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Francis Soler
MOZAMBIQUE Editor in Chief
ELECTORAL PERILS
With only three weeks to go to the general elections scheduled for October 27 and 28, the tone has sharpened considerably between leaders and supporters of the two main political groups: the FRELIMO government party headed by head of state Joaquim Chissano and the RENAMO movement headed by Afonso Dhlakama. (...)   [895 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS
DJIBOUTI
SPLIT CONFIRMED IN FRUD
   In a communique dated September 28 and signed by Mohamed Adoyta Yussuf, the Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD) faction hostile to negotiations with the Djibouti government) announced that it held a congress of supporters in the northern part of the country from September 16 to 21.  (...)  [439 words]   [$7]
REUNION ISLAND
   Jean Claude Douvry, the chairman and managing director of SADE, a subsidiary of France's Compagnie Générale des Eaux (which is based in Paris and Djibouti), and Dominique Allard, one of the company's officials for international relations, were charged and held in detention on Reunion Island this week in connection with inquiries into an important case of corruption at the town hall of St Denis De La Réunion.  (...)  [134 words]   [$2,1]
SUDAN
MEDIATION BY IGADD... OR NONE
   The leader of Sudan's National Islamic Front (NIF), Hassan al-Tourabi, has suffered a setback to his hopes of undertaking a diplomatic tour of the countries in the IGADD group (Intergovernmental Association on Drought and Development) which is mediating the civil conflict with southern Sudan.  (...)  [231 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
ELECTORAL PERILS
   With only three weeks to go to the general elections scheduled for October 27 and 28, the tone has sharpened considerably between leaders and supporters of the two main political groups: the FRELIMO government party headed by head of state Joaquim Chissano and the RENAMO movement headed by Afonso Dhlakama.  (...)  [895 words]   [$11,2]
SOMALIA
EPISTLE TO BOUTROS-GHALI
   In a letter dated September 25 addressed to United Nations secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali and the UN Security Council, the president of Somaliland, Mohamed Ibrahim Egal, has "corrected" two items in the UNOSOM2 report submitted in New York on September 17 which seemed inaccurate to him.  (...)  [435 words]   [$7]
KENYA
STRIKERS COME OFF THE PICKET LINE
   The acting secretary general of Kenya's University Academic Staff Union (UASU), Gregory Naulikha, and several officials of the unrecognized union on September 28 called on members to halt the industrial action in the country's four public universities they had begun on November 29, 1993.  (...)  [314 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
PARIS AMBASSADOR RECALLED
   The Comoros ambassador in Paris, Sultan Chouzour, has expressed his "surprise" to the foreign minister Said Mohamed Sagaf, who had written to the ambassador on September 28 relieving him of his functions (ION N° 640).  (...)  [316 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
   Madagascar's new ambassador to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in Paris), the linguist Imbe Jacob, who comes from the same region as head of state Albert Zafy, made a spectacular entry into function by taking over the whole building which the Malagasy authorities habitually place at the disposal of Malagasy personalities passing through the French capital.  (...)  [121 words]   [$2,1]
ZIMBABWE
STATE VISIT BY THE IRISH PRESIDENT
   In the framework of a regional tour which has already taken her to Zambia and which will lead her to Tanzania next week, the Republic of Ireland's head of state Mrs.  (...)  [378 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
   Following the September 3 assassination by unknown gunmen of Derari Kefani, a prominent Oromo elder, in front of his home in Ambo, a town of several thousand inhabitants about 120 km west of Addis Ababa, police carried out dozens of arrests of members of the dead man's family and friends.  (...)  [94 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
KENYA
HENRY CHASIA
   A Kenyan candidate, Henry Chasia, was elected deputy secretary general of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Geneva, one of the United Nations specialized agencies, by 83 votes to 37 against the next candidate, Algeria's Mohamed Harbi.  (...)  [142 words]   [$7]
ITALY/MOZAMBIQUE
MANFREDO DI CAMERANA
   Italy's ambassador to Mozambique since 1989, Manfredo Incisa Di Camerana, will leave his post about the end of the year (anyway after Mozambique's general elections at the end of October) and will return to the foreign ministry in Rome.  (...)  [253 words]   [$7]
BELGIUM/SEYCHELLES
