The International Development Association (IDA, the World Bank concessional lending affiliate) mission which went to Kampala last November to check over the Uganda Electricity Board (UEB) wrote a pretty critical report on the company's hydroelectric master plan, which is financed [.
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Eritrean opposition sources in Europe claim that about thirty Eritrean nationals were detained in several Ethiopian towns (Addis Ababa, Adigrat, [...]
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A committee of pro-government Gadabursi has been set up in Djibouti under the chairmanship of commerce minister Mohamed Barkat Abdillahi, [...]
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Mediation by the Organization of African Unity (OAU) on the Comoros Islands crisis has broken down since the failure of [...]
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One year after the signature on April 21 1997 of peace agreements between the Sudanese government and several dissident factions [...]
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Along the confines of the frontiers of Democratic Republic of Congo (ex-Zaire), Sudan and Uganda, members of Sudan People's Liberation [...]
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Democratic Party (DP) chairman and Leader of the Opposition Mwai Kibaki presented the nineteen names of his party's shadow cabinet [...]
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A mission of the Development Committee of the European Parliament led by its chairman, former French premier minister Michel Rocard, [...]
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The trouble between the Tanzanian interior ministry and foreign executives of the cellular telephone company Mobitel worsened at the beginning [...]
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As the general manager of Toamasina port (and former minister [...]
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The former chairman of Reunion Island regional assembly (and ex-minister [...]
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Prefect (senior civil servant) François Bonnelle, who since September 30 [...]
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A mission of European Parliamentarians is due to go to [...]
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According to Egyptian foreign ministry sources, the rapprochement the Cairo [...]
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The situation has considerably deteriorated in Mombasa port where delays in ships coming alongside and unloading and completing administrative and [...]
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The Ugandan government last month authorized Uganda Airlines Corporation (UAC) to sell its 45-percent holding in Entebbe Handling Services Limited [...]
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Management of Victory Mining of Madagascar has reacted to an article in The Indian Ocean Newsletter entitled "Vancouver stock hits" [...]
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Tanzania's Prevention of Corruption Bureau (PCB) has launched an investigation into several public organisms, including Parastatal Provident Fund (PPF), and [...]
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State-owned utility TANESCO and the Tanzanian government are on the spot: how to get out of the electricity contract they [...]
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Conseil International et Développement (CIDEV), a subsidiary of the French parastatal COFRAS ) has got off to a very bad [...]
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The Portuguese company Solverde, which already owns four gaming establishments in Portugal, has become a partner in the project to [...]
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Mauritius Telecom and Telkom South Africa have not exactly concluded a joint venture agreement yet but they're getting on like [...]
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International Finance Corporation (IFC, a subsidiary of the World Bank) [...]
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Nine foreign companies, of which three in partnership with Mauritian [...]
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Britain's Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) has no time for questions [...]
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The board of Chemin de Fer Djibouto-Ethiopien (CDE) held in [...]
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It is a man of experience, in particular in the domain of security, that US president Bill Clinton has nominated [...]
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The new chairman of African National Congress in Cape Province (a function he takes over from minister of justice and [...]
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The Mozambican government has reacted badly to a proposal put forward by Almeida Santos, Speaker of Portugal's Parliament, to replace [...]
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The former commandant of the Comoros Islands gendarmerie and head of the utility Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures Mahamoud Mradabi has [...]
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