The Ethiopian army's spectacular two-week blitzkrieg against strongly entrenched Eritrean positions pushed the northern rival back and gave Ethiopia a military advantage it had not had since the border dispute began in May 1998. Mortified by the affront, Eritrean head [.
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Contrary to official denials, discreet negotiations have been going on between transport minister Tomas Salomao and RENAMO (opposition) MP Raul [...]
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Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (PTC), which holds a monopoly on fixed-line communications under Zimbabwe's Telecommunications Act, is likely to be [...]
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The recent confirmation on appeal of the sentence on BNI-Credit Lyonnais in Antananarivo (ION 901) not only jogged a French [...]
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The parastatal France Telecom seems best placed to become the strategic partner of Mauritius Telecom (MT) with 40 percent of [...]
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The eldest sister of Hydrauma SA chairman and MD (and vice chairman of Syndicat des Industries de Madagascar, SIM) Raharijaona [...]
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Twelve months after the Comoros president, colonel Assumani Azzali, took power, there's no lack of plans for the archipelago's political [...]
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Although the political situation in Zimbabwe has produced a split of opinion between Black and White communities in neighbouring Republic [...]
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The former adviser to Tomas Salomao when he was finance [...]
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A man from northern Madagascar (like his supervisory minister Horace [...]
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Badly catered for in the 2000-2001 budget (ION 896), South [...]
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The parastatal Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur (CFCE) is to [...]
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In a fax to The Indian Ocean Newsletter dated May [...]
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An international conference on town planning called 'Urban Futures 2000' [...]
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The Ethiopian army's capture of Barentu, in Eritrea, and part of that country's south-western region since last week has brought [...]
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Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) has submitted its defence before the International Chamber of Commerce's International Court of Arbitration, in [...]
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Following the dismissal of Kipserem Maritim as editor in chief of the public Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), the corporation’s PRO [...]
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The Midroc Ethiopia group owned by Ethiopia-based Saudi-born magnate Mohamed Hussein Al Amoudi — Uncle Al as his American employees [...]
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Over the past two months, Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF, Ugandan army) has been on a massive military shopping spree [...]
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A pioneer veterinarian who was vice chancellor of Egerton University for eight years was named last week permanent secretary of [...]
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Kenya’s present ambassador to the Czech Republic, The Netherlands and Slovakia has been named as the new ambassador to the [...]
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Taking advantage of the drought handicapping dairy production in Kenya, Tanzania's New Northern Creameries (NNC) has set off to conquer [...]
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The drop in world gold prices coupled with the fact the metal cannot be sold directly for foreign currency has [...]
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Djibouti Telecom has issued a Call for bids to in stall and inaugurate a turnkey cellular telephone contract to GSM [...]
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Whilst Uganda is to shut down eight embassies (including Nigeria in Africa) for financial reasons and on the other hand [...]
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Under pressure from US Congress, the Democratic-led US Administration seems to be wending its way towards a series of bilateral [...]
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Apart from almost the whole of US president Bill Clinton's cabinet, many American businessmen and lobbyists were on the 350-name [...]
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Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company (LAFICO) has set up an [...]
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Portugal Telecom (PT) group, which is already a joint shareholder [...]
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After getting a licence at end-1999 to operate to several [...]
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