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previous Archive n° 645  - 11/05/1994 next   Francis Soler MOZAMBIQUE Editor in Chief COMFORTABLE VICTORY FOR CHISSANO Mozambique's outgoing head of state Joaquim Chissano is expected to be proclaimed the winner, very probably after ballot-counting for the first run of the multiparty presidential election, held on October 27 to 28, is completed next week. (...)   [1001 words]  [$8.2] POLITICS ETHIOPIA    The official Ethiopian news agency ENA announced on October 31 that the trial of sixty-six top officials of the regime of former head of state Mengistu Haile Mariam would commence in Addis Ababa on December 13.  (...)  [61 words]  [$1.5] KENYA/UGANDA CORALLING CATTLE RUSTLERS    A joint Kenyan-Ugandan inter-ministerial commission to combat cross-border theft and smuggling of livestock met in Eldoret and Kitale (Kenya) on October 28 and 29 and heard a report from the Ugandan delegation (led by deputy local government minister Stephen Chemaiko Chebrot) informing the Kenyan delegation (led by assistant minister, office of the president, Julius Ole Sinkuli) that a recent cross-border raid on a Kenyan farm owned by the parastatal Agricultural Development Corporation had not been carried out by Uganda military but by uncontrolled cattle thieves.  (...)  [244 words]  [$4.7] MAURITIUS POLICE CHIEF'S EXCESS ZEAL    One and a half months after his nomination as police commissioner, one of the most important state posts under the Mauritian constitution (ION N° 637), Raj Dayal set off an unholy row on October 20 by ordering the arrest of the editor-in-chief (Alain Gordon Gentil) and news editor (Harish Chindunsing) of the island's weekly publication Mag.  (...)  [483 words]  [$4.7] MADAGASCAR OPPOSITION ON THE OFFENSIVE    Two opposition parties, the MFM headed by opposition MP Manandafy Rakotonirina and Fihaonana headed by ex-prime minister Guy Willy Razanamasy, are expected to use a political meeting on November 5 to kick off the campaign to oust prime minister Francisque Ravony.  (...)  [578 words]  [$4.7] MOZAMBIQUE COMFORTABLE VICTORY FOR CHISSANO    Mozambique's outgoing head of state Joaquim Chissano is expected to be proclaimed the winner, very probably after ballot-counting for the first run of the multiparty presidential election, held on October 27 to 28, is completed next week.  (...)  [1001 words]  [$8.2] SOMALIA SOMBRE PICTURE OF US INTELLIGENCE    United States Army sources have drawn a pretty sombre picture of the US army's intervention in Somalia as a contingent of UNOSOM.  (...)  [355 words]  [$4.7] SOUTH AFRICA PARIS EYES PRETORIA    France has got to bump up its trade relations with the two leading Anglophone countries in Africa, Nigeria and South Africa, according to the report of the French national assembly's finance commission on the cooperation budget for 1995.  (...)  [416 words]  [$4.7] COMOROS ISLANDS OIL ON TROUBLED SOCIAL WATERS    The Comoros' new prime minister, Halifa Houmadi, who was appointed on October 13 (ION N° 643), has made a move to bring to an end the strike of school teachers and hospital staff, now in its third month, by naming an arbitrator, the education ministry's principal secretary Mbaraca Charif.  (...)  [230 words]  [$4.7] WHO'S WHO SOUTH AFRICA DULLAH OMAR    South Africa's justice minister Dullah Omar, who submitted a government bill at the end of October to restructure the country's civilian secret services (splitting the internal service from the external service) cannot be considered a pure product in the political tradition of the African National Congress led by head of state Nelson Mandela.  (...)  [190 words]  [$4.7] KENYA STEVE MWANGI    The former mayor of Nairobi (ION N° 565) who had resigned in protest against the government blocking him and was then elected to parliament on October 31 in a parliamentary by-election at Starehe, a constituency which includes the heart of Nairobi, Steve Mwangi might well become the acting chairman of the FORD-ASILI opposition party.  (...)  [193 words]  [$4.7] AFRICA/EUROPEAN UNION JOAO DE DEUS PINHEIRO    Portugal's former foreign minister (1987-1992) Joao De Deus Pinheiro has been named European Commissioner for relations with ACP countries and the Republic of South Africa.  (...)  [107 words]  [$4.7] SOUTH AFRICA/REUNION ISLAND GEORGE MICHEL    The possible nomination of George Michel (who is currently chairman of the employers' federation COLIER) as Reunion Island honorary consul to the Republic of South Africa sparked socialist and communist MPs to boycott the trade mission to South Africa which had been organized this week by the island's authorities.  (...)  [155 words]  [$4.7] ECONOMICS ETHIOPIA    Germany decided last month to make available to Ethiopia an assistance programme worth 312 million birr (nearly US$56 million), putting that country top of the list for German assistance  (...)  [40 words]  [FREE] TANZANIA TOKYO TAKES TVZ TO TASK    Japan has suspended all aid to the state-owned Zanzibar television station TVZ following complaints of bias made against the station by Civic United Front (CUF) and other political  (...)  [197 words]  [$4.7] KENYA SHINELESS SHILLINGS    The steady rise of the Kenyan shilling against the US dollar abruptly ground to a halt on October 28. The rate then slumped sharply by 20 percent, sliding from 35.  (...)  [553 words]  [$4.7] ZIMBABWE FRENCH FINANCIAL AID    The seventh protocol of France's financial assistance package for Zimbabwe, worth some FFr.150 million (of which 50 percent is expected to be Treasury loans at preferential interest  (...)  [115 words]  [$4.7] EAST AFRICA AID FOR LAKE VICTORIA FISHERFOLK    The European Development Fund management committee is to consider allocating ECU 8.4 million (US$10.7 million) to a project to improve long-term operation of fisheries in Lake Victoria,  (...)  [287 words]  [$4.7] TANZANIA SEVERAL "MISTER TEN PERCENT"    Four high-ranking government officials (three ministers and a top official of National Provident Fund, NPF) are alleged to have been offered payments amounting to four billion Tanzanian  (...)  [277 words]  [$4.7] SEYCHELLES    The Seychelles government is considering privatizing the state-owned public works enterprise Civil Construction Company Limited:  (...)  [69 words]  [$1.5] SOUTHERN AFRICA POOLING REGIONAL ELECTRICITY    Although progress continues with building an interconnection of the electricity grids of southern African countries, South Africa's state-owned electricity utility ESKOM is working  (...)  [450 words]  [$4.7] SEYCHELLES POOR IS UN-BEAUTIFUL    A World Bank report with the startling title "Poverty in Paradise" slams the "highly unequal" distribution of incomes on the island paradise and says "In 1993, almost 20 percent of  (...)  [225 words]  [$4.7] AFRICA/UNITED KINGDOM BRITISH INITIATIVES    The Tropical Africa Advisory Group (TAAG) from Britain's Department of Trade and Industry led by TAAG chairman Paul Barrett (ION N° 643) made its first visit (October 29 to November  (...)  [360 words]  [$4.7] MAURITIUS    About twenty foreign companies, including France's Cedex and Microkey, have said they plan to set up work by remote-communication on Mauritius as soon as a sufficient number of computer  (...)  [53 words]  [$1.5] NORWAY/TANZANIA    In 1995, Tanzania will still be the principal beneficiary of Norway's development assistance (with NOK 300 million, US$46 million), despite a cut of NOK 40 million (just over $6 million)  (...)  [130 words]  [$1.5] AGENDA COMOROS ISLANDS SAID MOHAMED DJOHAR    Before leaving for France on November first to attend a Franco-African summit at Biarritz, the Comoros head of state did some house-cleaning with MPs in Rassemblement pour la Démocratie  (...)  [90 words]  [$1.5] MAURITIUS MAHEN UTCHANAH    Energy minister Mahen Utchanah was dismissed from his post on October 29 because of his role in the way a contract to supply a gas turbine had been awarded to the Central Electricity  (...)  [67 words]  [$1.5] DJIBOUTI BARAGOITA SAID    The former head of the cattle feed plant in Djibouti and three other Afar middle managers (Cassim Haroun, Habib Chechem, Said Kamil) were arrested by police on October 31.  (...)  [79 words]  [$1.5] EAST AFRICA/UNITED KINGDOM DOUGLAS HURD    Britain's foreign secretary will begin a week-long swing on November 7 which will take him through Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda.  (...)  [26 words]  [FREE] SEYCHELLES FRANCE ALBERT RENE    The Seychelles' head of state will not be going to the Franco-African summit at Biarritz on November 7 and 8.  (...)  [72 words]  [$1.5]   previous Archive n° 645  - 11/05/1994 next

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