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Francis Soler
TANZANIA Editor in Chief
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IN CCM
With just under a year to go to the presidential elections in October 1995, the problem of who to nominate for the party's presidential ticket is a real headache for Chama cha Mapidunzi (CCM), the government party. The constitution forbids the present head of state, Ali Hassan Mwinyi, from standing again and the most likely candidates to succeed him appear to be the CCM deputy chairman John Malecela (who is also prime minister and first deputy president of Tanzania), and the CCM secretary general (and minister in the president's office) Horace Kolimba. (...)   [799 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS
SOMALIA
A TASK FORCE FOR BOUTROS-GHALI
   United Nations secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali has called on France, Great Britain, Italy and the United States to set up a task force assigned to act as rear guard and protect the withdrawal of the 15,000 members of contingents in UNOSOM2 still deployed in Somalia.  (...)  [362 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
BRITTANY TO THE RESCUE
   Yvon Bourges, a former French defence minister who is now deputy chairman of the Senate commission on foreign affairs, defence and the armed forces, arrived in Cape Town on November 2 on a week-long stay, accompanied by socialist MP (and mayor of the port of Lorient) Jean Yves Le Drian.  (...)  [507 words]   [$7]
REUNION ISLAND
COLIER GOES GUNNING FOR CCIR
   The employers' federation Comité de Liaisons Economiques de la Réunion (COLIER) headed by George Michel (ION N° 645), the Reunion Island branch of the French employers' federation Centre National du Patronat Français, wants to regain the chairmanship of Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de la Réunion (CCIR) when local delegate elections are held on November 21.  (...)  [514 words]   [$7]
ERITREA
OPINION ON CONSTITUTION FROM ELF
   Bereket Habte Selassie, chairman of the commission which the Eritrean government has charged with drawing up a draft constitution, says members of the commission recently had meetings with leaders of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) faction led by Ahmed Nasser, who promised they would submit their own proposals for Eritrea's future constitution.  (...)  [227 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
TRYING TO GET THEM INTO STEP
   Ethiopian police moved in on November 4 to halt a trade union meeting and officially seal off the union's offices following the call by Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions (CETU) president Dawi Ibrahim to convene a general assembly, a move contested by some union members.  (...)  [522 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
   The Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia (IFLO) says that over the past two months, its units have carried out "dozens" of military operations against government units of Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), capturing several small towns like Ramisin in the region of Kombolcha, and Genemi and Burka in the region of Garamuleta.  (...)  [120 words]   [$2,1]
TANZANIA
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IN CCM
   With just under a year to go to the presidential elections in October 1995, the problem of who to nominate for the party's presidential ticket is a real headache for Chama cha Mapidunzi (CCM), the government party. The constitution forbids the present head of state, Ali Hassan Mwinyi, from standing again and the most likely candidates to succeed him appear to be the CCM deputy chairman John Malecela (who is also prime minister and first deputy president of Tanzania), and the CCM secretary general (and minister in the president's office) Horace Kolimba.  (...)  [799 words]   [$11,2]
MOZAMBIQUE
BALLOT RESULT SPLITS RENAMO
   RENAMO was still rocking on its heels November 8, undecided and divided, over the stand to take on the results of the October 27-29 elections which gave Joaquim Chissano and his FRELIMO party victory (ION N° 645).  (...)  [351 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
A PRESIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT
   Outgoing head of state Joaquim Chissano will be able to fulfill his secret dream of being re-elected with distinctly more votes than his party, FRELIMO.  (...)  [414 words]   [$7]
ERITREA/ETHIOPIA
   The situation of the conflicting relations between Sudan and Uganda and negotiations being attempted to end the civil war in southern Sudan were the principal subjects discussed at meetings of French foreign ministry officials and the heads of state of Eritrea (Issayas Afeworki) and Ethiopia (Meles Zenawi) during this week's Franco-African summit in Biarritz (France).  (...)  [60 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