RENIER NIJSKENS
   Belgium's new ambassador to The Seychelles, Renier Nijskens, presented his Letters of Credence to the head of state, France Albert René, on September 27.  (...)  [103 words]   [$7]
ZIMBABWE
DAVID ANTHONY COOK
   The World Bank has appointed a new permanent resident representative to Harare in the person of David Anthony Cook. Aged 53, he comes from Washington but had earlier been the Bank's resident representative in Saudi Arabia.  (...)  [136 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS
DJIBOUTI/UNITED STATES
   Djibouti's finance minister Ahmed Aden Yussuf and the United States ambassador to Djibouti Martin L.  (...)  [73 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
LAND DISPUTE AT MOAMBA
   Local residents in Chankulo, a rural zone lying between Ressano Garcia (on the South African frontier) and Moamba (north-west of Maputo) recently filed a legal complaint against Empresa  (...)  [173 words]   [$7]
ZIMBABWE
MEAT EXPORTS RISING
   Zimbabwe has already exported more than 8,000 tons of beef meat to Europe this year and finds itself well on target for filling its quota of 9,100 tons authorized by the European  (...)  [219 words]   [$7]
AFRICA/SWEDEN
SWEDEN'S AID
   For Fiscal 1995-1996, Tanzania heads the list of beneficiaries of Swedish bilateral aid to African countries, and is the second country on the overall list of beneficiary countries  (...)  [220 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
AIR COMORES RENTS A TWIN OTTER
   Comoros prime minister Mohamed Abdou Madi returned home to Moroni from Mauritius on September 21 with a bright smile and a contract in his pocket covering the rental of a Twin Otter  (...)  [242 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
UNOMOZ HELPS TRADE
   Several Portuguese companies in the transmissions sector have taken advantage of the presence of a transmissions unit in the Portuguese contingent for the United Nations Operations  (...)  [124 words]   [$7]
ZIMBABWE
   Inflation accelerated following devaluation of the Zimbabwe dollar on December 31, 1993, and this trend was confirmed in August 1994 when inflation hit an annual rate of 24.  (...)  [92 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
PORT LOUIS AIN'T DOPEY
   Former Labour Party minister Luchmeeparsad Badry and an economist working in the Mauritian planning ministry Naraindraduth Lutchmaya were arrested by police on September 28 and charged  (...)  [405 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
   Representatives of central banks from Portuguese-speaking countries met in Lisbon on September 27 and 28 in the presence of Mozambique's finance minister, Eneas Comiche.  (...)  [125 words]   [$2,1]
SOMALIA
EMBASSY FOR SALE
   Employees of the Somali embassy in Nairobi who were working there at the time of the destitution of the former head of state, Siad Barre, in 1991 have just appealed to the Kenyan authorities  (...)  [248 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
NO AGREEMENT WITH IMF
   The Malagasy government apparently took two months to reply, at the beginning of September, to the letter of July 7 it received from the director general of the International Monetary  (...)  [409 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
AIR FRANCE ARRIVES
   The French ambassador to Uganda, François Descoueyte, announced in Kampala last week that Air France would be inaugurating a service to Entebbe international airport on November first  (...)  [304 words]   [$7]

AGENDA
SOUTH AFRICA
JAY NAIDOO
   South Africa's minister without portfolio, who is responsible for the country's reconstruction and development programme (RDP), said in Pretoria this week that an international conference  (...)  [52 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI/ETHIOPIA
MELES ZENAWI
   Ethiopia's head of state arrived in Djibouti on October 3 for an official visit of four days, the first visit since he took office in Addis Ababa in 1991.  (...)  [62 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI/FRANCE
JEAN MICHEL POUCHELE
   The president of the humanitarian NGO SOS Africa was arrested in Djibouti on October first and is expected to be charged with illegal entry into the country.  (...)  [93 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA/LEBANON
ELIE WAZAN
   The Lebanese arms merchant who organized the sale of several thousand AK-47 assault rifles and G3 submachine guns by South Africa's state-owned Armscor, apparently to Yemen, is no  (...)  [112 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
ARMANDO GUEBUZA
   Mozambique's transport minister is in open conflict with a traditional figurehead of the FRELIMO government party, Mariano Matsinhe, who is directing the electoral campaign of the  (...)  [92 words]   [$2,1]
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