuel Kamau Macharia to launch a radio station [...]
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As part of the programme to deregulate the radio waves under way in Zanzibar, the first private radio station to be licenced is owned by a minister in the government of Tanzania.
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No less than five major Chinese firms specialised in the construction industry are present in Ethiopia.
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Joaquim Gonzalez-Ducay, the new chargé d'affaires of the European Commission (EC) has just taken up his functions in Djibouti. Gonzalez-Ducay, [...]
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The armies of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are sealing off the border between the two countries [...]
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A Meru MP has filed accusations of regional discrimination against two ministers with President Kibaki.
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The staff of Mega Corporation are worried about their future. [...]
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President Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed of Somalia has still not returned [...]
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The ambassador of Djibouti to Qatar, Mohamadeh Ali Mohamadeh presented [...]
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The government of Uganda has just accepted the credentials of [...]
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The Swedish NGO International Aid Services (IAS) has just suspended [...]
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The creation of an Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation [...]
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The International Development Research Centre (IDRC), a Canadian State organisation [...]
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