Madagascar's May 17 general election confirms the country's amazing political struggle but should also produce a government majority in the national assembly. A question-mark remains necessary because final results will not be proclaimed until the month of June.
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For just over a month, a large foreign labour force has been built up in the petroleum-rich region of Bentiu, [...]
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The International Monetary Fund management committee meeting which was due to debate a possible loan of US$176 million for Zimbabwe [...]
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Mauritius Marine Authority (MMA) is in the eye of a storm over anonymous accusations of corruption coming, probably, from its [...]
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The EDF committee grouping the fifteen member-states of the European Union has just given its approval to the project (85 [...]
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Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and its subsidiary for private sector loans Proparco are to authorize nearly FFr.300 million in [...]
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The new Land Bill that the Ugandan government would like to see adopted by Parliament in July is encountering convergent [...]
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Texas-based US company America Mineral Fields (AMF) this week signed an agreement with Australian firm Madagascar Resources NL (MRNL) under [...]
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During his official visit to Kampala this week, Kenyan head of state Daniel arap Moi launched the idea of handing [...]
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Millionaire British businessman (and former head of the Lonrho group) [...]
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The government of People's Republic of China has made Mauritius [...]
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The 148 billion Tanzanian shillings (US$220 million) raised by privatizing [...]
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The Export Credit Guarantee Department has extended its insurance cover [...]
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During his recent official visit to Addis Ababa (ION N° [...]
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Siemens Atea, Belgian subsidiary of the German group Siemens, has [...]
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High tension remained the norm this week along the Eritrean-Ethiopian frontier with reports from several points of Eritrean troop concentrations. [...]
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The mediation by Djibouti head of state Hassan Gouled Aptidon in the name of InterGovernmental Authority on Development and by [...]
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Somaliland president Mohamed Ibrahim Egal used a recent discussion with local journalists to outline his views on the current situation [...]
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Head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim on May 19 called a grand gathering of his full government in Moroni, [...]
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Tanzania's foreign ministry is swamped under files of ambassadors who are well past retiring age but are still clinging fiercely [...]
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Zanzibar president Salmin Amour is believed to want to tinker with the island constitution to allow him to stand for [...]
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The question of the senior management of Portugal's state-owned Hidroelétrica de Cabora Bassa (HCB), which runs the hydroelectric barrage of [...]
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Head of state Yoweri Museveni proceeded on May 15 with his most ambitious ministerial changes since 1994, chopping the number [...]
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The president of Somaliland fired minister of commerce Mohamed Qasim [...]
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Kenyan police arrested a Pakistani businessman in Nairobi last week [...]
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Mayotte Island's UDF MP (and leader of Mouvement Populaire Mahorais) [...]
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A presidential commission of twelve experts which has been running [...]
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Using the port of Djibouti for all Ethiopia's imports of [...]
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The People's Republic of China's new ambassador to Tanzania, Huang Guifang, is a career diplomat. Born in Fujian Province in [...]
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The new mayor of Kampala is the first of the sixteen dignitaries who have held this office to be elected [...]
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The widow of the late Mozambican president Samora Machel has been appointed as the African member of the board of [...]
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The People's Republic of China's new ambassador to Madagascar, Ma Zhixue, is not on unknown territory. He had earlier been [...]
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