Fund donors and the Kenyan government patched up their quarrels and made over their relations at the World Bank's consultative group on Kenya, meeting in Paris on December 15 and 16: at stake were US$800 million in fresh financial commitments [.
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A new princely being has been seen with Madagascar's important people: Michel Ipanema De Moreira, aka De Bourbon Parma. The [...]
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The appointment on December 8 of Eduardo Mulembwe as president of Mozambique's new national assembly was contested by the opposition [...]
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The recent government reshuffle that head of state Ali Hassan Mwinyi operated at the beginning of December (ION N° 650) [...]
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Youngest woman in the African National Congress management team, Cheryl Carolus was elected ANC's deputy secretary general at its December [...]
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Head of state Joaquim Chissano named former foreign minister Pascoal Mocumbi as the country's new prime minister on December 16 [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Djibouti's interior minister Idriss Harbi Farah and the Front pour la [...]
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Travelling through Africa at the head of a high level delegation from the US State Department, US Defence Department, and [...]
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The head of Somali High Seas Fishing Company (SHIFCO), Mugne Said Omar, invited Boqor (king) Abdulahi Musse (aka King Kong, [...]
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The affair of Jean Michel Pouchele, a young French volunteer worker jailed for eight months in Djibouti on charges of [...]
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The adoption by the Tanzanian parliament sitting at Dodoma on December 2 of a constitutional amendment (186 votes in favour, [...]
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A bye-election has been set for January 29 for the two seats left vacant by the simultaneous resignation from parliament [...]
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The United States is to send a task force of [...]
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Schoolteachers and hospital staff went into their fourth month of [...]
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South Africa's largest investment project in eastern Europe since head of state Nelson Mandela took over the reins of power [...]
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The International Development Association, a World Bank subsidiary, is expected to approve a loan of US$25.35 million this week to [...]
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Fund donors who met in Paris on December 19 and 20 for the World Bank's first consultative group meeting on [...]
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Two freighters chartered by Flamco Madagascar have been tied up at quay in Toamasina, on Madagascar's eastern coastline, for nearly [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Paris Club officials are intrigued by talks going on over the [...]
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France's Fonds d'Aide et de Coopération (FAC), which comes under the cooperation ministry, agreed a financial package in November worth [...]
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The management committee of France's Fonds d'Aide et de Coopération (FAC), part of the cooperation ministry, has approved finance packages [...]
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The Malagasy authorities called meetings of wholesale buyers of Malagasy [...]
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Following the agreement signed last year to set up African [...]
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The national airlines Eritrean Airlines and Ethiopian Airlines decided last [...]
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Allied Motor Distributors (a joint venture between Astra and Payne [...]
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A conference of Arab and Comoros businessmen scheduled to be [...]
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The leader of ZANU-Ndonga (opposition) won easily in the bye-election [...]
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Iran's ambassador to Kenya, Hamid Moayyer, has announced that his [...]
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The head of the French foreign ministry's Africa Desk wants [...]
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Following the Leader in The Indian Ocean Newsletter of November [...]
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