South Sudan

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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 [...]

British Overseas Development minister, Lynda Chalker announced on March 18 [...]

AN ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

According to the "Trends in Developing Economies 1992" handbook produced by the World Bank, the Comoros Islands "slackened off" at [...]

The United Nations is preparing to issue another appeal for [...]

BRITISH FOOD AID

Britain's minister for overseas development, Lynda Chalker, announced on 1 June that Great Britain has granted further emergency food aid [...]

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A HUMANITARIAN YALTA ?

Albeit with its intentions veiled, the recent conference on humanitarian questions, held this month in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, was the first step in a kind of episodic Yalta agreement, aimed at restructuring the whole region, under the watchful [.

SUDAN'S DIPLOMATIC MISSION

In a bid to escape from its international isolation, the Sudanese government is multiplying its diplomatic manoeuvres in the Horn [...]