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Francis Soler
SEYCHELLES Editor in Chief
TOUGH PRIVATIZATION
The biggest and juiciest piece of The Seychelles' privatization programme, which has already dealt with port companies (and will also concern others such as Arômes de l'Océan Indien, Civil Construction Company Limited, Electronic Seychelles Limited, and Penlac), will be handing over the state-owned firm Conserveries de l'Océan Indien (COI) to the private sector. (...)   [679 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS
ERITREA/SUDAN
TEMPERS FRAYING AGAIN
   An Eritrean foreign ministry report released in Addis Ababa last week accuses Sudan of having trained more than seven hundred terrorists since August who are now ready to go on the offensive inside Eritrea.  (...)  [511 words]   [$7]
ERITREA
TOE-THE-LINE TERMS FOR NGOS
   The head of the Eritrean Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (ERRA), Naryo Tekle, recently spelled out the three principal conditions laid down by the government in Asmara for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in Eritrea (and now totalling twenty-six).  (...)  [162 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
DJOHAR HAS IT OUT OVER ISRAEL
   Returning to Moroni on November 22 from the Franco-African summit in Biarritz (France), head of state Said Mohamed Djohar went on state radio two days later to explain just why he had decided, in Paris on November 10, to establish diplomatic relations between his country and Israel (ION N° 647).  (...)  [252 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
   According to the Saudi daily Al Sharq Al Awsat of November 29, tension between Djibouti and Yemen sharpened after the Yemeni government demanded the return of three Yemeni military aircraft believed to be on Djibouti territory, although the Djibouti authorities deny this fact.  (...)  [48 words]   [$2,1]
REUNION ISLAND
   The secretary of Parti Communiste Réunionnais (PCR), Jean Saint-Marc, contacted The Indian Ocean Newsletter on November 29 and 30 to protest vigorously against the interpretation (in ION N° 648) of his party's policy for the French presidential election, and to threaten ION with a law suit for defamation.  (...)  [222 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
CALL OF THE WILD
   Madagascar's two main parliamentary opposition groups (Manandafy Rakotonirina's MFM and ex-prime minister Guy Razanamasy's Fihaonana) are now into their third week of campaigning for the government to resign (ION N° 645).  (...)  [374 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
INSECURITY IN THE EAST
   Two recent developments have confirmed claims by both members of the Ethiopian opposition and military communiques of several armed opposition groups regarding the insecurity of conditions in Ethiopia's eastern region.  (...)  [152 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
MALIMA ON THE SPOT
   Since Tanzania's head of state Ali Hassan Mwinyi called, under pressure from fund donors, for postponement of the World Bank's consultative group on Tanzania, initially scheduled for last month in Paris (ION N° 647), finance minister Kighoma Malima has been on the spot.  (...)  [261 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
SOARES ANNOYS CHISSANO
   Mozambique's newly re-elected head of state Joaquim Chissano has taken umbrage over a recent letter from his Portuguese opposite number Mario Soares and Portugal's first lady, Maria Barroso, counselling the Mozambican president to include members of the political opposition in his new government.  (...)  [305 words]   [$7]
ZIMBABWE
STUDENTS' ANTI-WHITE FURY
   In a strongly-worded letter to the Attorney General and the Zimbabwe parliament, the president of the University of Zimbabwe student representative council, Obey Mudzingwa has called for "a speedy guilty verdict" on a Scottish-born anaesthetist, Dr.  (...)  [397 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
HEADING FOR BYE-ELECTIONS
   A stormy parliamentary session on November 29 ended up with Paul Berenger, leader of Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM, opposition) and Jean Claude De L'Estrac, secretary general of Renouveau Militant Mauricien (RMM, breakaway faction of MMM which remained in government), both resigning as MPs.  (...)  [406 words]   [$7]
KENYA
ALL PALS TOGETHER IN LONDON
