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Francis Soler
REUNION ISLAND Editor in Chief
BALLADUR'S TRAVELS
The trip to sunny Reunion Island and Mayotte by French prime minister Edouard Balladur and three members of his government on November 24 to 26 is one more instalment in the increasingly rasping face-off between the prime minister and the mayor of Paris Jacques Chirac in the run-up to the 1995 presidential election. (...)   [987 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS
COMOROS ISLANDS
BLUNT SPEAKING BY THE PREMIER
   Prime minister Halifa Houmadi considerably irritated political friends and supporters in Rassemblement pour la Démocratie et le Renouveau (RDR, presidential majority) in an interview in the Moroni-based newspaper L'Archipel last week, when he confessed that during the recent government changes, he had felt "embarrassed by the reappointment of ministers Said Mohamed Sagaf [foreign affairs] and Ibrahim Hissane [transport], both of whom had failed in their responsibilities in the previous government of Mohamed Abdou".  (...)  [288 words]   [$7]
SOMALILAND
SITUATION IS VERY CONFUSED
   The situation remained confused all this week in Hargeisa where fighting had been reported on the night of November 14-15 (ION N° 647).  (...)  [249 words]   [$7]
REUNION ISLAND
BALLADUR'S TRAVELS
   The trip to sunny Reunion Island and Mayotte by French prime minister Edouard Balladur and three members of his government on November 24 to 26 is one more instalment in the increasingly rasping face-off between the prime minister and the mayor of Paris Jacques Chirac in the run-up to the 1995 presidential election.  (...)  [987 words]   [$11,2]
MAURITIUS
PARLIAMENT GETTING TOUGHER
   Opposition MPs walked out of a parliamentary session on November 22 to protest against the refusal of the government to answer parliamentary questions tabled by former foreign minister (now on the Opposition benches) Paul Berenger.  (...)  [572 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
ZANZIBAR PRESIDENT AND THE UNION
   The constitution of the Tanzanian Union is expected to be, once again, at the heart of a lively parliamentary debate on the prerogatives of the president of Zanzibar after the 1995 presidential election.  (...)  [344 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
   The legal appeal introduced by lawyers of Jean Michel Pouchelle, the local representative of the French NGO SOS Africa, and due to be heard in Djibouti on November 23 has now been postponed one week on the grounds that the Djibouti appeals court considers the recent heavy rains in Djibouti have made the hearing impossible.  (...)  [157 words]   [$2,1]
SUDAN
ARMY DEFEAT IN EQUATORIA
   The Sudanese army has suffered several defeats in the area of Mongalla and Terakeka, north of Juba, in Equatoria Province.  (...)  [269 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
NYERERE BOOK GOING GREAT GUNS
   The book written by Tanzania's former head of state Julius Nyerere and published by Zimbabwe Publishing House at the beginning of November under the title "Our leadership and future of the union" is a roaring success in Tanzania (ION N° 644).  (...)  [268 words]   [$7]
ZIMBABWE
   An outline agreement has ben signed by the Zimbabwean secretary of state for foreign affairs Stanislaus Chigwedere and South Korea's ambassador to Zimbabwe Jin-Ho Kim, to establish diplomatic relations between the two countries as from December 18.  (...)  [153 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE/ZIMBABWE
INCREASED FRONTIER CRIME
   According to Zimbabwe's commander of Manicaland Province, senior assistant commissioner Ngonidzashe Gumbo, eighteen cases of serious crimes including murder and theft at gunpoint were perpetrated along the 1,000-km long frontier with Mozambique in October and November 1994.  (...)  [141 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
TWO SUSPECTS RELEASED
   Judge Roger Le Loire, the Paris magistrate charged with investigating the terrorist attack on Djibouti's Cafe de Paris on September 27, 1990, is due to go there very shortly to interrogate suspects in the case.  (...)  [198 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
BARGAINING STRENGTH OF RENAMO
   Outgoing head of state Joaquim Chissano was officially designated on November 18 as the first-round winner of the presidential election, polling 53.  (...)  [453 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
   The Comoros' embassies in Cairo, Djeddah, New York and Paris have been in a financially precarious situation for several months:  (...)  [127 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
   A ministerial meeting of the countries concerned will take place on Mauritius in February 1995 on the project to constitute an economic bloc of countries on the Indian Ocean, under the title Indian Ocean Rim.  (...)  [56 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE
