The collective departure from the government on July 6 of eighteen ministers who had been elected to Parliament in the May 17 election is seen likely to force head of state Didier Ratsiraka to launch a major reshuffle including perhaps [.
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Troops of Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF, ruling in Addis Ababa) and Ethiopia-based Sudanese rebels are reported to have [...]
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US president Bill Clinton's newly appointed special adviser for African affairs (and a senior director of the National Security Council) [...]
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The diplomatic circles of Nairobi are rustling with rumours of the next ministerial reshuffle destined to reduce the number of [...]
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Already difficult in the past, relations between general Yacin Yabe Galeb, head of Djibouti's Force Nationale de Police, and finance [...]
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The InterGovernmental Authority on Development's technical committee has elaborated a project for a peace plan in two steps to end [...]
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The splits between separatist leaders on Anjouan Island over the future of the movement this week led the island's chairman [...]
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The July 6 celebration of the Comoros Islands' 23rd anniversary of independence turned out to be a gloomy occasion. Festivities [...]
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Members of the Tanzanian Parliament's Public Accounts Committee have been urged to refuse in future under-the-table bribes and other gifts [...]
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An Anglican churchman, Reverend French Chang Him, accused the Seychelles [...]
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Against the advice of Malagasy ministers concerned, World Bank specialist [...]
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Uganda's head of state flew to Eritrea and on to [...]
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In an interview beamed by Eritrean state television on July [...]
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Former Tanzanian president Ali Hassan Mwinyi recently invited about a [...]
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Head of state Yoweri Museveni has reorganized the Ugandan army [...]
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Abadallah Gabber, a political adviser to head of state Isaias [...]
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On the eve of the International Monetary Fund mission in Zimbabwe this week, the IMF resident representative in Harare, Roberto [...]
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French head of state Jacques Chirac was bugged by French companies during his recent visit to Maputo, with some wanting [...]
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The new round of talks on the tariffs to be used for South Africa in the electricity supplied from the [...]
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A small Djibouti company wants to make it into the big time - betting on French horse races. Privately-owned PMU [...]
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The statistics of Ugandan external trade which accompanied the budget project for the fiscal year 1998-1999 (commencing July first) elaborated [...]
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Offshore oil and gas exploration is going boom in the night, and day, in South Africa. State-owned regulator Soekor has [...]
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Malaysia, already present in exploration for petroleum in Sudan via its national company Petronas, is to reinforce cooperation with the [...]
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Following its stay in Antananarivo in June, the mission of the International Monetary Fund led by Ms. Lelde Schmitz (ION [...]
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The Reunion Island group Sucreries de Bourbon owned by Jacques [...]
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Following Paribas' mandate from the World Bank to help the [...]
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US Information Agency's International Broadcasting Bureau (USIA IBB) has issued [...]
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The 1998-1999 sugar harvest begun on June 29 is expected [...]
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It is a doctor, Dr. Ange Andrianarisoa, who succeeds Reverend Richard Andriamanjato as Speaker of Parliament. Andrianarisoa, 55, studied medicine [...]
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The former number two in the US embassy on Madagascar, Howard Perlow, left Antananarivo last week to join the US [...]
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A new Kenyan ambassador to Sweden has just been designated to replace Idha Salim, who has retired. It is Michael [...]
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Deputy manager of Agence Française de Développement (AFD, ex-CFD) on Reunion Island since July 1997, Ridha Hamrouni, will become from [...]
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