Hounded by a Congress dominated by a Republican Party which favours a cutback in development aid, US president Bill Clinton's administration is putting in place an aggressive trade policy which does not spare even the small markets.
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The Popular Republic of China's new ambassador to Mauritius, Zheng Aquan, took up his new duties at the beginning of [...]
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Former Tanzanian finance minister Kighoma Malima, who has also just been fired from his post as trade and industry minister [...]
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During his visit to Madagascar in February, the chairman of the board of ILDC, Nimrodi (see When Ravony fingers Zafy [...]
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US president Bill Clinton on June 15 announced the name of career diplomat Ms. Vicki J. Huddleston, currently deputy chief [...]
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Reacting to the decision of general Mohamed Farah Aideed to proclaim himself "interim president" of Somalia and to nominate four [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, one of the sons-in-law of the head of state Said Mohamed [...]
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The political tension between head of state Albert Zafy and his prime minister Francisque Ravony, which has been brewing the [...]
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Persons suspected of having participated in the murder in Maputo at the end of March of the Mozambican painter Eugenio [...]
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Combats of unprecedented violence in the village of Kimba 6 km from Kaya, in southern Sudan, on June 2 opposed [...]
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Somaliland's president Mohamed Ibrahim Egal went to Nairobi last week to meet with the Kenyan-based European Union special envoy for [...]
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The former Zimbabwean foreign minister Nathan Shamuyarira continues to lose his influence. He had already been relieved of this important [...]
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Recent bragging by a Sudanese diplomat in Paris in front one of his compatriots living in exile in France has [...]
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Head of state Daniel arap Moi announced last week the [...]
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The constituent assembly in Kampala rejected by a large majority [...]
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South African head of state Nelson Mandela has a loaded [...]
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Another partial postponement of elections for the Ethiopian parliament and [...]
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French group Bolloré which obtained the exclusive right to operate the Mauritius freeport having abandoned at least temporarily its project [...]
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A recent poverty assessment in Kenya carried out by experts from the World Bank lays a severe judgement on the [...]
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Presenting on June 20 to the European Parliament's Development Commission the mandate for negotiations on the future cooperation agreement between [...]
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Twenty Black Zimbabwean businessmen headed by Roger Boka and Philip Chiyanga, who make up the Cone Textiles Indigenization Consortium, are [...]
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The parastatal Caisse Française de Développement approved at the beginning of June a credit line of FFr.20 million for Development [...]
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The World Bank management board approved, on June 13, two financial packages from International Development Association, its subsidiary for concessional [...]
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As The Indian Ocean Newsletter announced last week, the European Union has carried out a recent revision of its National [...]
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The European Union has given the Ugandan authorities two years to improve quality controls on their fish exports to Europe, [...]
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The Ethiopian-based delegate for Coralma, the French registered holding company [...]
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The Sudanese authorities announced this week that there would be [...]
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Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) is to [...]
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Presenting on June 19 the budget for Fiscal 1995-1996, Mauritian [...]
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The French ambassador to Djibouti, Jean Marie Momal, who has [...]
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The paleontologist and former director of the Kenya Wildlife Service [...]
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Former minister (and Parti Mauricien Social Démocrate leader) Gaetan Duval [...]
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