Despite several assaults against Eritrean positions since February 6 in the disputed border region of Badme, Ethiopian troops had failed by mid-week to recapture the strip of territory which the government in Addis Ababa claims and which has been held [.
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Sudan Telecommunications Company (Sudatel), a joint venture between the government (with 26 percent), local businessmen (25 percent) and foreigners (49 [...]
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US Congress adoption of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act, which suspends quotas and taxes on textile imports from Africa, [...]
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The commercial service of the US embassy organized a round table for South African tourism professionals in Cape Town on [...]
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The Comoros Islands' political infighting (See "Breather for Djoussouf" below) has somewhat unsettled the little world of French diplomats in [...]
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With the departure of acting president Tadjiddin Ben Said Massunde to attend the funeral of king Hussein ibn Talal in [...]
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After the forced resignation of Ramesh Vassen, a lawyer accused of embezzlement who had been designated as a South African [...]
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The Madagascar authorities received two offers on January 29 to take over Banque Nationale pour le Développement Rural (BTM). One [...]
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A project to relocate the city's international airport is resurfacing as prospects for privatizing the port of Durban recede after [...]
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A French parastatal, CIDEV, which fought to a last-minute win for a demining contract in Mozambique financed by a credit [...]
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Seychelles International Business Authority has given notice that it will suspend some eight hundred international companies which have registered in [...]
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Madagascar's ministry for advanced learning has a new secretary general in the person of François Rajaoson. A sociologist by training [...]
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Former minister in the government prior to the accession of [...]
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An administrative court in Harare this week handed down judgement [...]
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The US vice president will be in the Republic of [...]
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The executive chairman of German group Siemens carried out a [...]
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Western embassies in Nairobi represented on their Donors Democratic Development Group (formed at the time of the December 1997) last [...]
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Tanzania's agriculture ministry has refused to authorize Tanzania Investment Group Inc. to trade in organic fertilizer imported from the United [...]
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The president of Puntland, the autonomous region in north-west Somalia, colonel Abdullahi Yussuf passed in review at the beginning of [...]
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Chef de cabinet since 1977 for his uncle, Djibouti head of state Hassan Gouled Aptidon, Ismail Omar Gelleh is henceforth [...]
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A new round of preparatory talks before the scheduled referendum on the constitutional future of the French overseas territory of [...]
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The Kenyan industrial development minister is to make an industrial [...]
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The parastatal Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur (CFCE) is to [...]
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Ugandan head of state Yoweri Museveni's son recently abandoned his [...]
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Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Ismail Osman has informed the French [...]
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The Ugandan government has drawn up a priority list for [...]
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The mediation that French ex-prime minister Michel Rocard, chairman of European Parliament's committee for development and cooperation, is undertaking on [...]
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Seven countries (Bangladesh, Egypt, France, Iran, Pakistan, Senegal, Thailand) are applying for full membership of Indian Ocean Rim Association for [...]
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The Ugandan army general staff is embarrassed over how to arrange the funeral of an army officer who died three [...]
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Daalo Airlines, which recently transported arms to Somalia (ION 842), [...]
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Delphis Bank owned by Kenyan businessman Ketan Somaia has filed [...]
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In the name of the general directorate of Aquamen Entreprise [...]
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