CONSTITUTIONAL DEBATE LAUNCHED
   Representatives of Law Society of Kenya, Kenya Human Rights Commission and the Kenya section of International Commission of Jurists published a proposal for a model constitution in Nairobi on November 3.  (...)  [467 words]   [$7]

WHO'S WHO
MOZAMBIQUE
OPPOSITION MINISTERS
   Members of the political opposition who stand a chance of becoming ministers in the new government of re-elected head of state Joaquim Chissano include the leader of Monamo, Maximo Dias, who was also a Alliança Patriotica candidate for the presidential election.  (...)  [345 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
RONALD MUTEBI
   The Kabaka of Uganda, Ronald Mutebi, who was crowned last year (ION N° 568), left Uganda on October 18 or 19 in great secrecy.  (...)  [178 words]   [$7]
ZIMBABWE
ANDRIES RUKOBO
   The head of Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies Andries Rukobo and five other experts have drafted a report for ZANU-PF on the promotion of Blacks in Zimbabwe.  (...)  [167 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
VINCENT RAGUE
   The Kenyan economist Vincent Rague is to be the first resident representative in South Africa for the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank subsidiary specializing in loans to the private sector.  (...)  [109 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS
MAURITIUS
   A representative of France's Compagnie Générale des Eaux, Michel Pille, was on mission on Mauritius last month lobbying the local authorities not to sign the contract privatizing drinking  (...)  [78 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
   The European Investment Bank (EIB) on November 3 authorized a loan of ECU 40 million (US$48 million) to the Mozambique government and to the utility Hidroelectrica de Cabora Bassa  (...)  [76 words]   [$2,1]
ZIMBABWE
TWO COUGARS FOR THE ARMY
   The Franco-German company Eurocopter (a subsidiary of France's Aérospatiale with 70 percent and Deutsche Aerospace with 30 percent) and Zimbabwe's ministry of defence have signed a  (...)  [260 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
PROJECTS FOR SUDATEL
   Sudan's newly-created privately-owned telecommunications company Sudatel is busy opening envelopes with offers from several foreign enterprises, following its last two Calls for b  (...)  [193 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
   Over recent months, the Bank of Uganda (the country's central bank) has been discreetly withdrawing whole wads of one-thousand shilling banknotes from circulation.  (...)  [110 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA
TRADE OFFENSIVE FROM PARIS
   Paris wants to reduce its trade deficit with Uganda (FFr.29 million in 1993) in order to reach equilibrium in 1995 and to see a positive balance in 1996, by a protocol of financial  (...)  [300 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
NOVEL PACKAGE FOR SONGO SONGO
   On the occasion of the conference on energy in Africa, held in Cape Town (Republic of South Africa) last month, Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) MD Yonah Samuel Mohamed  (...)  [455 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
COMMENT BY SOMAPECHE
   The management of Société Malgache de Pêcheries (SOMAPECHE) has contacted The Indian Ocean Newsletter regarding the Editorial published in ION N° 640 of October 1, 1994 under the title  (...)  [388 words]   [$7]

AGENDA
GERMANY/ERITREA
ANDE BIRHAN WALDE GIORGIS
   The head of Eritrea's central bank went to Stuttgart (Germany) last month to meet his German opposite number, Hans Meyer.  (...)  [57 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI
JEAN MICHEL POUCHELLE
   A voluntary association of lawyers has been set up in France to assist Frenchman Jean Michel Pouchelle, of the NGO SOS Africa, who has been sentenced to six months in jail in Djib  (...)  [91 words]   [$2,1]
SOMALIA
OSMAN ATO
   The personal treasurer to general Mohamed Farah Aideed, the leader of Somali national Alliance, who is a member of the Saad sub-clan of the Hawiye tribe like Aideed, was hospitalized  (...)  [67 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE/UNITED NATIONS
ALDO AJELLO
   The United Nations special representative in Mozambique is reportedly so furious with the winner of the presidential election, Joaquim Chissano, and his entourage that he intends to  (...)  [91 words]   [$2,1]
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