This week's visit to Addis Ababa by Germany's head of state Roman Herzog and his finance minister cast a dampener over an official visitor in Paris, Ethiopia's prime minister Meles Zenawi (who was accompanied by his foreign minister Seyoum Mesfin).
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At a time when a joint delegation of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund was in Nairobi, notably to [...]
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According to information from Western European intelligence sources, armed attacks launched from Humera, in Ethiopia's northern region, in the region [...]
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In the framework of a diplomatic reshuffling revealed by the independent weekly The Monitor on January 17, Edward Rugumayo is [...]
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Tanzania's new head of state Benjamin Mkapa last week appointed former prime minister Joseph Sinde Warioba to chair a commission [...]
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The trade counsellor of the French embassy in Addis Ababa recently welcomed the success of French companies in Ethiopia where [...]
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Good accounts do not always mean good friends, if the latest episode in Franco-Djibouti relations proves anything. Djibouti's finance ministry [...]
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New appointments of ambassadors which the Ugandan government is considering include general Sam Nanyumba as ambassador to Rwanda. He is [...]
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A debate is expected shortly among European Union member-states on the possibility of sending observers to Sudan's presidential and general [...]
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Prince Joachim of Denmark and his wife princess Alexandra will [...]
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During a recent meeting, the Franco-Djibouti friendship group of the [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from [...]
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Denmark's aid to Uganda will amount to DKR.250 million (about [...]
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At a gala reception held in the Sudanese embassy in [...]
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Commercial Bank of Ethiopia has frozen the current account (number [...]
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Amiga, the humanitarian organization which has links with RENAMO (opposition), is beginning plans for a conference on the Portuguese language [...]
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Several government services (customs, justice, etc) on Reunion Island have alerted TRACFIN, France's centralized financial-fiddle watchdog (part of the finance [...]
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Until lately fairly well spared from the political infighting within the presidential supporters and the government of prime minister Emmanuel [...]
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At the end of two days of discussions in Antananarivo under the guidance of Malagasy head of state Albert Zafy [...]
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The European Union general affairs committee will be calling in member-states' foreign ministers on January 29 to come up with [...]
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Four new credit lines have been put into the World Bank pipeline, respectively for Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. With [...]
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United States Agency for International Development announced on January 24 that it was suspending all financing of commercial food aid [...]
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Two years after the devaluation by 33 percent of the Comoros franc, in January 1994, an agreement to write off [...]
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The Comoros Islands has named its former permanent representative to the United Nations (since August 1993), a meteorological graduate (St [...]
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Although Zimbabwe's presidential election looms only a few weeks away, on March 16 and 17, the country seems to be [...]
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The Seychelles' controversial Economic Development Act, which grants legal immunity to investors who bring in US$10 million (ION N° 702), [...]
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Mozambique's new ambassador to France will be taking up his duties in Paris shortly. Jose Rui Mota Do Amaral was [...]
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A one-day meeting on social equality and development in France's [...]
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In fourth quarter 1995, the European Investment Bank granted loans [...]
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The head of Development Bank of Seychelles, Gaffoor Yakub, should [...]
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