Eighteen months after he came to power, Djibouti head of state Ismail Omar Gelleh was confronted with his first serious political crisis on December 7 when his authority was seriously contested for several hours by the chief of staff of [.
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The Ethiopian government is making peace with Eritrea (an agreement in legal terms is to be discussed in Algiers on [...]
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The group of thirteen Eritrean intellectual signatories of the Berlin Manifesto, which highly criticized head of state Isaias Afwerki (ION [...]
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Somalia's interim government has designated general Mumin Ibrahim as head of the country's new police force, with ex-warlord colonel Abdi [...]
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Gibson Kamau Kuria, chairman of Law Society of Kenya (LSK), has written to professor Yash Pal Ghai, the new chairman [...]
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Back in Sudan on November 23 after four years in exile (ION 928), ex-prime minister Sadiq al Mahdi was able [...]
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Judge Benjamin Odoki is expected to take over from Ugandan [...]
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Several officials of Oromia Regional State have been relieved of [...]
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Societe Reunionnaise des Produits Petroliers (SRPP) and the authorities on the French possession of Mayotte Island have begun the last [...]
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Following the agreement reached with the American company VeriSign (ION 926 and 927), ComoreTel (a subsidiary of the Americano-European group [...]
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Representatives of consultants Arthur Andersen were on Mayotte Island last week to finalize the specifications for an international Call for [...]
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Madagascar's Office des Mines Nationales et des Industries Stratégiques (OMNIS) signed two agreements with Exploration Production Network (Xpronet, held 49 [...]
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A team from Comazar (a subsidiary of the South African utility Transnet and the French group Bolloré) was in Uganda [...]
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Businessmen close to prime minister Anerood Jugnauth seem to be coming back into favour since the MMM/MSM government alliance came [...]
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Thanks to financing of US$83,600 from United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), the US firm Eccles Associates Inc has [...]
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A shortage of petroleum products aggravated by panic buying by [...]
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One of the rare Luo leaders of an opposition party other than National Democratic Party (NDP, Luo domination), Joe Aketch [...]
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A new head of service of development and cultural action took up his functions in the French embassy in Antananarivo [...]
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The board chairman of South African Airways (SAA) is to relieve Saki Macozoma at the head of Transnet (transport) on [...]
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A 48-year old Spanish national who speaks English, French, Italian and Portuguese is to head the European Union delegation on [...]
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The International Maritime Tribunal for the law of the seain Hamburg (Germany) is expected on December 8 to hear a [...]
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The Seychelles-based regional organization Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) is planning to carry out a major inquiry on tuna stocks [...]
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Professor Andre Salifou, the representative of Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), has been trying since the end of November [...]
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The VTech Holdings (computer and electronic games) board chaired by [...]
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French cement group Lafarge has failed to take over its [...]
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Chantier Piriou, Corcarneau (western France), and the joint venture partner [...]
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Experts from the British firm DHV Consultants recently carried out [...]
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The lawyer of the Democrat candidate in the US presidentials, [...]
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The former telecommunications minister and present chairman of Development Bank [...]
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