This month's lightning strike on the Comoros Islands by mercenaries headed by Bob Denard has sparked feverish activity within France's various secret service agencies. Teams from Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE), Direction de la Protection du Secret Défense [.
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Seychelles minister of foreign affairs, planning and environment, Ms. Danielle De St Jorre, met French cooperation minister Jacques Godfrain in [...]
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The recently formed Comoros government has adopted an emergency programme with three priorities: pay civil servants' salaries (already five months [...]
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Italy's deputy foreign minister Emanuele Scammaca Del Murgo wound up a three-day visit to Ethiopia (October 12-14) by signing two [...]
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Signature of the letter of intention by International Monetary Fund and the Djibouti authorities, due last week, has been cancelled [...]
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The International Development Association, the World Bank subsidiary, is expected to sign a loan agreement with Uganda next month covering [...]
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The delegation of White South African farmers which went to Mozambique's Niassa Province in August to reconnoitre arable land has [...]
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Caisse Française de Développement has some FFr.240 million low-interest loans in the pipeline for Ethiopia. Preliminary discussions with the Ethiopian [...]
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The European Union expects to allocate ECU 27 million (close on US$35.5 million) on rehabilitating health sector infrastructures in Zambezia [...]
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The national airline Air Seychelles is currently negotiating a charter [...]
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The British contractor Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick, which specializes in studies [...]
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The Mozambican government has to decide by the end of [...]
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By decree dated October 9, head of state Hassan Gouled reorganized his staff into an administrative bureau, a civilian cabinet, [...]
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The thirty-four mercenaries who followed Bob Denard in his latest coup d'état venture on the Comoros Islands (ION N° 688) [...]
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Rear admiral Alain Béreau, newly-appointed French naval commander in the Indian Ocean maritime zone (ION N° 683), is scheduled to [...]
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One week after having been officially adopted on October 8, Uganda's squeaky-new constitution was severely slammed by foreign diplomats in [...]
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Hard on the heels of the death of the highly respected finance minister Ariston Chambati, Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries chairman [...]
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The decision by RENAMO (opposition) leader Afonso Dhlakama to shift his permanent headquarters from Maputo to Quelimane, in central Mozambique [...]
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Gaetan Duval, the former Mauritian minister and ex-leader of Parti Mauricien Social Démocrate, recently said he would set up a [...]
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An extraordinary council of ministers of the Comoros transition government meeting on October 13 voted unanimously against the head of [...]
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The commission of Roman Catholic bishops for dialogue with Mozambique's [...]
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The complaint filed by Ethiopia with the secretary general of [...]
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During a visit to Mayotte Island on October 13, France's [...]
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The governor of the Seychelles Central Bank, Norman Weber, who is also principal secretary of the finance ministry, will now [...]
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Head of state Albert Zafy finally left Madagascar on October 19 for New York to attend the 50th anniversary of [...]
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South African home affairs minister (and leader of the Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party) is believed to be having some difficulty [...]
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Egypt's new ambassador to Ethiopia Mohamed Assem Ibrahim has presented his Letters of Credence to head of state Gidada Negasso. [...]
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The mandate of the senior judge of the Mauritius supreme [...]
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French businessman Jean Yves Ollivier has finally made it to [...]
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The trial on charges of treason of Somaliland's first president, [...]
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French mercenary Bob Denard took advantage of holding the head [...]
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Kenya's ambassador to Sweden was called to the Swedish foreign [...]
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