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previous Archive n° 556  - 12/26/1992 next   Francis Soler SOMALIA Editor in Chief UN PROTECTORATE The inevitability of a sort of United Nations protectorate in Somalia seems to be more of a reality with every day. (...)   [1028 words]  [$8.2] POLITICS KENYA ELECTORAL PATH STREWN WITH RISKS    A week before the general and presidential elections to be held in Kenya on December 29, observers from the Commonwealth and from the International Republican Institute (IRI) still appear to have reservations about the electoral process (ION N°555).  (...)  [290 words]  [$4.7] AFRICA/BELGIUM BELGIUM EMBASSIES TO CLOSE    According to project to restructure the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reported in the daily newspaper La Libre Belgique, the government is planning to close fifteen embassies in developing countries including Mozambique and Ethiopia.  (...)  [116 words]  [$4.7] MADAGASCAR    The official results of the first round of the presidential election issued on December 22 by the Haute Cour Constitutionelle, shows that there was a turn out of over 73 percent.  (...)  [56 words]  [$1.5] DJIBOUTI DJIBOUTIAN TROOPS FOR SOMALIA    In its December 10 issue, the official Djiboutian weekly publication, La Nation wrote "Djiboutian soldiers will without a doubt be called upon by soldiers of other countries for their knowledge of the language," in operation Restore Hope.  (...)  [153 words]  [$4.7] SOMALIA UN PROTECTORATE    The inevitability of a sort of United Nations protectorate in Somalia seems to be more of a reality with every day.  (...)  [1028 words]  [$8.2] MOZAMBIQUE    On a trip to the South of the country, on the border with the South African Transvaal province, a Western diplomat recently noticed that White South Africans were squatting, without any land deeds, terrain belonging to Mozambicans, but that had been abandoned years ago due to the civil war.  (...)  [77 words]  [$1.5] COMOROS ISLANDS UNLUCKY FOR SOME    The defeat of two major political figures in the Comoros Islands, Mouzaoir Abdallah and Mohamed Said Abdallah M'Changama, marked the by-election on December 13 and 20 in five constituencies.  (...)  [225 words]  [$4.7] KENYA    Ford Kenya (opposition) has sent a letter to the Japanese embassy in Nairobi to protest the signature of a contract by Japanese firm Mitsubishi with the State-run Kenyan Meat Commission.  (...)  [59 words]  [$1.5] SUDAN REBEL LEADER PASSES THROUGH PARIS    According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from diplomatic sources, the leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, Colonel John Garang, made a brief and discreet visit to the French capital last week, accompanied by his closest adviser based in London, Steven Bak.  (...)  [387 words]  [$4.7] MOZAMBIQUE DETAILS OF THE UN PEACE OPERATION    The United Nations Operation for Mozambique adopted by the UN Security Council last week, provides for the deployment of 8,000 personnel (military, police and civilian).  (...)  [560 words]  [$4.7] DJIBOUTI A POINTLESS ELECTION    The general election on December 18 were marked by a high abstention rate with over half of the registered voters staying away from the polls.  (...)  [388 words]  [$4.7] WHO'S WHO TANZANIA CCM'S NEW EXECUTIVE    The fourth national Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) congress saw Ali Hassan Mwinyi re-elected to the presidency of the party for another five years.  (...)  [109 words]  [$4.7] REUNION ISLAND JEAN THILL    A former inspector general of finance, today retired and living in the Landes region of South West France, Jean Thill has been recalled to duty by the French government to carry out a feasibility study in Reunion Island for the creation of an export processing zone (EPZ).  (...)  [226 words]  [$4.7] FRANCE/SOMALIA RENE DELHOME    The Commander of the 2,100 French troops in Somali deployed in Operation Oryx, is a veteran of Africa. Born in 1938 in Lyons, he joined the armed forces at the age of twenty, as an artillery soldier in the navy.  (...)  [234 words]  [$4.7] MAYOTTE ISLAND JEAN-PAUL COSTE    Prefect of the French territory of Mayotte, Jean-Paul Coste was charged last week with manslaughter by a magistrate from the Paris Appeal Court, in connection with the "explosive oil" case.  (...)  [131 words]  [$4.7] ECONOMICS SUDAN WHERE HAVE CHEVRON'S PERMITS GONE ?    State Petroleum based in Vancouver, Canada, run by Latki Khan, has announced it has obtained development rights on an area of 170,000 square kilometres in Sudan, covering the former  (...)  [545 words]  [$4.7] MADAGASCAR EDUCATION PROGRAM STRIKES GOLD    The African Development Fund (ADF), the Technical Assistance Fund (TAF), both affiliated to the African Development Bank (ADB), along with the OPEC fund have signed a financing agreement  (...)  [265 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA MAKING NEW TRACKS TO ASSAB    The International Development Association (IDA), affiliate of the World Bank, last month granted a 96-million dollar loan to the provisional Ethiopian government, for a road repair  (...)  [554 words]  [$4.7] MOZAMBIQUE ENCOURAGING INDICATORS FOR PORTS    Mozambique's three ports, Maputo, Beira and Nacala, have been used extensively in the past few months for the transit of cereals, other food and fertilizers to Southern or Central  (...)  [201 words]  [$4.7] MOZAMBIQUE FINANCE SCANDAL IN DEFENCE MINISTRY    The chief-of-staff of the Mozambican armed forces, general Hama Thai finds himself today at the centre of a financial scandal after being accused by a group of companies in the Mozambican  (...)  [370 words]  [$4.7] TANZANIA RECURRING NIGHTMARE FOR ALAF    British firm Comcraft Services Ltd (CSL) that left Tanzania in 1988 after encountering problems with State company Aluminium Africa Ltd (Alaf), proposes to set up again there with  (...)  [275 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA PLANS FOR NEW AIRPORT TERMINAL    An infrastructure study for the modernisation of the international airport serving the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, including the design for a new airport terminal has been placed  (...)  [188 words]  [$4.7] ZIMBABWE    In order to transport personnel and equipment from the District Development Fund the body has acquired four F406 Caravan II aeroplanes from Reims Aviation, a French company, at a cost  (...)  [66 words]  [$1.5] MOZAMBIQUE    The donors conference on Mozambique in Rome last week, pledged 320 million dollars for Mozambique.  (...)  [79 words]  [$1.5] ERITREA OFFSHORE PERMITS UP FOR RENEGOTIATION    The provisional Eritrean government recently took the lead in inviting preliminary negotiations with oil companies in possession of offshore permits (British Petroleum, Amoco, IPC)  (...)  [150 words]  [$4.7] AGENDA UNITED STATES/SOMALIA HERMAN COHEN    The Deputy Secretary of State for African Affairs told journalists on December 18 that the members of the regime in Sudan who he met recently, (ION N°555) reacted to the "sign" they  (...)  [78 words]  [$1.5] UNITED KINGDOM/MOZAMBIQUE BRUCE ANDERSON    David Hoile, the executive director of the Mozambique Institute, a body based in London that supports the Renamo movement in Mozambique has pointed out a regrettable case of confusion  (...)  [142 words]  [$1.5] SUDAN/VATICAN JEAN-PAUL II    The Pope is to stop over in the Sudanese capital on his African tour in February 1993.  (...)  [58 words]  [$1.5] SOUTH AFRICA IAN MCRAE    The director of South Africa's electricity company, Eskom, is to visit Uganda in early 1993, as part of a plan to extend his company's contacts throughout Africa.  (...)  [32 words]  [FREE] TANZANIA SHAABEN SEIF AMEIR    The chief of police in Zanzibar announced last week, the recent arrest of 35 Tanzanian Muslims, suspected of being "fundamentalists.  (...)  [66 words]  [$1.5]   previous Archive n° 556  - 12/26/1992 next

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