Since the middle of last year, more than US$100 million worth of sapphires are believed to have been mined on Madagascar, especially in the southern part of the country, where income from the 'blue gold' is busy dethroning that coming [.
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The new permanent representative of the Republic of South Africa to the United Nations, Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo knows the United [...]
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It is finally to the ministry of craft industries and industrialization directed by Mamy Ratovomalala that Ms. Aline Ralainarivo Mara [...]
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The Intertrade affair is back again, with an appeal court hearing expected in Rome (Italy) in June. The case concerns [...]
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Ultra-conservative leaders of the ZANU-PF government party have begun a campaign of denunciation of party MPs they consider too critical [...]
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The Mozambican ministry of health is preparing, in collaboration with the ministry of labour, a government bill intended to protect [...]
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The motion submitted February 8 to the office of the French national assembly by Reunion Island MP Andre Thien Ah [...]
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With no consensus among its members, it is the head of state Joaquim Chissano who has named Jamisse Taimo chairman [...]
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The Seychelles has designated two new ambassadors. Bertrand Rassool, an [...]
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Head of state France Albert Rene met the Leader of [...]
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Police commissioner Raj Dayal has been implicated in the report [...]
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One of Mozambique's largest state-owned industrial companies, tyremaker Mabor, is [...]
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The Mauritian authorities are campaigning for their fellow citizen Vijay [...]
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Israeli and Russian experts will be starting training crews for the Ugandan air force at Soroti Flying School, in the [...]
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Head of state general Yoweri Museveni acknowledged criticism formulated against several of his ministers by the parliament in Kampala by [...]
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The government of Puntland, the autonomous region in north-east Somalia, decreed on April 7 a state of emergency in the [...]
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The World Bank has just approved a credit line of US$40 million which will be added to the financing of [...]
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Board directors of National Bank of Kenya resigned on April 7, thus assuming responsibility for the heavy debt which has [...]
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While the Ethiopian ambassador in Washington, Berhane Gebre Christos, does some lobbying (See New lobbying in USA in this issue), [...]
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The new Ugandan prime minister is Apollo Nsibambi, who is aged about sixty years and of Baganda origin. A political [...]
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The Ugandan government has introduced new measures aimed at cleansing [...]
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Head of state Daniel arap Moi finally reappointed George Saitoti [...]
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The French delegation which was to have gone to Mayotte [...]
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The Tanzanian High Commissioner in London, Abdul Shareef, last month [...]
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A third small privately-owned airline, Abyssinia Flight Services, popped up in Ethiopia alongside General Systems Engineering and Gosh Air (ION [...]
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The Republic of South Africa is apparently not content with running arms into Algeria (which was the principal client in [...]
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Ms. Nadine Carron, board chairman of Biomad, has contested a report in The Indian Ocean Newsletter (ION 851) that Madagascar's [...]
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The Indian government on March 31 launched a programme to issue special identity cards to persons of Indian origin who [...]
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Malawi and Tanzania are facing a curious problem of trying to pin down a moving target: the common frontier as [...]
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The Ethiopian government has reinforced its lobbying activities in the United States by hiring a US public relations consultant for [...]
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United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has granted South [...]
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Anadarko Petroleum's third well, drilled for oil on Eritrea's Edd [...]
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Portuguese group Orey e Antunes has set itself up in [...]
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Rallis India Ltd., which dominates India's sector of chemical products [...]
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