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China, France, Taiwan
Taiwan's " Red Envelopes "

Detailed, systematic and large scale corruption lay at the very heart of an aggressive strategy deployed by Thomson-CSF - now Thales - to sell French La Fayette-class frigates to Taiwan in the early 1990s. [...]

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DONORS CALL THE TUNE, SET THE TONE

The dominant tone of the World Bank consultative group on Kenya, scheduled in Paris on December 15 and 16, is [...]

Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 10.12.1994

BALLADUR'S TRAVELS

The trip to sunny Reunion Island and Mayotte by French prime minister Edouard Balladur and three members of his government on November 24 to 26 is one more instalment in the increasingly rasping face-off between the prime minister and the [.

Subscribers only Southern Africa and islands Africa Intelligence 26.11.1994

NOT BACK TO SQUARE ONE

The Kenyan government is hoping to have fresh discussions on its debt situation with the country's bilateral creditors in the Paris Club. Not, however, to seek another rescheduling of its debt repayments but this time, a rather more surprising request [.

Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 10.09.1994

NEW FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS

The US$820 million of fresh finance committed by Uganda's international fund donors and announced during the World Bank's consultative group [...]

Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 10.09.1994

A TOUGH AND CRITICAL MEETING

An informal meeting of Kenya's fund donors held in Paris on July 20 under the auspices of the World Bank [...]

Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 23.07.1994

RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES: FRENCH STRATEGY

In early July a round-table committee will examine a first series of applications for funding under a new pre-financing facility created by France for international projects on renewable sources of energy, particularly solar, and on energy conservation.

Subscribers only The Continent Africa Intelligence 15.06.1994

CHAIN REACTIONS

The forthcoming election for twenty-four of the forty-seven seats on the Reunion Conseil Général, with the first round of balloting [...]

Subscribers only Southern Africa and islands Africa Intelligence 19.02.1994

AID RESUMES... ON CERTAIN TERMS

The World Bank's Consultative Group on Kenya, which met in Paris on November 22 and 23, has decided to resume aid for Kenya's balance of payments (US$170 million for 1994 on total commitments of $850 million, to which must be [.

Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 27.11.1993

INTERNATIONAL EAGLE EYES

The Policy Framework Paper negotiated between the Kenyan government and the International Monetary Fund, which is due to be submitted [...]

Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 20.11.1993

BRUSHWOOD FIRES WITH DONORS

Although a Consultative Group meeting of the World Bank in Paris is expected on Kenya in the month of November, conditions still seem far from ready for normalising relations between the government in Nairobi and its fund donors.

Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 11.09.1993

TURKWELL RESURFACES

A speech given by opposition MP George Anyona on July 15 in the Kenyan parliament, during a debate on corruption, [...]

Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 31.07.1993

BACK SOON IN EVERYONE'S GOOD BOOKS

The government in Nairobi says it is satisfied with the outcome of the informal donors meeting that took place in [...]

Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 05.06.1993

BACK TO NORMAL RELATIONS WITH IMF

Kenya's relations with the International Monetary Fund seem to be well on the way to a return to normal. The IMF's high-level mission that left Nairobi last week, reached an accord with the Kenyan authorities.

Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 22.05.1993

EDF: EURO-AFRICAN COOPERATION

By staging its annual conference with the heads of African power companies on April 28-29 in Brussels after alternating 14 previous gatherings between France and Africa, and in co-sponsoring the meeting with Tracebel, Electricité de France clearly underlined its "European [.

Subscribers only The Continent Africa Intelligence 05.05.1993

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DONORS CALL THE TUNE, SET THE TONE

BALLADUR'S TRAVELS

NOT BACK TO SQUARE ONE

NEW FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS

A TOUGH AND CRITICAL MEETING

RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES: FRENCH STRATEGY

CHAIN REACTIONS

AID RESUMES... ON CERTAIN TERMS

INTERNATIONAL EAGLE EYES

BRUSHWOOD FIRES WITH DONORS

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BACK TO NORMAL RELATIONS WITH IMF

EDF: EURO-AFRICAN COOPERATION

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The great US-China subsea cables race in the Pacific

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Hungary
Viktor Orban's new security entourage

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Jamming wars

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