   The visit to London last month of Kenya's head of state Daniel arap Moi and the meetings he had with British prime minister John Major and foreign secretary Douglas Hurd clearly illustrate the bright diplomatic relationship between Kenya and Great Britain, after the cold war front sparked by the Robert Ouko affair (ION N° 419) and the suspension of international aid to Nairobi three years ago.  (...)  [457 words]   [$7]

WHO'S WHO
SOUTH AFRICA/NETHERLANDS
ZACH DE BEER
   The former leader of South Africa's Democratic Party is expected to become the country's next ambassador to The Netherlands. The career of Dr.  (...)  [211 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA/UNITED KINGDOM
AZIZ PAHAD
   South Africa's current deputy foreign minister Aziz Pahad is well placed to become the country's next ambassador to Great Britain.  (...)  [222 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI/FRANCE
JEAN MICHEL POUCHELLE
   The Djibouti Appeal Court on November 30 confirmed and in fact increased the sentence on Jean Michel Pouchelle (ION N° 646), adding another two months detention (to make eight months in all).  (...)  [183 words]   [$7]
UNITED STATES/ZIMBABWE
JOHNNIE CARSON
   The United States former ambassador to Uganda, Johnnie Carson, has been appointed as the new ambassador to Zimbabwe, taking over from Gibson Lanpher.  (...)  [140 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS
SOUTH AFRICA/SUDAN
   South African agriculture minister Dr. Kraai Van Niekerk, a member of F.  (...)  [121 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
MANUEL CONFIDES TO ACP
   Speaking in Brussels on November 29 to the ACP council of ministers (the countries of Africa, the Caribbean, and Pacific with links to the European Union), South African minister of  (...)  [371 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
STATE HIKES SALARIES
   Ethiopia's transitional government announced last month that it had introduced salary increases for all government employees retrospective to November 15, which will be most advantageous  (...)  [234 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
LUCRATIVE LUCK FOR MAZULA
   Businessman Ventura Mazula, who heads the North American-based trading firm Zambeze Trading Company, looks like being awarded a profitable government contract to deliver yellow maize  (...)  [174 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
   Government expenditure for 1995 should be around 957 million rupees (US$192 million), down by 15 percent on the previous year's figures, according to the finance ministry.  (...)  [168 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
   The World Bank's consultative group on Kenya will meet in Paris on December 15 and 16.  (...)  [21 words]   [FREE]
ERITREA
   Eritrean foreign minister Petros Solomon left Asmara on November 27 for a tour of Europe.  (...)  [57 words]   [$2,1]
ZIMBABWE
   The mechanisms of Zimbabwe's foreign trade are due to be crunched through the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade inspection during a meeting in Geneva on December 1 and 2.  (...)  [35 words]   [FREE]
MADAGASCAR
REJIGGING ADB FUNDS
   The African Development Bank (ADB) is to allocate US$50 million to Madagascar which has become available following the re-allocation of some earlier loans or the cancellation of loans  (...)  [478 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
TOUGH PRIVATIZATION
   The biggest and juiciest piece of The Seychelles' privatization programme, which has already dealt with port companies (and will also concern others such as Arômes de l'Océan Indien,  (...)  [679 words]   [$11,2]

AGENDA
ETHIOPIA
TAMRAT LAYNE
   The Ethiopian prime minister appealed on November 30 for the opposition to participate in the elections planned for next year.  (...)  [77 words]   [$2,1]
REUNION ISLAND
JACQUES CHIRAC
   Paris mayor (and an MP of Rassemblement pour la République, the senior member of the government coalition) Jacques Chirac is to visit Reunion Island on December 19.  (...)  [42 words]   [FREE]
MAURITIUS/RUSSIA
AGARON N. KALAEVITCH ASSATOUR
   Russia's new ambassador to Mauritius, Agaron N. Kalaevitch Assatour, has presented his Letters of Credence to head of state Cassam Uteem.  (...)  [54 words]   [$2,1]
SOMALILAND
MOUSSA BIHI
   Relations are turning sour between Somaliland's president Mohamed Ibrahim Egal and his interior minister colonel Moussa Bihi.  (...)  [106 words]   [$2,1]
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