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previous Archive n° 652  - 12/24/1994 next   Francis Soler KENYA Editor in Chief DONORS SAY "WELL, MAYBE..." Fund donors and the Kenyan government patched up their quarrels and made over their relations at the World Bank's consultative group on Kenya, meeting in Paris on December 15 and 16: (...)   [744 words]  [$8.2] POLITICS MOZAMBIQUE CHISSANO'S NEW CABINET    Head of state Joaquim Chissano named former foreign minister Pascoal Mocumbi as the country's new prime minister on December 16 in the country's new government which Chissano was setting up following his victory in Mozambique's recent multiparty elections (ION N°646).  (...)  [409 words]  [$4.7] SOMALIA    The United States is to send a task force of some 3,000 US Marines to protect the withdrawal of United Nations contingents from Somalia in March and to help recuperate their own military hardware.  (...)  [53 words]  [$1.5] DJIBOUTI AGREEMENT WITH FRUD AT LAST    According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Djibouti's interior minister Idriss Harbi Farah and the Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD) secretary general Ougoureh Kifleh Ahmed this week sent out official invitations to the signing ceremony of the peace and national reconciliation agreement between the government and FRUD.  (...)  [195 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY IN ADDIS    Travelling through Africa at the head of a high level delegation from the US State Department, US Defence Department, and USAID, president Bill Clinton's national security adviser Anthony Lake was in Addis Ababa on December 14.  (...)  [573 words]  [$4.7] SOMALIA PIRATES AHOY!    The head of Somali High Seas Fishing Company (SHIFCO), Mugne Said Omar, invited Boqor (king) Abdulahi Musse (aka King Kong, who is from the Osman Mahmoud subclan of Mejertein), to go to Yemen to negotiate the release of two of SHIFCO's fishing vessels recently captured by Mejertein pirates (ION N° 638).  (...)  [201 words]  [$4.7] DJIBOUTI LEGAL EAGLES TUSSLE    The affair of Jean Michel Pouchele, a young French volunteer worker jailed for eight months in Djibouti on charges of re-entering that country after having been expelled (ION N° 651), has become a lawyer's paradise and a layman's nightmare.  (...)  [462 words]  [$4.7] COMOROS ISLANDS    Schoolteachers and hospital staff went into their fourth month of industrial action at the beginning of December, whilst on December 19 the government set the date of January 9 for the beginning of schools' Spring term.  (...)  [91 words]  [$1.5] TANZANIA POLITICAL FEVER IN ZANZIBAR    The adoption by the Tanzanian parliament sitting at Dodoma on December 2 of a constitutional amendment (186 votes in favour, 5 against, about 60 absent or abstained) has sparked political furore in Zanzibar.  (...)  [435 words]  [$4.7] MAURITIUS BYE-ELECTION ON JANUARY 29    A bye-election has been set for January 29 for the two seats left vacant by the simultaneous resignation from parliament on November 29 of Paul Berenger, leader of Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM, opposition), and Jean Claude De L'Estrac, secretary general of Renouveau Militant Mauricien (RMM, breakaway faction of MMM which remained in government).  (...)  [283 words]  [$4.7] WHO'S WHO MADAGASCAR IPANEMA DE MOREIRA    A new princely being has been seen with Madagascar's important people: Michel Ipanema De Moreira, aka De Bourbon Parma. The visitor has been on the island for several weeks and has lunched several times with the chairman of the national assembly Richard Andriamanjato and has also met with the head of state Albert Zafy.  (...)  [215 words]  [$4.7] MOZAMBIQUE EDUARDO MULEMBWE    The appointment on December 8 of Eduardo Mulembwe as president of Mozambique's new national assembly was contested by the opposition RENAMO and opened a parliamentary crisis which was still far from over this week.  (...)  [140 words]  [$4.7] TANZANIA ALI HASSAN MWINYI    The recent government reshuffle that head of state Ali Hassan Mwinyi operated at the beginning of December (ION N° 650) was apparently not simply to satisfy Tanzania's fund donors.  (...)  [176 words]  [$4.7] SOUTH AFRICA CHERYL CAROLUS    Youngest woman in the African National Congress management team, Cheryl Carolus was elected ANC's deputy secretary general at its December 20 national conference.  (...)  [191 words]  [$4.7] ECONOMICS SOUTH AFRICA EASTERN BREAKTHROUGH    South Africa's largest investment project in eastern Europe since head of state Nelson Mandela took over the reins of power may be that proposed in the Czech Republic by Euro Hospital  (...)  [185 words]  [$4.7] KENYA DONORS SAY "WELL, MAYBE..."    Fund donors and the Kenyan government patched up their quarrels and made over their relations at the World Bank's consultative group on Kenya, meeting in Paris on December 15 and  (...)  [744 words]  [$8.2] KENYA A BEADY EYE ON THE PUBLIC SECTOR    The International Development Association, a World Bank subsidiary, is expected to approve a loan of US$25.35 million this week to finance part of a Kenyan institutional development  (...)  [394 words]  [$4.7] ERITREA THUMBS-UP FOR ASMARA    Fund donors who met in Paris on December 19 and 20 for the World Bank's first consultative group meeting on Eritrea gave the Asmara authorities an approving thumbs-up signal.  (...)  [542 words]  [$4.7] MADAGASCAR FLAMCO BOATS HIGH AND DRY    Two freighters chartered by Flamco Madagascar have been tied up at quay in Toamasina, on Madagascar's eastern coastline, for nearly two weeks without being able to discharge 24,000  (...)  [236 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA MOSCOW INTRIGUES THE PARIS CLUB    According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Paris Club officials are intrigued by talks going on over the future of Ethiopia's debts to Russia.  (...)  [195 words]  [$4.7] MOZAMBIQUE FRANCE TO HELP MAPUTO POLICE    France's Fonds d'Aide et de Coopération (FAC), which comes under the cooperation ministry, agreed a financial package in November worth FFr.  (...)  [168 words]  [$4.7] FRANCE/THE INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS THREE FAC CREDIT LINES    The management committee of France's Fonds d'Aide et de Coopération (FAC), part of the cooperation ministry, has approved finance packages for three Indian Ocean countries (Comoros  (...)  [247 words]  [$4.7] MADAGASCAR    The Malagasy authorities called meetings of wholesale buyers of Malagasy vanilla in New York and Paris last week and in Geneva this week to inform them that the government has set  (...)  [48 words]  [$1.5] SOUTHERN AFRICA    Following the agreement signed last year to set up African Joint Air Services, a new airline was born in Dar es Salaam last week under the name Alliance.  (...)  [93 words]  [$1.5] ERITREA/ETHIOPIA    The national airlines Eritrean Airlines and Ethiopian Airlines decided last week to set up a joint company to operate air traffic rights which the Eritrean company on its own is not  (...)  [123 words]  [$1.5] ZIMBABWE    Allied Motor Distributors (a joint venture between Astra and Payne & Quest) began assembling the French-designed Peugeot 405 vehicle in its Mutare plant on December 6.  (...)  [103 words]  [$1.5] COMOROS ISLANDS    A conference of Arab and Comoros businessmen scheduled to be held in Moroni from December 7 and 10 which had been announced with a great deal of publicity was finally cancelled because  (...)  [89 words]  [$1.5] AGENDA ZIMBABWE NDABANINGI SITHOLE    The leader of ZANU-Ndonga (opposition) won easily in the bye-election at Chipinge South on December 19 and 20 (ION N° 650).  (...)  [43 words]  [FREE] IRAN/KENYA HAMID MOAYYER    Iran's ambassador to Kenya, Hamid Moayyer, has announced that his country plans to organize a trade fair in Nairobi at the beginning of next year.  (...)  [50 words]  [$1.5] SOUTHERN AFRICA/FRANCE JEAN MARC ROCHEREAU DE LA SABLIERE    The head of the French foreign ministry's Africa Desk wants to undertake a trip through four southern African countries (Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe) at the beginning of 19  (...)  [101 words]  [$1.5] TANZANIA REGINAL A. MENGI    Following the Leader in The Indian Ocean Newsletter of November 12 (N° 646), Tanzanian businessman Reginal A.  (...)  [83 words]  [$1.5]   previous Archive n° 652  - 12/24/1994 next

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