After several weeks of political haggling during which some 120 potential candidates for ministerial posts were interviewed, Madagascar's prime minister Francisque Ravony finally presented on August 19 the second litter of his first legislature. Made up of twenty-four ministers (including [.
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The vast majority of Mozambican refugees will not have a chance to cast a vote in their country's general elections [...]
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According to the Reunion magazine Via Océan Indien, the chairman of the Rassemblement pour la République (one political party in [...]
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All signals seem to indicate that some officials of the FRELIMO government are playing off ethnic opposition between the Ndau [...]
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Representatives of the United Nations were expelled from Somaliland last week after the authorities of the self-declared republic accused them [...]
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Originally scheduled for June 20 at Gardo in north-east Somalia, some 250 km south of Bosaso on the Gulf of [...]
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Ethiopian head of state Meles Zenawi returned to Addis Ababa on August 17 following a six-day official visit to the [...]
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Doctors in Kenya's public health service announced on August 21 [...]
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A statement published on August 12 by the opposition movement [...]
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According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, the [...]
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The Zimbabwean firm Mine-Tech has won a United Nations-financed contract to set up a school in Somalia to train de-miners. [...]
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Financial results for Year 1993 of Banque Nationale de Paris Intercontinentale and its subsidiaries in the Indian Ocean region bring [...]
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A meeting of the Western Indian Ocean Tuna Organization was held in Mahe last week with the participation of fisheries [...]
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Ethiopian minister for mining and energy Izedin Ali and William C. Athens, who is chairman of an American oil company's [...]
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Eritrea's national assembly on August 23 passed a long-awaited package of laws governing investment, land tenure, monetary and fiscal policy, [...]
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Lawyers for the British-owned airline TAT have terminated the two-year rental contract for a Fokker 50 signed by Air Comores [...]
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The question of revising the country's investment code has been [...]
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Mauritius Export Development and Investment Authority (MEDIA) is to organize [...]
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The Seychelles central bank recently announced that it had paid [...]
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The French hi-tech firm Spot Image and the Council for [...]
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Head of state Daniel arap Moi, finance minister Musalia Mudavadi, [...]
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Following a Call for bids which brought in tenders from [...]
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Recently received by Djibouti's prime minister Barkat Gourad Hamadou, the new head of the French mission for cooperation and cultural [...]
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A Comoros citizen who holds French nationality and has lived in France since The Comoros became independent, on August 22 [...]
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The former head of the Organization of African Unity's Brussels bureau Uganda's Emmanuel Gasana has just been replaced by Zaire's [...]
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As The Indian Ocean Newsletter reported earlier (ION N° 631), the Republic of South Africa has accepted the appointment of [...]
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Sudan's foreign minister officially opened his country's first embassy in [...]
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Head of state France Albert René has appointed Antonio Emmanuel [...]
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Head of state Albert Zafy is expected to arrive on [...]
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Zimbabwean head of state Robert Mugabe made an official visit [...]
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The British prime minister is expected to visit the Republic [...]
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