After all the euphoria of the referendum on self-determination last April, now-independent Eritrea is running into its first difficulties: a cereals harvest which looks like being very much lower than last year and international aid which is flowing only very [.
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Portugal's military advisers in Mozambique are expected to begin training a group of ninety military personnel this week, with one-half [...]
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The split within Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM), a government partner with Mouvement Socialiste Mauricien (MSM) of prime minister Anerood Jugnauth, [...]
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Decentralisation is one of the central elements of the new Madagascar government's political and economic philosophy. Their thinking has been [...]
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On his return last week from the conference of French-speaking countries held on Mauritius and a subsequent visit to South [...]
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During his visit to Maputo (November 5 to 8, see ION N° 594) to chair the joint Franco-Mozambique cooperation committee, [...]
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The mayor and general councillor (Indep. Right) of St Marie has been charged and placed under juridical supervision by the [...]
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A Groupement de Pêcheurs Mohéliens (GPM) is considering buying, or more probably chartering, the refrigerated ship owned by the Seychelles [...]
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The Roman Catholic archbishop of Beira, the Reverend Jaime Gonçalves, says he is again the target of attempts by the [...]
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About half a dozen French clothing manufacturers, including several leading companies, are currently studying the possibility of setting up a [...]
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Addressing a recent meeting of Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce [...]
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The two forthcoming meetings of African Development Bank board of [...]
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If Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) is to complete its [...]
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The United Nations special representative in Mozambique, Aldo Ajello, was [...]
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Zimbabwe's finance minister, who is 66, was hospitalised for several [...]
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The national chairman of African National Congress (ANC) said in [...]
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The proposition to send a European parliamentary mission to Ethiopia (ION N° 594) is the subject of a substantial difference [...]
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The leaders of Sudanese Peoples' Liberation Army (SPLA), colonel John Garang, and of its dissident faction Sudanese Peoples' Liberation Army [...]
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Tanzania's weekly Bara Afrika quotes sources within the police, the penal service and the Field Force Unit which claimed that [...]
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Although France's Military Intelligence Directorate (DRM) was only set up in May 1992, its boss (and founder), general Jean Heinrich, [...]
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After several hours of tumultuous debate, sixty-six opposition MPs were ejected from Parliament on October 26. They had been threatening [...]
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The chairman of Association pour la Défense des Droits de l'Homme et des Libertés (ADDHL), who was arrested on September [...]
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Fighting broke out again in Mogadiscio on October 25 between Somali National Alliance (SNA) headed by general Mohamed Farah Aideed [...]
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The International Monetary Fund mission which has been in Kenya is due to leave at the end of the week [...]
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The US State Department announced on October 26 the appointment of Richard Begosian to replace Robert Gosende, who has been [...]
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The Eritrean government has issued a Call for bids for [...]
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Yemen's foreign minister was briefly in Djibouti this week, to [...]
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The ruling group in Asmara, Eritrean Peoples' Liberation Front (EPLF), [...]
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Germany's defence minister said on October 26 that he thought [...]
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