South Sudan

ARLENE FERRIL

The replacement of George Frederick as US State Department official responsible for Comoros Islands, Djibouti and Somalia (ION 867) was [...]

PAUL D'ORNANO

During a commercial seminar organized jointly by the parastatal Centre [...]

IGAD WARNS CAIRO

The InterGovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) summit of heads of state and government of its member-states, held in Djibouti on [...]

FRENCH DISILLUSION

A Kampala meeting of France's East Africa-based embassy trade advisers and representatives of companies working in the region was the [...]

J. H. BINFORD PEAY

The general commanding US forces (South-East Asia and East Africa) [...]

FRANCIS GUTMANN

The former principal secretary in the French foreign ministry from 1981 to 1985, Francis Gutmann, has been entrusted with an [...]

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FRESH ISLAMIC SITUATION

Somalia is fast becoming the new rear base for Islamic fundamentalist groups which previously worked out of Sudan or Yemen. For about a year but increasingly since the failedassassination attempt against Egyptian head of state Hosni Mubarak, groups of so-called [.

VATICAN OFFENSIVE

The leader of the SPLA, colonel John Garang, has finally, after much procrastination (ION N° 672), accepted the invitation to [...]

France is expected to announce (on April 4) its policy [...]

SPECIAL IGADD SUMMIT

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from diplomatic sources in Nairobi, the Kenyan government, spurred on by [...]

MATTEO ZUPPI

A delegation of the Roman Catholic community Sant'Egidio headed by [...]

SEEING IT THEIR WAY

Once spread right across Africa, Italian cooperative assistance (except to North Africa) has been recycled in recent years into two [...]

The European Investment Bank is providing ECU 16.8 million (US$20.8 [...]

VIKTOR TCHERNOMYRDINE

Speaking in Moscow on July 12 to Russian ambassadors holding [...]

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THE STATESIDE VIEW

The Horn of Africa is, with southern Africa, one of the regions on the African continent where the United States is still trying to maintain follow-through in its interventions. A tough order, as Washington no longer has a coherent, long-term [.

The European Development Fund has approved the award of ECU1.95 [...]

Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur will be organizing, in collaboration [...]

NEXT ADB LOANS

The November and December board of directors' meetings of African Development Bank (ADB) are expected to examine loan applications for [...]

STRONG OIL POTENTIAL IN SOMALIA

According to a recent study carried out by Petroconsultants of Geneva, Switzerland on oil potential in East Africa, Somalia has [...]