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previous Archive n° 651  - 12/17/1994 next   Francis Soler TANZANIA Editor in Chief IMF SHOWS A TOUGH GRIP Fund donors for Tanzania attending an informal meeting in Paris on December 14 decided to leave it to the International Monetary Fund to decide on releasing international aid to that country. (...)   [556 words]  [$8.2] POLITICS ETHIOPIA ANOTHER OROMO MOVEMENT    The existence of an Oromo People's Liberation Front (OPLF) has been revealed by the publication in London this week of the new organization's political programme, which calls for the abolition of "colonial administration within Ethiopia" and the edification of an independent state in Oromia.  (...)  [399 words]  [$4.7] ERITREA ASMARA VERSUS JIHAD    Eritrea's foreign minister Petros Solomon used his recent diplomatic tour of Europe (France, Germany, The Netherlands) to confirm that an armed conflict had occurred "in central Eritrea" during the second half of November between units of the Eritrean army and a group of Islamic militants backed by Sudan (ION N° 650).  (...)  [551 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA    Ethiopia's deputy labour and social affairs minister Deste W. Mariam has informed the nine trade unions which belong to the Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions that CETU registration was revoked on December 6.  (...)  [92 words]  [$1.5] BELGIUM/SOMALIA BELGIAN PARAS MARCHED INTO COURT    One year after the Belgian army contingent in UNOSOM left Kisimayo, the trial of eight paratroops charged with grave offences against Somali civilians opened before a court martial in Belgium on December 13.  (...)  [240 words]  [$4.7] DJIBOUTI RETURN TO FRANCE AND PRISON    France has finally completed negotiations for Frenchman Jean Michel Pouchelle to serve in a French prison the remainder of the eight-month sentence passed on him in a Djibouti court for illegally entering that country.  (...)  [319 words]  [$4.7] SOMALILAND CIVILIANS QUITTING HARGEISA    Latest fighting in Hargeisa on December 4 has still not allowed government forces loyal to president Ibrahim Mohamed Egal to dislodge opponents in the Force III Idagalle who have been fighting since November 15 (ION N° 648).  (...)  [173 words]  [$4.7] SEYCHELLES SMACK ON THE NOSE    Regar, the only non-government weekly newspaper to publish regularly since the Seychelles introduced a multi-party system in 1992, announced this week that it was suspending publication after losing a libel case.  (...)  [256 words]  [$4.7] COMOROS ISLANDS    The maiden flight of head of state Said Mohamed Djohar's newly-acquired presidential aircraft was not a model of its kind.  (...)  [118 words]  [$1.5] SUDAN ALL CHANGE    A grand diplomatic shake-out is being whipped up in Khartoum: Sudan's ambassadors in Rome (Abdallah Mohamed Ahmed), Washington (Ahmed Suleiman), Vienna (Ahmed Khalid), Bonn (Abdulrahman Mohamed Said), and Lagos (El-Tigani Saleh) are expected to be recalled over the next few months.  (...)  [143 words]  [$4.7] SOMALIA    The Arab League secretariat in Cairo issued a call on December 10 for an urgent meeting of the League's committee dealing with Somalia (Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Yemen).  (...)  [159 words]  [$1.5] MOZAMBIQUE LATEST GUESSES    Head of state Joaquim Chissano announced this week that 80 percent of his cabinet had already been chosen and the full list would be published on December 16.  (...)  [242 words]  [$4.7] WHO'S WHO SOUTH AFRICA/UNITED KINGDOM MENDI MSIMANG    In the end, the man chosen to be South Africa's new ambassador to Britain is Mendi Msimang, a member of the African National Congress executive committee close to ANC chairman Oliver Tambo, with the other possible candidate being deputy foreign minister Aziz Pahad (ION N° 649).  (...)  [181 words]  [$4.7] COMOROS ISLANDS SAID MOHAMED SAGAF    Comoros foreign minister Said Mohamed Sagaf is awaited impatiently in Moroni by a parliamentary commission which has been waiting several weeks to question him on several sensitive subjects (including the Rowland Ashley/Air Comores affair, the contested establishment of diplomatic relations with Israel, and so on).  (...)  [207 words]  [$4.7] ZIMBABWE DAVIDSON SADZA    The chairman of Mass Media Trust (a state-owned organization which controls Zimbabwe's leading daily newspapers, several weeklies, and the wire service Ziana), Davidson Sadza, has left the post he has held since 1981.  (...)  [135 words]  [$4.7] SOUTH AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE MANGISHI ZITHA    The former chief minister of KwaNgwane Bantustan, Mangishi Zitha, has been named South African ambassador to Mozambique. An official in the bantustan's former party Inyandza National Movement which approached the African National Congress after flirting for a time with the Inkhata Freedom Party headed by Zulu chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Mangishi Zitha and his community in Eastern Transvaal have very active trade relations with the southern region of Mozambique.  (...)  [137 words]  [$4.7] ECONOMICS MAYOTTE ISLAND    The European Union is to consider financing an interconnection project for drinking water supplies in the north-eastern and north-western sectors of Mayotte Island, via a credit line  (...)  [60 words]  [$1.5] DJIBOUTI/ETHIOPIA    Acting with considerable delay on the original timetable, Caisse Française de Développement at last decided in early December to grant a subsidy of FFr.  (...)  [104 words]  [$1.5] ZIMBABWE GOOD, EXCEPT FOR THE BAD BITS    Members of the management council of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in Geneva who recently went through Zimbabwe's trading policies with a fine comb sent the government  (...)  [366 words]  [$4.7] ZIMBABWE    The World Bank consultative group on Zimbabwe will meet in Paris sometime during February, a similar meeting on Ethiopia will be held there at the beginning of March, and the fund  (...)  [48 words]  [$1.5] UGANDA AND HIS CUP SPILLETH OVER    An International Monetary Fund data on Ugandan coffee production show that increased world coffee prices will bring Uganda nearly US$300 million more revenue than last year, or the  (...)  [457 words]  [$4.7] DJIBOUTI    The parastatal Caisse Française de Développement has granted Djibouti a subsidy of FFr.  (...)  [71 words]  [$1.5] MADAGASCAR FLAMING FLAMCO FURY    Money does not always buy happiness and US$3 million does not seem to have brought much luck to Flamco International, a company registered in the Caribbean, or to its chairman prince  (...)  [410 words]  [$4.7] UGANDA THIRD FRENCH FINANCIAL PROTOCOL    France's third financial protocol for Uganda, covering an amount of FFr.35 million, was initialled on December 6. The package will be available as a grant for three sectors, the first  (...)  [238 words]  [$4.7] KENYA AVOIDING THE LONDON CLUB    Kenya is in a cleft stick. Its central bank is holding a record level of foreign currency reserves (estimated at around one billion US dollars) and the national currency has a very  (...)  [259 words]  [$4.7] TANZANIA IMF SHOWS A TOUGH GRIP    Fund donors for Tanzania attending an informal meeting in Paris on December 14 decided to leave it to the International Monetary Fund to decide on releasing international aid to that  (...)  [556 words]  [$8.2] MOZAMBIQUE THE BOOZY WAR    South African Breweries will very probably be able to acquire a 70-percent holding in Mozambique's MacMahon Brewery in Beira, better known as 2M, which has an annual production capacity  (...)  [263 words]  [$4.7] MAURITIUS    The European Union is earmarking ECU 8.65 million to finance the construction of a solid wastes dump with a capacity of 600 tons/day.  (...)  [43 words]  [FREE] MADAGASCAR THE BUDGET NOUVEAU HAS ARRIVED    Madagascar's Finance Bill for 1995 was tabled in the national assembly on December 6, theoretically leaving the chamber until December 22 to pass it.  (...)  [523 words]  [$4.7] AGENDA ETHIOPIA YEWOND WOSSEN KEBEDE AND AMARE AREGAWI    The two senior officials of Tigray People's Liberation Front, the hawkish nucleus of the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front in Addis Ababa, were both fired last  (...)  [94 words]  [$1.5] TANZANIA ALI HASSAN MWINYI    Tanzanian head of state Ali Hassan Mwinyi's December 4 decision to dismiss his entire cabinet was taken after he suffered the supreme insult of calling a cabinet meeting and finding  (...)  [66 words]  [$1.5] SUDAN BAKRY HASSAN SALEH    Sudanese head of state Omar Hassan Al-Bechir has reorganized the country's security services and has appointed his personal counsellor, general Bakry Hassan Saleh, to head two new  (...)  [96 words]  [$1.5] UNITED KINGDOM/SEYCHELLES PETER THOMSON    Britain's new High Commissioner to the Seychelles is expected to take up his duties at the beginning of next year.  (...)  [51 words]  [$1.5]   previous Archive n° 651  - 12/17/1994 next

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