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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 [...]

The Southern Africa Development Community's Mining Coordinating Unit and the [...]

MAJOR EUROPEAN UNION/SADC MINING FORUM

The European Commission and the 11-member Southern African Development Community [...]

KATHERINE MARSHALL

Ms Katherine Marshall has headed the Southern Africa Department of the World Bank since September 1, covering ten countries in [...]

GATT STUDENTS

The 78th General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) course on trade policies commenced in Geneva on August 29 and [...]

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THE ELECTRICITY CLUB

In announcing an accord with Mozambique for starters, Malawi has moved in its turn to espouse the South African utility Eskom's plans to connect up all of Southern Africa in order to export its surplus of coal-fuelled electricity in the [.

TARGETS FOR BRITONS

Overseas Trade Services, a British government body which coordinates export promotion, has published a list of target countries for Britain's [...]

GERMAN FINANCIAL COOPERATION

Three countries of Southern Africa (plus the Cameroon in West Africa) saw an increase in 1993 of the financial aid [...]

REGIONAL TRANSPORT STUDY

Nine groups of consultants are competing for a European Commission contract for a study on regional integration of transport and [...]

NEW MINISTER

A new natural resources minister responsible for the Highlands hydraulic [...]