Hijacking fishing boats and then demanding a stiff ransom from the shipowners has developed into a thriving trade off the Somali coast, and one group of Mejertein pirates are believed to have raked in nearly US$2 million that way in [.
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The director of a higher educational establishment in Cape Town, Franklin Sonn, has been appointed South African ambassador to the [...]
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The nomination of Carl Burton Stokes as United States ambassador to The Seychelles (ION N° 624) was confirmed by the [...]
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Senior Comoros citizens recently applied to the Mauritius authorities in order to obtain official information on the present managing director [...]
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Zimbabwe's former ambassador to Belgium (a post which includes the country's representation to the European Union and Benelux), Andrew Hama [...]
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The 78th General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) course on trade policies commenced in Geneva on August 29 and [...]
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The African Development Bank (ADB) group authorized a credit line of UC15 million (US$21.7 million) at the end of August [...]
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In a long report on the water supply, drainage and sewerage sector in Africa issued on August 12, the United [...]
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Governmental representatives of three East African countries (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) met in Nairobi last week to hammer out the working [...]
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A handwritten letter dated September 6 from C. Lauvernier, the special representative in Moroni of the Bureau Veritas Indian Ocean [...]
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As planned (ION N° 635), when the Italian ambassador in Dar es Salaam, Cordilli Torquato, made an official visit to [...]
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With a new list of port charges due to come into effect in Mombasa in January 1995, Kenya Ports Authority [...]
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Several French sources confirmed for The Indian Ocean Newsletter this week a report in Zimbabwe's Sunday Gazette that the country's [...]
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Jean Dominique Deschamps, deputy managing director of Compagnie Générale des [...]
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Flamco International, a company headed by prince Constantin Von Liechtenstein, [...]
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The visit to Moscow this week of South African foreign minister Alfred Nzo is the first by a highly-placed South [...]
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Invited to attend the peace conference held in Assisi, Italy, last week under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Community [...]
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Secret peace talks between delegations of the Djibouti government and the opposition movement Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et [...]
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Feelings of insecurity have sharpened in northern Uganda following an attack on a lorry on August 27, which was destroyed [...]
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French prime minister Edouard Balladur is expected to go to Reunion Island and Mayotte very shortly, accompanied by France's overseas [...]
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Although the visit of former US president Jimmy Carter to Addis Ababa last week was officially meant to boost an [...]
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The breakdown of peace talks in Nairobi at the beginning of September has underlined a toughening stand by Khartoum against [...]
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According to unconfirmed reports, government forces operating in Kembata Province [...]
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The strike called by public sector trade unions on September [...]
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A presidential decree signed by the head of state Albert [...]
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The journalist with RFO (the French radio-tv service for overseas [...]
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The head of the United Nations department for peacekeeping operations [...]
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At the issue of a meeting of Mozambique's council of [...]
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