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Francis Soler
ZIMBABWE Editor in Chief
THE REFORM CRUNCH IS COMING
Despite some slight recovery in the second half of 1993, the economic balance sheet for 1993 remains pretty mediocre for Zimbabwe: inflation and interest rates have declined but the growth rate (about 1 or 2 percent of GDP) is lower than forecasts and the budget deficit remains high (at 11. (...)   [752 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS
SOMALIA
   As expected (ION N° 602), the two principal rival factions of Somali politics made similar but separate assessments of failure for the negotiations held in Addis Ababa over the past two weeks under the mediation of Ethiopia's head of state, Meles Zenawi.  (...)  [78 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
LESSONS OF THE MAPUTO RIOTS
   Opening the World Bank consultative meeting on Mozambique in Paris last week (ION N° 601), the head of the Bank's southern Africa department, Stephen Denning, said he saw four lessons to be drawn from the riots in Maputo which had been sparked by recent price increases (ION N°600).  (...)  [295 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
OPPONENTS CONFER IN ADDIS ABABA
   Many Ethiopian exiles who oppose the present Ethiopian regime have applied to Ethiopian embassies in several western capitals for visas in order to attend the national conference for peace and reconciliation in Ethiopia (ION N° 595), which is being organised in Addis Ababa from December 18 to 22 by about fifty opposition groups.  (...)  [298 words]   [$7]
SOMALILAND
NAIROBI KILLS EGAL VISIT
   Officially invited by Kenya's head of state Daniel arap Moi, the president of Somaliland, Mohamed Ibrahim Egal, was due to fly to Nairobi with five ministers of his government this week.  (...)  [197 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
   A police raid in Kampala on a building that had been converted into a religious mosque by an Islamic sect resulted in the arrest of 46 persons on suspicion of being fundamental Islamists.  (...)  [57 words]   [$2,1]
COMOROS ISLANDS
FIRST ROUND TO THE OPPOSITION
   The four candidates elected to the federal assembly in the first round of balloting on December 12, which was marked by a poor turnout, are all members of the opposition.  (...)  [308 words]   [$7]
ZIMBABWE
   The head of state, Robert Mugabe, is coming in for criticism from his own party, ZANU (PF).  (...)  [78 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI
SUSPICIONS ON TRANSIT CARGO
   A recent shipment of containers due to transit through Djibouti sparked anxiety and numerous questions among opposition groups, who felt sure the shipment represented arms traffic, and the government, where almost any unusual incident arouses suspicions.  (...)  [400 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
   The head of state, Hassan Gouled Aptidon, granted a presidential pardon on December 15 to Ali Aref Bourhane, who was president of the ruling council during the French colonial period, and to thirteen fellow prisoners.  (...)  [85 words]   [$2,1]
SEYCHELLES
THE BOOMERANG EFFECT OF A TRIAL
   The defamation case brought by Mrs. Bernadette Port Louis, the secretary of head of state France Albert Rene, against the former defence minister (now an opponent to the ruling regime), Ogilvy Berlouis, might turn out to be a nasty boomerang.  (...)  [523 words]   [$7]
KENYA
DISPLACED PERSONS MEAN HEADACHES
   A study on the recent ethnic conflict in Kenya, ordered by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) from the consultant John Rogge and handed to UNDP at the end of October, underlines that the conflict results from increasing pressure for access to land but is also "directly and unequivocally related to the ongoing process of democratisation in Kenya", which has revived traditional ethnic rivalries, and competition for real estate.  (...)  [529 words]   [$7]

WHO'S WHO
ZIMBABWE
HERBERT USHEWOKUNZE
   The former minister of energy, water and development, who was removed from his post last year following violent criticism of government corruption, has just confirmed his influence within the government-supporting party ZANU.  (...)  [104 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
ABDURAHMAN BOREH
   His ship, the Hormar, loaded with a curious cargo intended for Yemen has just caused a furore in Djibouti (see page 3 of this issue).  (...)  [189 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES/TANZANIA
SEBASTIAN MURANGIRA
   The Tanzanian captain of the SS Malo, arrested on March 5 while sailing 47 nautical miles off the Seychelles' coast with a cargo of arms consigned to Somalia, was sentenced last week to twelve months prison by a Seychelles court.  (...)  [109 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA/UNITED NATIONS
LAKHDAR BRAHIMI
   Algeria's former foreign minister was named this week by the United Nations secretary general, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, as his special representative in the Republic of South Africa.  (...)  [269 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS
SUDAN
REVAMP FOR TECHNICAL COLLEGES
   The African Development Fund has drafted an aid project for technical education in Sudan which might receive a loan of US$32 million to rehabilitate twelve technical colleges in several  (...)  [149 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
PARIS AND ARMS MARKETS
   It is understood that France's foreign minister Alain Juppé is expected to visit Johannesburg from January 17 to 18 and the defence minister, François Léotard, is believed to have  (...)  [200 words]   [$7]
ZIMBABWE
THE REFORM CRUNCH IS COMING
   Despite some slight recovery in the second half of 1993, the economic balance sheet for 1993 remains pretty mediocre for Zimbabwe: inflation and interest rates have declined but the  (...)  [752 words]   [$11,2]
MOZAMBIQUE
FIRMS TO BE PRIVATISED
   A delegation led by Mozambique's prime minister, Mario De Graça Machungo, met with fifty or so representatives of French companies at a conference organised by the French employers'  (...)  [461 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
REQUEST TO EU ON SUGAR
   Present at the annual meeting of social partners in the joint ACP-EC assembly, held in Brussels at the beginning of December, the secretary-general of the Mauritius Chamber of Agriculture,  (...)  [478 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
   In a background document on Africa and the Indian Ocean region, France's cooperation ministry says Djibouti's budget for 1993 brings out "an artificial equilibrium by including an  (...)  [79 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
   European Development Fund is to make ECU 16.4 million (US$17.7 million) available to rehabilitate twelve provincial airports.  (...)  [67 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTHERN AFRICA
FRESH WORLD BANK PROJECTS
   The World Bank has added four new projects to its list of financing planned: two for Mozambique, one for Uganda and one for Zimbabwe.  (...)  [278 words]   [$7]
KENYA
REFORMS IN HUMAN RESOURCES
   The Policy Framework Paper for 1994-1996 adopted by the Kenyan government last month (ION N° 601) contains a section covering reforms of human resources in addition to the economic  (...)  [512 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
MINING FEASIBILITY STUDY
   The African Development Fund (ADF, part of the African Development Bank group) is expected to give approval this week to financing for a feasibility study on the iron ore deposits  (...)  [280 words]   [$7]

AGENDA
TANZANIA
RAY HAINSWORTH
   A director of YDK Holdings Tanzania Limited, which controls several companies whose shareholders are Yogesh Kotak and his brother Dhiran Kotak (both also directors of YDK), wrote on  (...)  [222 words]   [$2,1]
ITALY/SOMALIA
FABIO FABBRI
   Italy's defence minister said on December 15 that his country's contingent in UNOSOM 2 would leave Somalia next spring "shortly after the departure of the US contingent".  (...)  [32 words]   [FREE]
UGANDA
STEVEN CHEBROT
   The refugee official in Uganda reported on December 13 that the Sudanese air force had employed high-level bombing tactics on Uganda's territory in uninhabited areas close to the villages  (...)  [47 words]   [$2,1]
UNITED NATIONS/SUDAN
VIERRI TRAXLER
   The United Nations special envoy, who is in charge of humanitarian affairs, recently made a nine-day visit to Sudan to examine on the ground the application of agreements reached last  (...)  [63 words]   [$2,1]
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