Botswana

PORTUGUESE AID ON THE SLAB

Portugal's cooperation with Portuguese-speaking African countries (Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome) came under the parliamentary microscope in [...]

BRITISH TRADE MISSIONS

Britain's chambers of commerce are expected to concentrate their trade missions on the African continent to the Republic of South [...]

ALAIN AZOUAOU

The French foreign ministry has a new deputy director of its Southern Africa and Indian Ocean Desk, following the appointment [...]

JOAO DE DEUS PINHEIRO

The European Commissioner for relations with ACP countries and South [...]

GO WEST YOUNG MAN

Australia's trade minister Bob McMullan is due to visit Mauritius, South Africa and Zimbabwe from March 23 to 31 at [...]

SOUTHERN AFRICA GETS CFD BETS

The Republic of South Africa (FFr.218 million) and Mozambique (FFr.213.8 million) were the countries of southern and east Africa which [...]

NGUYEN MANH CAM

The Vietnamese foreign minister Nguyen Manh Cam is to make [...]

THREE TARGETS FOR ROME

The Italian government has identified three partners in southern Africa: the Southern African Development Community, the Republic of South Africa, [...]

EU AND SADC TALK

Representatives from the eleven-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the European Union met in Lilongwe last week to remove [...]

BRUSSELS TO HEAD SOUTH

Belgium foreign trade minister Robert Urbain wound up a tour of the Republic of South Africa last week with a [...]

OPEC FUND TAKES PART IN FINESSE

The Opec Fund for International Developmewnt has approved a small [...]

JEAN MARC ROCHEREAU DE LA SABLIERE

The head of the French foreign ministry's Africa Desk wants [...]

Following the agreement signed last year to set up African [...]

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MINING IN SADC: GETTING THE BALL ROLLING

Investment totalling over $200 million was pledged during a Mining Forum staged jointly in Lusaka between Sept. 7-9 by the European Union and the Southern Africa Development Conference (SADC). That could appear modest in view of how far sub-Saharan Africa [.

The first-ever summit of the Common Market of East and [...]

SIGNS OF A REGIONAL PEACE FORCE

After two days of debate in Arusha (Tanzania) in a conference organized by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), defence [...]

SHELL SEEKS SEMI SUB

Shell has put out a tender for a semi-submersible rig [...]

POOLING REGIONAL ELECTRICITY

Although progress continues with building an interconnection of the electricity grids of southern African countries, South Africa's state-owned electricity utility [...]

JULIUS NYERERE

The former Tanzanian head of state (1961-1985) told the South [...]