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previous Archive n° 650  - 12/10/1994 next   Francis Soler ERITREA Editor in Chief RUPTURE WITH KHARTOUM Eritrea's decision on December 5 to break diplomatic relations with its neighbour Sudan is a clear expression of Asmara's profound fears of what its leaders privately refer to as "Sudan's Islamic and imperialistic ambitions". (...)   [600 words]  [$8.2] POLITICS UGANDA KAMPALA TO CLEAN OUT NORTHERN REBELS    According to diplomatic sources in Kampala, units of the government-supporting National Resistance Army (NRA) equipped with heavy arms are being deployed along the Ugandan-Sudanese frontier.  (...)  [239 words]  [$4.7] DJIBOUTI DO NOT PASS "GO"    It was virtually a case of Monopoly's "Go directly to jail" for the two men charged over the terrorist attack on the Café de Paris in Djibouti on September 27, 1990.  (...)  [387 words]  [$4.7] UGANDA ARMY MAY FACE A SOUTHERN ALERT    Head of state Yoweri Museveni has threatened to send in the army to tame a possible rebellion against the government in Mpigi District, in the south, where some reports say opponents are getting ready to go on the offensive.  (...)  [314 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA MEETING THE OPPOSITION IN ADDIS    The Council of Alternative Forces for Peace and Democracy (CAFPD, opposition) united more than 100,000 people (but more than 250,000 according to the organizers) at a political meeting held in Addis Ababa on December 4 to protest against the constituent assembly's adoption of several controversial articles in the country's new constitution.  (...)  [455 words]  [$4.7] SUDAN SURPRISE ATTACK    Malakal was the target of a brief but vicious mortar attack on December 2 followed by close-range fighting with light arms, according to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter.  (...)  [279 words]  [$4.7] ERITREA RUPTURE WITH KHARTOUM    Eritrea's decision on December 5 to break diplomatic relations with its neighbour Sudan is a clear expression of Asmara's profound fears of what its leaders privately refer to as "Sudan's Islamic and imperialistic ambitions".  (...)  [600 words]  [$8.2] ETHIOPIA SINKING WITHOUT A BUBBLE    The arbitration on Ethiopia undertaken by three members of the US Democratic Party (chairman of the House Sub-Committee on African Affairs Harry Johnston of Florida, assisted by congressmen Donald M.  (...)  [304 words]  [$4.7] DJIBOUTI    According to an Arab diplomatic source in New York, the United States is believed to have asked the Djibouti delegate to the United Nations Security Council to table a draft resolution calling for the creation of safety zones in southern Sudan, so that local populations could shelter from Sudanese army harassment.  (...)  [98 words]  [$1.5] MOZAMBIQUE CHURCH, LADY AND PRESIDENT    Head of state Joaquim Chissano has already managed to get his own back in his diplomatic difference of opinion with Senhora Maria Barroso, the wife of Portuguese head of state Mario Soares, by inviting only president Soares to the official investiture of Mozambique's incoming president, scheduled to be held in Maputo on December 9.  (...)  [369 words]  [$4.7] TANZANIA A PARTY OF MUSICAL CHAIRS    Head of state Ali Hassan Mwinyi appointed Cleopa Msuya as the new prime minister on December 5 after dissolving parliament the previous day.  (...)  [175 words]  [$4.7] ZIMBABWE TEA FOR TWO BUT CHAIRS FOR ONE    The bye-election scheduled for December 19 and 20 in the distant district of Chipinge South, in the south-eastern corner of the country, looks like producing a very heated political battle with the Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole standing as candidate.  (...)  [166 words]  [$4.7] DJIBOUTI TALKS - AD INFINITUM    After pausing for a month, peace talks between the Djibouti government and Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD) headed by Ali Mohamed Daoud dit Jean Marie and Ougoureh Kifleh Ahmed were due to have resumed this week.  (...)  [486 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA    Delegates to the European Union / ACP conference of social partners (in Brussels, November 30 - December 2) passed a declaration protesting against the Ethiopian government's decision to prevent the Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions chairman Dawe Ibrahim from leaving Addis Ababa to attend the meeting.  (...)  [51 words]  [$1.5] WHO'S WHO ETHIOPIA GEBRAY BERHANE    Ethiopia's candidate for the post of secretary general of the ACP (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific) group, Gebray Berhane, who is also the incumbent, was knocked out in the first round of voting on December 2.  (...)  [211 words]  [$4.7] COMOROS ISLANDS MUSTAPHA SHEIKH    The secretary general of Front Démocratique (opposition) Mustapha Sheikh was attacked in Moroni on November 28 by lieutenant Fakhri Mradabi, the son of colonel Mradabi, the powerful head of Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures.  (...)  [145 words]  [$4.7] MADAGASCAR RASOLOSOA DOLIN    Madagascar's government promoted nine army colonels to the rank of general, including general (engineers) Rasolosoa Dolin, who has also been appointed chief of the army general staff.  (...)  [188 words]  [$4.7] SOUTH AFRICA/ZIMBABWE KINGSLEY MAMABOLO    Former African National Congress representative in Zimbabwe Kingsley Mamabolo has been appointed South African High Commissioner to Zimbabwe. He will take up his new duties in Harare early in January.  (...)  [97 words]  [$4.7] ECONOMICS REUNION ISLAND/SEYCHELLES GROUNDING AIR FRANCE    The French national airline Air France could abandon its Seychelles / Reunion Island route towards the middle of next year if its three weekly flights from Paris to the Indian Ocean  (...)  [214 words]  [$4.7] SOUTH AFRICA MBEKI WRITES TO KINKEL    A letter from South Africa's first deputy president Thabo Mbeki to the current president of the European Union's council of ministers (and German foreign minister) Klaus Kinkel on  (...)  [362 words]  [$4.7] UGANDA    The Bank of Uganda is to issue new 500 and 1,000 shilling banknotes, which will progressively replace existing ones.  (...)  [93 words]  [$1.5] SUDAN    The International Monetary Fund agreed, on December 7, to reschedule Sudan's debt, amounting to US$1.  (...)  [89 words]  [$1.5] SOUTHERN AFRICA    The first-ever summit of the Common Market of East and Southern Africa (COMESA) opened in Lilongwe, Malawi, on December 7.  (...)  [72 words]  [$1.5] ETHIOPIA    Ethiopian Shipping Lines has put the SS Star of Massawa, currently in dock in Djibouti, up for sale.  (...)  [46 words]  [$1.5] KENYA DONORS CALL THE TUNE, SET THE TONE    The dominant tone of the World Bank consultative group on Kenya, scheduled in Paris on December 15 and 16, is expected to be encouragement for Kenya to press on with its reform ef  (...)  [325 words]  [$4.7] AFRICA    According to Romolo Arena, deputy chairman of Instituto de Riconstruzione Industriale, two of the group's companies (STREAM and Società di Telecomunicazione) are studying a project  (...)  [95 words]  [$1.5] MAURITIUS SULZER TURNS TO EIB    New Sulzer Diesel France (NSDF), which lost out (to a Scandinavian-Japanese consortium, Denmark's Burmeister & Wein Scandinavian Contractors and Japan's Mitsui) in the Mauritian Central  (...)  [162 words]  [$4.7] MADAGASCAR MONEY NEEDS FOR 1994-1996    The World Bank has calculated Madagascar's gross cash needs for the period 1994-1995 at around US$5.2 billion, including $1.2 billion for servicing external debt, $760 million for  (...)  [275 words]  [$4.7] AGENDA SUDAN OMAR NOUR ALDAYEM    The secretary general of Oumma, the movement headed by former Sudanese prime minister Sadiq al-Mahdi, has completed a regional tour which took him to Addis Ababa, Asmara, Kampala and  (...)  [48 words]  [$1.5] ETHIOPIA MENGISTU HAILE MARIAM    In a telephone interview with The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Ethiopia's former head of state, who has been living in exile in Zimbabwe since 1991, systematically denied all charges laid  (...)  [152 words]  [$1.5] UGANDA LIVINGSTONE MPALANYI-NKOYOYO    The bishop of Mukono diocese, in the eastern part of the country, was chosen by his peers this week to become the new Anglican archbishop in Uganda.  (...)  [40 words]  [FREE]   previous Archive n° 650  - 12/10/1994 next

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