The presidential election scheduled for March 16 and 17 continues to come closer with little or no major immediate stake since incumbent head of state Robert Mugabe, who is standing for another five-year term, seems the sure horse to back [.
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The European Parliament's fisheries commission vote to renew the fishery agreement between the European Union and Madagascar (ION N° 704) [...]
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A minor revolution has just taken place in South Africa's National Party headed by executive deputy president Frederik W. De [...]
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In his annual State of the Nation speech to parliament on February 14, head of state France Albert René spoke [...]
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Heads of state Joaquim Chissano and Nelson Mandela will sign an agreement in the next few weeks to facilitate the [...]
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After the mission that a delegation of businessmen led by Conseil National du Patronat Français will make in the Republic [...]
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A minor revolution has just taken place in South Africa's National Party headed by executive deputy president Frederik W. De [...]
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Head of state Albert Zafy, who was this week presiding (for the first time since the referendum of September 17 [...]
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The prime minister of South Africa's Gauteng Province, Mosima Tokyo Sexwale, arrived in Washington on February 6 for a visit [...]
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Britain's Deputy High Commissioner to Zimbabwe (since April 1992) Robert Scott Dewar has been appointed ambassador to Madagascar, taking over [...]
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The director for Sub-Sahara Africa of French state-owned utility Electricité [...]
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The US Department of Agriculture has added an additional 400,000 [...]
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The South African head of state will make his first [...]
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As part of the French banking group Credit Lyonnais's restructuring [...]
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The Comoros Islands and the Seychelles are two of the [...]
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Pinned down by European Union commitments to introduce entry visas on April 4 for nationals of 98 countries, Great Britain [...]
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The flood of refugees pouring into Tanzania from neighbouring countries has become a sensitive political problem because of the implications [...]
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The Port Autonome International de Djibouti has adopted new tariffs for port services and taxes in a bid to simplify [...]
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The Kenyan government has picked Robert Brenneisen, a Swiss national who was chairman of Bamburi Cement Company in Mombasa and [...]
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Eyewitness reports recently concurred that there had been fighting in two towns close to the Sudanese frontier, Kurmuk and Queissan [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from Ugandan military sources, surplus military material from United Nations operations [...]
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After having refused for two months even to acknowledge requests to meet representatives of the European Union in Nairobi (ION [...]
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European Union special envoy in Somalia Sigurd Illing went to Somaliland this week to inform president Ibrahim Egal that the [...]
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Tanzanian vice president Omar Ali Juma claimed on February 8 that political reconciliation would not be possible in Zanzibar for [...]
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As Sudanese head of state general Omar Al Bechir tries to tighten his country's eastern frontiers and has just signed [...]
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The mutiny by inmates of Gabode prison, in Djibouti Town, on February 3 which resulted in two deaths and twenty-nine [...]
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Following the United States' refusal to accept the nomination as Sudanese ambassador of brigadier Al Fateh Orawa (ION N° 555), [...]
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Britain plans to celebrate the centenary of its embassy's presence [...]
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South African mining group JCI announced on February 12 that [...]
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The general commanding US forces (South-East Asia and East Africa) [...]
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During his visit to Djibouti last month, French defence minister [...]
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The Ugandan government is preparing another new plan restructuring public [...]
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