Tension increased recently along the Sudano-Ugandan frontier where Sudan People's Liberation Army headed by colonel John Garang is expected to resume military operations, with logistical support from the United States (via the Central Intelligence Agency which has now got a [.
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The Danish government recently rowed back on its declared intention of including Ethiopia among African countries (Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Ghana, [...]
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The proposal of French mediator Francis Gutman for arbitrating the diplomatic row over the Hanish Archipelago in the Red Sea [...]
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The Kenyan government is within an inch of reaching agreement with the International Monetary Fund on an enhanced structural adjustment [...]
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Following the adoption of the United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Sudan (ION N° 704), that country plans to redouble [...]
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Plans by Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, the government coalition with a hard core of Tigrean nationalists, to celebrate on [...]
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In a confidential report which The Indian Ocean Newsletter has obtained, former Belgian mercenary Christian Tavernier and a man named [...]
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Britain's High Commissioner to Kenya, Edward Clay, has again criticized the continued delay in defining electoral regulations (ION N° 690) [...]
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Tanzania has appointed a qualified accountant and confirmed administrator to head the new Tanzanian Revenue Authority when it comes to [...]
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Kenya's number two man in the embassy in Paris, Peter Oloishorua Ole Nkuraiyia, has been appointed ambassador to Uganda, taking [...]
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Civic United Front (opposition) protested on February 20 about the arrest by police a few days earlier of Musa Haji [...]
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Ethiopia's head of operations in the defence ministry, Hayelom Araya, was murdered on February 14 in what are described as [...]
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Before returning to Djibouti on March 2, head of state [...]
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Kenya Airways MD announced this week that 51 percent of [...]
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The Eritrean ambassador to the Republic of South Africa has [...]
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The International Monetary Fund official in charge of the East [...]
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Ghana-based Ashanti Goldfields signed a gold prospecting agreement with Ethiopia's [...]
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Following the arrest by Madagascar's Direction Générale de l'Information et de la Documentation Intérieure et Extérieure, headed by Sidy Bertin, [...]
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Ms. Nozipho Joyce Diseko has been appointed ambassador to Austria, taking over from Jannie Roux. Ms. Diseko was born in [...]
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A group of foreign investors who have been on the Seychelles since the end of 1995 negotiating the purchase of [...]
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Unidade Technica para a Reestruturaçao de Empresas (UTRE), which is part of Mozambique's planning and finance ministry and handles the [...]
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The positions of European nations on the mandate to be given to the European Commission to negotiate the creation of [...]
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High Court Justice George Smith has issued a stern call for the creation of an anti-corruption commission and says that [...]
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In the framework of a long European tour, Mauritius' new agriculture and natural resources minister Arvin Boolell stopped off in [...]
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A Paris appeal court on February 6 confirmed a judgement of the Paris High Court of October 3 1995 which [...]
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South Africa's state-owned energy utility Eskom received five formal offers last week to take over three coal-fired electric power plants, [...]
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In the context of his tour through East Africa (Djibouti, [...]
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The finance ministry this week slapped a 25 percent cut [...]
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The German industrial engineering company Lurgi, a specialist in development [...]
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Two of the island's three daily newspapers are in dire [...]
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