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Francis Soler
AFRICA
UNITED STATES		 Editor in Chief
CLINTON'S AFRICA TEAM
Even if Africa is not his main concern, United States president-elect, Bill Clinton has, what is being referred to as an African "brain trust". The most prominent member of this group is Anthony Lake, who was on the National Security Council during the Richard Nixon era, and at the time this former US President resigned when the US forces entered Cambodia. (...)   [580 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS
AFRICA/UNITED STATES
CLINTON'S AFRICA TEAM
   Even if Africa is not his main concern, United States president-elect, Bill Clinton has, what is being referred to as an African "brain trust". The most prominent member of this group is Anthony Lake, who was on the National Security Council during the Richard Nixon era, and at the time this former US President resigned when the US forces entered Cambodia.  (...)  [580 words]   [$11,2]
DJIBOUTI
THE NON-EVENT OF NEGOTIATIONS
   The Djiboutian government last week refused to meet the rebels of the Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD) as arranged, on November 20, and as President Hassan Gouled had agreed when he met French President Mitterrand (ION N°549), in Paris.  (...)  [249 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
QUESTIONABLE ELECTION RESULTS
   Of the forty-two seats in the Comoros Islands' federal assembly up for grabs in the first round of general elections on November 22, only four were won outright.  (...)  [352 words]   [$7]
KENYA
OPPOSITION FEARS
   Four opposition - Ford-Kenya, the Democratic Party (DP), Kenya National Democratic Alliance (Kenda) and the Labour Party Democracy - last week passed a 13-point text summarising their demands for December's general elections to be free and democratic.  (...)  [155 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
TENSION MOUNTS IN SEVERAL REGIONS
   Ethiopian opposition pirate radio, received by the BBC on November 18, reported that the Ethiopian authorities are experiencing serious problems in maintaining order in several regions.  (...)  [304 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
ARMY CHANGES
   President France Albert René of the Seychelles told a freshly graduated officer corps on November 25 that changes in the army would be necessary during the transition to democracy.  (...)  [219 words]   [$7]
SOMALIA
REGRETS AND RANCOUR FOR SAHNOUN
   In an interview published by Arab-language daily al Hayat on November 22, Mohamed Sahnoun, the former special representative of the United Nations Secretary General, Boutros Boutros Ghali, in Somalia was fiercely critical of his ex-boss (ION N°550).  (...)  [286 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
   The leader of the Democratic Party (DP), former President James Mancham said in London on November 25, that an expert in constitutional law, Philippa Kaufman, would be arriving in the Seychelles on December 4 to assist the DP and the rest of the opposition to prepare a draft constitution.  (...)  [93 words]   [$2,1]
SUDAN
NASIR FACTION'S PEACE PLAN
   The Nasir faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) led by Lam Akol and Riak Machar has announced its proposals for a settlement of the Sudanese civil war.  (...)  [380 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
   It seems that it is the first time since the Rome treaty was signed in the first week of October, but Mozambican ministers and representatives of Renamo were jointly invited on November 20, to meet with a European diplomat.  (...)  [133 words]   [$2,1]
SOMALILAND
   According to sources close to Somaliland's hierarchy, over four tonnes of sarin chemical warfare gas are stocked in large cylinders in a hut in Berbera.  (...)  [85 words]   [$2,1]
REUNION ISLAND
   The presidents of the Chambre de l'Agriculture (Angelo Lauret), the Chambre des Métiers (Hilaire Maillot) and the Chambre de Commerce et de l'Industrie (René Lin Teng Shee), who form the Comité de Liaison Interconsulaire de la Réunion, sent on October 28, a protest letter to members of the "overseas" group at the Commissariat Général du Plan.  (...)  [112 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
AN ELECTION WIN FOR ZAFY
   President of the Haute Autorité de l'Etat, (HAE), Albert Zafy, the Forces Vives' candidate in Madagascar's presidential election on November 25, is leading after the counting of two million of the 5.  (...)  [410 words]   [$7]

