Djibouti head of state Hassan Gouled Aptidon met his French opposite number Jacques Chirac and prime minister Lionel Jospin in Paris this week (October 23 and 27 respectively) in a bid to unlock his country's tangled financial logjam.
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A member of the ruling Labour Party executive committee, Subash Jeepaul, has been designated as chairman of the state-owned Central [...]
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The current professor of sociology at Addis Ababa University, Andargachew Tesfaye, has been appointed chairman of Ethiopian Human Rights Council [...]
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A new secretary general of Port Management Association of Eastern and Southern Africa (PMAESA) has been designated to take over [...]
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RENAMO (opposition) head Afonso Dhlakama recently indicated he was ready to act as a mediator in the conflicts in Angola [...]
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United Nations under secretary general for political affairs Kieran Prendergast is due to go to East Africa from November 9 [...]
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The expulsion of more than 30,000 Eritrean nationals from Ethiopia since the start of the border dispute between the neighbouring [...]
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Following the recent death of lieutenant colonel Jet Mwebaze, lieutenant colonel Jackson Bell has been appointed to command the Uganda [...]
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No Kenyan MP spoke up against an idea of submitting to Parliament a bill granting head of state Daniel arap [...]
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The Djibouti government introduced a series of measures on October 22 intended to combat illegal immigration. The official objective is [...]
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As director general of Mauritius Ports Authority, Gilbert Philippe is ill at ease since the nomination on October 25 of [...]
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The exact date of the vote is not fixed yet but strategies are already being worked out for the provincial [...]
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After the recent installation of an autonomous civilian administration for Puntland, in north-eastern Somalia, Mohamed Said Hersi (aka Morgan), who [...]
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The US assistant secretary of state for African affairs began [...]
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South African trade and industry minister Alec Erwin is to [...]
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As expected (ION 822), head of state Jacques Chirac signed [...]
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According to certain information, various problems have been encountered by [...]
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The mayor (and Socialist Party MP) of St Denis De [...]
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After the affair of the business-class airline tickets Japan offered [...]
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Ethiopia's oldest brewery, St George's in Addis Ababa, is due to pass into the hands of its new owners, the [...]
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The current parliamentary debate on the French finance law for 1999 implicating the budget of overseas departments and territories, several [...]
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After 30 months of tough bargaining, Zimbabwe signed a Letter of Agreement on Oct. 15 for the sale of 51 [...]
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is putting on a spurt in Ethiopia: after having approved a new enhanced structural adjustment [...]
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Contrary to other international fund donors, the World Bank has always managed without great difficulty to get its loans repaid [...]
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The Seychelles' rupee has just been sharply devalued against the currencies of five industrialized countries (France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, [...]
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From the beginning of 1999, the European Union will implement a three-year programme to support South Africa's National Development Agency. [...]
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A Dar es Salaam businessman, Madatali Gulamhussein Saleh, is under investigation by the Prevention of Corruption Bureau for fraud against [...]
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Long delayed by suspensive terms, a first tranche of FFr.19 [...]
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The Tanzanian government has just granted a licence to African [...]
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Mauritius Commercial Bank is to open a branch in Maputo [...]
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A go-between recently went to Moroni to negotiate with the [...]
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A company founded in 1996 and based in South Africa, [...]
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Cervejas de Moçambique, in which South African giant group South [...]
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After one British firm, Stagecoach International, sold its holdings in [...]
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