MACHIVENYIKA T. MAPURANGA
   Zimbabwe's Machivenyika T. Mapuranga, who is assistant to the present secretary general of Organization of African Unity Salim Ahmed Salim, is the fourth candidate to apply for the post of secretary general of ACP (the group of African, Caribbean and Pacific countries linked to the European Union through the Lome Convention).  (...)  [251 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
RUHAKANA RUGUNDA
   Ugandan head of state Yoweri Museveni rejigged the government on November 18 and named Kintu Musoke as prime minister in place of Cosmus Adyebo, and switched Democratic Party (DP, Christian democratic) leader Paul Ssemogerere from foreign affairs minister to public works minister.  (...)  [251 words]   [$7]
REUNION ISLAND
PIERRE STEINMETZ
   Just hours before French prime minister Edouard Balladur arrived on Reunion Island, the territory's senior civil servant, prefect Hubert Fournier, was replaced by Pierre Steinmetz, until then prefect of the Haute Savoie department and before of the Pyrénées Orientales.  (...)  [119 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS
MAURITIUS
   A consortium of three major Mauritian industrial groups is studying a project to set up a export processing zone at the international airport.  (...)  [52 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
   Shirt manufacturer New Island Clothing (a joint venture of the Mauritian group CIEL and the British group Coats Viyella) is considering opening up a production unit on Madagascar.  (...)  [33 words]   [FREE]
ERITREA
ACCELERATED EDF AID
   The European Development Fund (EDF) has allocated ECU 20 million (US$24.5 million) to an emergency aid programme for Eritrea. The greater part of the programme (ECU 9 million) will  (...)  [200 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
ELECTORAL BILL FOR RENAMO
   The Portuguese company Documentos & Eventos (D&E), which worked out the strategy of RENAMO's electoral campaign and then supervised its execution, does not know which way to turn to  (...)  [173 words]   [$7]
REUNION ISLAND
   Representatives of Comité de Liaisons Economiques de La Réunion (COLIER, the local employers' federation) did not oppose voting on budget orientation submitted by the chairman of Chambre  (...)  [106 words]   [$2,1]
SEYCHELLES
   The Seychelles government is considering liberalizing the taxi and car rental sectors, by abolishing the present quota system.  (...)  [89 words]   [$2,1]
SEYCHELLES
NEW ATTEMPT IN OFFSHORE BUSINESS
   Legislation to control the operation of an International Business Centre is to be tabled before the Seychelles' national assembly sometime during December.  (...)  [146 words]   [$7]
ZIMBABWE
POOR OUTLOOK FOR TEXTILES
   After a boom over the past few years, Zimbabwe's textile industry is now seeing a sharp decline which is likely to get worse next year, according to the chairman of Central African  (...)  [187 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
MIXED BAG OF AIRLINE PROJECTS
   A delegation from the Middle East airline Gulf Air was in Moroni last week to examine the Comoros capital's international airport installations before having any of its aircraft try  (...)  [377 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
DEBTS AGAINST CONCESSIONS
   Several specialist companies have begun buyback operations on Malagasy commercial debt at very sharp discount rates, in order to negotiate later with the Antananarivo government to  (...)  [306 words]   [$7]
REUNION ISLAND
   France's Comité de Pilotage de l'Industrie de La Réunion (CPI) is to organize a conference in Paris on December first on the theme "Reunion Island:  (...)  [80 words]   [$2,1]

AGENDA
ERITREA/ETHIOPIA
OSMAN SALEH
   Eritrea's education minister Osman Saleh and his Ethiopian opposite number Genet Zawde have signed a protocol of agreement in Addis Ababa under which the two ministries agree to harmonize  (...)  [59 words]   [$2,1]
ZIMBABWE
DAVID COOK
   The World Bank's new resident representative in Zimbabwe has told the Harare government to cut expenditure and has warned it that it seems very unlikely that the Bank's consultative  (...)  [126 words]   [$2,1]
CHINA/SUDAN
HUSSEIN SULEIMAN ABOU SALEH
   On his return from China, Sudan's foreign minister told the Arab-language daily Al Hayat on November 23 that the Beijing government had promised to help Sudan in international organizations  (...)  [71 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA/UGANDA
DANIEL ARAB MOI
   The Kenyan head of state announced on November 22 that when he meets with his Ugandan opposite number Yoweri Museveni in Kampala the following weekend, he will raise the problems of  (...)  [43 words]   [FREE]
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