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Francis Soler
EAST AFRICA Editor in Chief
EURO-AMERICAN PALAVERS
A US delegation led by assistant secretary of state for African affairs George Moose and a European delegation (a troika composed of French, German and Greek diplomats) met in Brussels last month to discuss African affairs. The Americans presented their Greater Horn of Africa Initiative, which covers ten countries (the Horn of Africa countries plus Burundi, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda). (...)   [875 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS
SUDAN
INTERIM BALANCE AT KAPOETA
   Claim and counter-claim continue to flow from Sudan, with the Khartoum authorities reporting in mid-December that government forces still held the area around Kapoeta, in the southern part of the country.  (...)  [418 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
JUGNAUTH'S SUPER-BUMPER OFFER
   Prime minister Anerood Jugnauth has made an astonishing proposition to opposition MP and Labour Party leader Navin Ramgoolam in an interview published end-December by the local weekly Business Magazine:  (...)  [276 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
MALECELA STILL RUNNING
   Although prime minister John Malecela lost his post in a cabinet reshuffle last month (ION N° 650), he remains vice chairman of the government party Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) and is still a runner in the presidential race set for October 1995 to find a successor to head of state Ali Hassan Mwinyi.  (...)  [223 words]   [$7]
KENYA
NAIROBI AND THE EUROPEAN UNION
   Despite apparently moderate tones, the document the European Union presented to the World Bank's consultative group on Kenya in Paris last month (ION N° 652) included a number of sharp criticisms aimed at Nairobi.  (...)  [465 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
   The Council of Alternative Forces for Peace and Democracy (CAFPD, opposition) on January 4 labelled as "infamous" a joint communique issued on December 14 by eighteen foreign embassies in Addis Ababa which welcomed the Ethiopian parliament's adoption of a new constitution.  (...)  [101 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
AFAR DIPLOMAT DEFECTS
   Ethiopia's embassy in Cairo lost its consul, Yussuf Yassin, at the end of December when he defected from his country's service and fled to Norway, where he applied for political asylum.  (...)  [481 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
THE DOVE OF PEACE
   The agreement of peace and reconciliation signed in Djibouti's Palace of the People on December 26 (ION N° 652) is expected to see government portfolios go to leaders of the Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD), headed by Ali Mohamed Daoud (aka Jean Marie) and Ougoureh Kifleh Ahmed.  (...)  [338 words]   [$7]
SOMALIA
   Following negotiations in Yemen between Mugne Said Omar, the head of Somali High Seas Fishing Company (SHIFCO), and Boqor (king) Abdulahi Musse (aka King Kong, of the Osman Mahmoud subclan of Mejertein) on the release of two fishing vessels belonging to SHIFCO captured by Mejertein pirates, the two men have gone to Djibouti to continue talks.  (...)  [97 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
SOUTH AFRICA
ALLAN BOESAK
   South Africa's designated representative to the United Nations European Office, in Geneva, looks in danger of losing his nomination because of allegations of having misappropriated funds of a Danish charity organization.  (...)  [132 words]   [$7]
EAST AFRICA/VATICAN
RENATO KIZITO SESANA
   The publisher of New People (the Nairobi-based magazine for English-speaking Roman Catholics from Sudan to South Africa), Reverend Renato Kizito Sesana, has been dismissed by cardinal Joseph Tomko, a Slovak and head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Evangelization of People (the Vatican department handling Roman Catholic church affairs in Africa).  (...)  [286 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
OUGOUREH KIFLEH AHMED
   The secretary general of Djibouti's Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD), which signed the agreement on peace and reconciliation with the government on December 26 (see The Dove of Peace, page 4 of this issue), Ougoureh Kifleh Ahmed will probably become a member of the reshuffled Djibouti government.  (...)  [352 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS
MOZAMBIQUE
   A Portuguese consortium which includes the firms Quintas e Quintas and Solidal SA has been awarded the contract to supply 4,500 km of electric cable for the rehabilitation of the Cabora  (...)  [76 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
TWO STICKY POINTS
   Following parliamentary approval of Madagascar's 1995 budget on December 24 (and despite MPs' disapproval of new rates for the petroleum rates tax demanded by the International Monetary  (...)  [395 words]   [$7]
ZIMBABWE
   The state-owned Posts and Telecommunications Corporation has reissued its international Call for bids to supply and commission the country's first mobile cellular radiotelephone s  (...)  [79 words]   [$2,1]
ERITREA
COUNSEL BY WORLD BANK
   A voluminous Country Economic Memorandum on Eritrea compiled by World Bank experts was handed out to participants at the Bank's consultative group on Eritrea, held in Paris last month  (...)  [492 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
OFFICIALS ON THE SPOT
   A parliamentary commission headed by Edward Oyombe Ayila has accused head of state Hassan Ali Mwinyi's chief secretary Paul Rupia, his former finance minister Kigoma Malima, and several  (...)  [269 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
EMBASSY HAS A BIG RED DEBT
   The Embassy Hotel in Dar es Salaam is on the brink of bankruptcy after having run up debts of US$8 million with the French high street bank Société Générale, which had made the sum  (...)  [424 words]   [$7]
EAST AFRICA
EURO-AMERICAN PALAVERS
   A US delegation led by assistant secretary of state for African affairs George Moose and a European delegation (a troika composed of French, German and Greek diplomats) met in Brussels  (...)  [875 words]   [$11,2]
ERITREA
REHABILITATION PRIORITIES
   According to a recent World Bank document on rehabilitation programmes for Eritrea's infrastructures, priorities in transport cover revamping berths 5 and 6 in Massawa port and improving  (...)  [245 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
   The number of tourists visiting the islands declined by 8 percent in 1994, to settle at 107,500 (compared with 116,000 in 1993), representing the first drop seen in the past three  (...)  [96 words]   [$2,1]
EAST AFRICA
LOANS FROM EIB
   The European Investment Bank, the European Union's long-term financing body, has granted Tanzania a conditional loan of ECU 23 million (nearly US$28 million) from risk capital resources  (...)  [203 words]   [$7]
ZIMBABWE
BAD HARVEST AHEAD
   With seasonal rains late and weak, Zimbabwe and most southern African countries stand waiting for a bad harvest in 1995, with the next agricultural season perhaps even coming close  (...)  [368 words]   [$7]

AGENDA
KENYA
ABDUL MAJID COCKAR
   Head of state Daniel arap Moi on December 28 appointed judge Abdul Majid Cockar to be Chief Justice of Kenya, taking over from judge Fred Kwasi Apaloo, a Ghanian.  (...)  [103 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI/FRANCE
JEAN MICHEL POUCHELE
   The representative of the NGO SOS Africa who was sentenced to jail in Djibouti for having re-entered the country illegally after being expelled (ION N° 652) was repatriated to France  (...)  [84 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA
YOWERI MUSEVENI
   Uganda's head of state confirmed on January first that the next presidential and general elections would be held in December 1995.  (...)  [63 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
ASRAT WOLDEYES
   The leader of the All Amhara People's Organization, who is already in prison serving a sentence of two and a half years, has been sentenced to an additional three years on charges  (...)  [51 words]   [$2,1]
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