Elections for Ethiopia's constituent assembly, scheduled for June 5, are approaching fast, but public safety and political stability are still far from firmly established in several parts of the country. Much more than the tub-thumping of former president Mengistu Haile [.
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The managing committee of France's Fonds d'Aide et de Coopération (aid and cooperation fund) agreed on February 10 to make [...]
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Farmers in the region of Espungabera-Machaze, an isolated zone in the southern part of Manica Province, have asked representatives of [...]
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The damage caused by Cyclone Hollanda, which ravaged Mauritius on February 10 killing two, making 1,400 persons homeless, and totally [...]
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The World Bank group is preparing six new loans for Ethiopia, totalling US$570 million, including a second structural adjustment credit [...]
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The International Development Association, a subsidiary of the World Bank, has put seven new projects, totalling more than US$280 million, [...]
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Officials close to the president of the national assembly, Mohamed M'Changama (the son-in-law of Comoros' head of state Said Mohamed [...]
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The World Bank's subsidiary International Development Association (IDA) is considering the award of three credit lines worth a total of [...]
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The South Korean conglomerate Daewoo Corporation is due to open [...]
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The Portuguese company Herbex is to open a trade representative's [...]
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The International Development Association is considering authorizing a credit line [...]
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The social climate, marked lately by a spate of price increases following the devaluation of the Comoros currency (ION N° [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, farm managers in the agricultural regions of Zimbabwe (mainly in Manicaland [...]
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The forthcoming election for twenty-four of the forty-seven seats on the Reunion Conseil Général, with the first round of balloting [...]
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Kenya's head of state Daniel arap Moi ordered, on February 11, an immediate halt to all cooperation between the government's [...]
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The congress of Rassemblement pour le Progrès (RPP), Djibouti's pro-government political party, which was originally scheduled to be held about [...]
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Feared by some, such as the Somali factions clustering around the acting head of state Ali Mahdi Mohamed, but desired [...]
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According to officials of international humanitarian organizations, the Sudanese army [...]
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The Ethiopian government is believed to have started official proceedings [...]
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The president of the national assembly, Mohamed M'Changama, returned to [...]
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US president Bill Clinton has appointed Willie Grace Campbell to be vice-president of the African Development Foundation (ADF). A former [...]
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The MDP-NGDC (political opposition) MP for Mutsamudu, Ahmed Fuad ben Mohamed, aka Kokignon, is still in detention in Moroni prison [...]
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Mozambique's deputy defence minister (and first secretary of the pro-government party FRELIMO in Nampula Province, in northern Mozambique) denied on [...]
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After having completed an extended tour through Europe which included Brussels, Hamburg, London, Milan, Paris, and Vienna, Madagascar's minister for [...]
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The former leader of the country's illegal opposition movement Islamic [...]
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Sudan's head of state, general Omar el-Bechir, has named general [...]
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The former chairman and managing director of the casino at [...]
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The director general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and [...]
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Italy's under secretary of state for foreign affairs was due [...]
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