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previous Archive n° 643  - 10/22/1994 next   Francis Soler MADAGASCAR Editor in Chief THE UNHEAVENLY TRIPLETS The strong-arm wrestling going on between the unheavenly triplets who rule Madagascar (head of state Albert Zafy, prime minister Francisque Ravony, national assembly president Richard Andriamanjato) has doubtless hit its peak. (...)   [668 words]  [$8.2] POLITICS SOUTH AFRICA    Some 320 of South Africa's budding diplomats hanging around the corridors of the foreign ministry are getting distinctly impatient with the non-arrival of their nominations to diplomatic posts.  (...)  [64 words]  [$1.5] SOMALIA    Delegates of twelve Somali factions issued an appeal on October 14 for a conference of national reconciliation to be held in Mogadiscio on October 27.  (...)  [198 words]  [$1.5] COMOROS ISLANDS EXIT MOHAMED ABDOU    The political battle set off by the Ashley-Air Comores affair (ION N° 636) within the Rassemblement pour la Démocratie et le Renouveau (RDR, the government party) between the president of the national assembly Mohamed M'Changama in one camp, and prime minister Mohamed Abdou Madi in the other camp, turned sour for the latter last week.  (...)  [476 words]  [$4.7] UGANDA FIRST DEFEAT FOR FEDEROS    The backers of a federalist constitution, known locally as the "Federos" and influential with electors in Buganda, last week lost two major debates on the contents of Uganda's future constitution.  (...)  [288 words]  [$4.7] SOMALILAND FIGHTING IN HARGEISA    Armed units loyal to president Mohamed Ibrahim Egal were engaged in Hargeisa in the morning of October 15 against a group of three hundred defecting militiamen from Force III, part of the old guerrilla army of the Somali National Movement.  (...)  [332 words]  [$4.7] DJIBOUTI TWO MINISTERS FIRED    Head of state Hassan Gouled Aptidon dismissed the minister for youth, sports and cultural affairs Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed Sultan and the minister of labour and professional training Ibiro Ahmed Hamadou on October 16.  (...)  [257 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA DIFFICULTIES OF CENSUS TAKERS    The census of the Ethiopian people undertaken by the government in Addis Ababa has run into difficulties in a number of regions.  (...)  [173 words]  [$4.7] MOZAMBIQUE THE CHURCH AND THE ELECTIONS    The Roman Catholic church hierarchy in Mozambique says it is in a position to recognize with precision any cases of electoral fraud which may be perpetrated during the general elections of October 27 and 28.  (...)  [216 words]  [$4.7] SOUTH AFRICA NZO SOON TO PARIS    South African foreign minister Alfred Nzo will be the guest of his French opposite number Alain Juppé in Paris on November 4 and 5 and is expected to meet also with the French junior minister for European affairs Alain Lamassoure.  (...)  [559 words]  [$4.7] MADAGASCAR THE UNHEAVENLY TRIPLETS    The strong-arm wrestling going on between the unheavenly triplets who rule Madagascar (head of state Albert Zafy, prime minister Francisque Ravony, national assembly president Richard Andriamanjato) has doubtless hit its peak.  (...)  [668 words]  [$8.2] MOZAMBIQUE SERIOUS FEARS OF UN ENVOY    The United Nations secretary general's special representative in Mozambique Aldo Ajello has taken very seriously the threat this week by AMODEG, an association of war veterans which claims to represent 65,000 ex-soldiers, to sabotage the elections on October 27 and 28 if international fund donors do not finance social rehabilitation projects for them.  (...)  [406 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA MORE US MEDIATION    According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Harry Johnston, chairman of the US House sub-committee on African affairs, last month set up a task force in Washington to attempt fresh mediation between the Ethiopian government in Addis Ababa and the political opposition.  (...)  [561 words]  [$4.7] AFRICA/FRANCE BIARRITZ SUMMIT    Heads of state of several Indian Ocean countries have been invited to participate in the forthcoming Francophone summit, scheduled to be held in Biarritz (France) on November 8 and 9.  (...)  [369 words]  [$4.7] WHO'S WHO EAST AFRICA/FRANCE BERNADETTE LEFORT    Currently holding the Number Two position in France's permanent delegation to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, Bernadette Lefort will shortly take over as deputy head of the central and east African desk in the French foreign ministry.  (...)  [194 words]  [$4.7] DJIBOUTI LUC ADEN    The governor of Djibouti's central bank, Banque Nationale de Djibouti, Luc Aden, is to give up his functions about mid-November to take up an international posting at World Bank headquarters in Washington.  (...)  [95 words]  [$4.7] UNITED KINGDOM/MADAGASCAR PAUL BARRETT    Paul Barrett, who is the chairman of the Tropical Africa Advisory Group (TAAG) and currently vice chairman of SmithKline Beecham, one of the largest pharmaceutical groups in the world, is to head an official British trade mission to Madagascar from October 30 to November 4.  (...)  [125 words]  [$4.7] SOUTH AFRICA MOE SHAIK    Moe Shaik, a member of the African National Congress Intelligence and Security Department who has been named as candidate for one of the two posts of directors general of South Africa's new National Intelligence Service (the candidate for the other DG is Mike Louw, who is at present head of NIS) has started a campaign for promotion.  (...)  [197 words]  [$4.7] ECONOMICS COMOROS ISLANDS FIRST RESULTS OF DEVALUATION    The report on the economic situation of the Comoros Islands for the first half of 1994, submitted to the recent meeting of economic and finance ministers from countries of the French  (...)  [470 words]  [$4.7] SOUTH AFRICA PEUGEOT PROJECTS    Representatives of French vehicle builder Peugeot PSA have recently made a number of trips to the Republic of South Africa, a country the company pulled out of seven years ago on the  (...)  [295 words]  [$4.7] ZIMBABWE    The French and Zimbabwe governments signed the protocol of a financial assistance package on October 124 which is worth some FFr.  (...)  [63 words]  [$1.5] DJIBOUTI FRANCE SUBSIDIZES PORT    Djibouti's finance minister Ahmed Aden Yussuf and the head of the parastatal Caisse Française de Développement (CFD) office in Djibouti, François Rivière, signed a convention on October  (...)  [342 words]  [$4.7] KENYA    Serengeti Diamonds Ltd has signed a joint venture agreement under which it gets a 50-percent holding in a mining company operating in western Kenya which run until 1998; there are  (...)  [60 words]  [$1.5] MAYOTTE ISLAND THE TOUCHY PROBLEM OF JOBS    The situation of employment on Mayotte is "particularly preoccupying" and the question "is likely to crop up again and again in the coming years", according to a report from the organization  (...)  [359 words]  [$4.7] SOUTH AFRICA    The Australian organization Woodland Exhibitions will be working with Austrade, the Australian Chamber of Commerce in South Africa, and the South African Business Council to set up  (...)  [48 words]  [$1.5] MAURITIUS    A delegation from General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT, by then renamed World Trade Organization) will go to Port Louis in January to study the country's trading practices  (...)  [52 words]  [$1.5] AGENDA ERITREA/UNITED STATES PETROS SOLOMON    In the framework of a mission to the United States when he participated in the United Nations general assembly, Eritrea's foreign minister Petros Solomon met members of the US House  (...)  [79 words]  [$1.5] SOUTHERN AFRICA/TANZANIA JULIUS NYERERE    The former Tanzanian head of state (1961-1985) told the South African parliament's foreign affairs commission in Cape Town on October 18 that the Republic ought to commence discussions  (...)  [49 words]  [$1.5] ETHIOPIA ASRAT WOLDEYES    The president of the All Amhara People's Organization (AAPO) addressed a letter from his prison cell on October 5 to the public prosecutor of Ethiopia's central high court.  (...)  [93 words]  [$1.5] SOUTH AFRICA/IRAN ALFRED NZO    South Africa's foreign minister is to go to Iran next week to meet his Iranian opposite number Ali Akbar Velayati.  (...)  [49 words]  [$1.5] SUDAN MOHAMMAD KHEIR AL ZUBEIR    Sudan's minister for economic planning announced on October 19 that in September, the country's inflation rate was 80 percent, compared with more than 115 percent in September 199  (...)  [33 words]  [FREE]   previous Archive n° 643  - 10/22/1994 next

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