WHO'S WHO
SEYCHELLES
BASIL SOUNDY
   During his association's annual congress held in Victoria on November 25, the chairman of the Federation of Employers Associations of the Seychelles, Basil Soundy made a harsh criticism of the government's economic policy and called for State monopolies to be dismantled.  (...)  [198 words]   [$7]
ERITREA
RAMADAN MOHAMED NUR
   Former founder of the Eritrean liberation Front (ELF) in 1961, then of the Eritrean liberation Forces (EPLF) in 1970 and finally of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) in 1977, he was secretary general of the latter organisation from 1977 to 1987.  (...)  [190 words]   [$7]
UNITED KINGDOM/MOZAMBIQUE
FRIENDS OF RENAMO
   The Mozambique Institute, the British organisations that is lobbying on behalf of Mozambican opposition movement Renamo, has an advisory council, including two Conservative Party MPs, George Gardiner and Andrew Hunter, as well as a right-wing intellectual, Norman Stone.  (...)  [240 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS
MOZAMBIQUE
INTERNATIONAL FINANCING FOR A LEGITIMATE STATE
   The International Development Association (IDA), a World Bank affiliate, was due to come to a decision this week, on approving a loan of 15.  (...)  [424 words]   [$7]
ZIMBABWE
HARD PUSHED TO MAKE REFORMS
   Just ahead of the World Bank Consultative Group meeting on Zimbabwe in Paris on December 2 and 3, the new British ambassador to Zimbabwe, Richard Dales announced on November 24 that  (...)  [333 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
ADVICE FROM THE WORLD BANK
   In a recent study entitled, Mauritius: Expanding Horizons, the World Bank has drawn up a list of drawbacks for the Mauritian economy and reforms to be taken to remedy them.  (...)  [541 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
HITTING THE CONSULTATIVE GROUP JACKPOT
   At the end of the World Bank Consultative Group on Ethiopia meeting in Paris on November 23 and 24, the first for this country since 1974, the transitional Ethiopian government was  (...)  [545 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
TWIN OTTERS UP FOR SALE
   Acting on the advice of the World Bank, Tanzanian national airline carrier, Air Tanzania Corporation (ATC) is to put up for sale its Twin Otter aircraft.  (...)  [252 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
ALUMINIUM FOUNDRY PROJECT MOVES AHEAD
   Chairman of the South African mining company, Gencor, Brian Gilbertson last week gave the go-ahead for the 7.2-billion-rand (2.5 billion dollars) Alusaf project on the site at Richards  (...)  [515 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
   Portugal is spending 25,000 contos (178,500 dollars) each day on Hidroelectrica de Cabora Bassa.  (...)  [53 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
DEBT SWAPS ON HOLD
   The recent rescheduling agreement for Mozambique's debt to Portugal provided for a quarter of the public debt, about fourteen million dollars, to be converted into debt swaps (ION  (...)  [143 words]   [$7]

AGENDA
SOUTH AFRICA
DEREK KEYS
   Invited to Paris last week by the French employers federation (CNPF), the South African mininster of economy, finance, trade and industry as well as economic cooperation, Derek Keys  (...)  [84 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA/FRANCE
ROELOF "PIK" BOTHA
   The South African foreign minister said on November 24 that he intends to visit Paris from January 13 to 15, for the official signing of the Anti-Chemical Weapons Convention, that  (...)  [43 words]   [FREE]
SOUTH AFRICA/FRANCE
EDOUARD BALLADUR
   Former French minister of economy and finance, Edouard Balladur, a possible opposition (RPR, conservative) choice for prime minister if the right-wing comes to power in France after  (...)  [111 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
PAUL MUITE
   Vice-chairman of the opposition Forum for the Restoration of Democracy (FORD-Kenya) said this week that the French government, French companies and French financial institutions's  (...)  [78 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA/UNITED KINGDOM
LINDA CHALKER
   It seems that the British minister for overseas aid and development, Linda Chalker is high on the list for the position of head of the BBC's foreign service.  (...)  [33 words]   [FREE]
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