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Francis Soler
SOUTH AFRICA Editor in Chief
PARIS OFFENSIVE
Encouraged by the growth in trade with the Republic of South Africa, France is to launch a vast trade drive in the country in a bid to increase its small market share there. This amounted to 3.8 percent in first-half 1995, neck-and-neck with Italy but a long way behind Germany (16 percent), the United States, Japan, and Great Britain. (...)   [560 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS
UGANDA
SAM-7'S DEFEND KAMPALA
   According to Ugandan military sources, Kampala has been protected by an anti-aircraft system in case the Sudanese armed forces launch an air attack in the event of armed conflict between the two countries.  (...)  [127 words]   [$2,1]
SUDAN
FRONT LINE AROUND JUBA
   An offensive launched by colonel John Garang's Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) (ION N° 693) has been held by government forces close to Juba.  (...)  [460 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
ISLAND BRINKMANSHIP
   The current political chaos in Moroni has, perhaps predictably, opened the way to developments which illustrate the implosion of the administration.  (...)  [508 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
ANTI-FUNDAMENTALIST FRONT
   On the initiative of Roman Catholic bishops in Mozambique, representatives of that church, the Islamic Council of Mozambique and Congresso Islâmico de Moçambique (the latter being a Sunni sect representing more than 10,000 Moslem associations) are holding regular consultative meetings in Nampula Region.  (...)  [170 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
AGITATION IN THE WEST
   Agitation is continuing to grow since the regional elections in the regional state of Benishangul Gumuz (Region Six, with capital at Asosa), situated in the western part of Ethiopia and close to the Sudanese frontier.  (...)  [238 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
ARMY VERSUS BRIGANDS
   Mozambique has launched a vast military campaign to clear the country's main roads, particularly those leading into Maputo, of the armed gangs who set up road blocks to halt road transport.  (...)  [483 words]   [$7]
SOUTHERN AFRICA
RENAMO AND UNITA MAY MEET
   Political parties from Portuguese-speaking African countries labelling themselves as "democratic" may meet in January to coordinate strategy.  (...)  [79 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
EU AND HUMAN RIGHTS
   Representatives in Addis Ababa of the European Union are expected to call for an early meeting with the Ethiopian authorities to express their disquiet over the human rights situation in Ethiopia.  (...)  [80 words]   [$2,1]
SUDAN
ANTI-KHARTOUM FRONT IN LONDON
   Britain's baroness Cox, who has taken an interest in Sudan's affairs since visiting rebel-held zones in southern Sudan, is to organize a grand meeting of the Sudanese opposition in the House of Lords in London on November 28 and 29.  (...)  [214 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
GERMAN SCIENTISTS KIDNAPPED
   Two German scientists were kidnapped on November 13 in Dinshu National Park, in Bale Region of southern Ethiopia.  (...)  [100 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTHERN AFRICA/PORTUGAL
SOARES TRIP'S FANTASTIC
   Portuguese head of state Mario Soares, on an official visit to the Republic of South Africa this week, received the country's highest civilian award, the Order of Good Hope, from the hands of his opposite number, Nelson Mandela.  (...)  [292 words]   [$7]
ERITREA/YEMEN
CONFLICT OVER SPECKS OF SAND
   A recent incident has spotlighted a little-known conflict of sovereignty over the Hanish Isles, three specks lying in the Red Sea between Eritrea and Yemen, off the Danakil coastline.  (...)  [194 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
JUGNAUTH STAKES ALL
   Prime minister Anerood Jugnauth's request to head of state Cassam Uteem to dissolve the national assembly and call elections for December 20 means the head of government is playing a long shot.  (...)  [391 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
REAL AND PHONEY RESIGNATIONS
   Of the three ministers who announced their resignation as soon as they had been appointed to the government of prime minister Emmanuel Rakotovahiny, on the grounds that they were not satisfied with the ministerial portfolios attributed (ION N° 694), only Alain Ramaroson has actually stuck to his public declaration.  (...)  [455 words]   [$7]

WHO'S WHO
MADAGASCAR
JACKSON TIAMANA
   Madagascar's new armed forces minister, general Jackson Tiamana, has been promoted from being his predecessor's head of cabinet. Tiamana was born in 1944 and did most of his staff officer training in France, attending the Ecole Militaire in Strasbourg, the officers training school at St Cyr Coetquidan, and Ecole Supérieure d'Application des Matériels in Fontainebleau.  (...)  [122 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
BENJAMIN MKAPA
   The Chama cha Mapinduzi (government party) candidate winner of the Tanzanian presidential election with 61.8 percent of votes (with 27.8 percent for the principal rival, ex-minister Augustine Mrema of NCCR-Mageuzi, opposition), Benjamin Mkapa is expected to be sworn in at Dar Es Salaam on November 23.  (...)  [235 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
WILLIAM ETEKI MBOUMOUA
   A 63-year old Cameroon national and former secretary general of the Organization of African Unity during the 1970s as well as Cameroon's foreign minister several times under former presidents Ahmadou Ahidjo and Paul Biya, William Aurelien Eteki Mboumoua has been entrusted by OAU with a delicate mediation mission on the Comoros Islands.  (...)  [311 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS
SOUTH AFRICA
CFD PROJECTS
   The parastatal Caisse Française de Développement is readying two projects for the Republic of South Africa for next year.  (...)  [54 words]   [$2,1]
MAYOTTE ISLAND
CFD LOANS
   Caisse Française de Développement last month granted several loans to Mayotte Island: the first two credit lines (FFr.45 million and FFr.  (...)  [180 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY
   According to several officials of Mauritius Sugar Syndicate, the mediocre results of the sugar campaign, which is already three-quarters completed, run a sharp risk of forcing Mauritius  (...)  [506 words]   [$7]
SOUTHERN AFRICA
TRADE CONFERENCE
   The Southern African Development Community is to organize a conference on trade and investment in the Republic of South Africa from January 31 to February 2.  (...)  [131 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
PARIS OFFENSIVE
   Encouraged by the growth in trade with the Republic of South Africa, France is to launch a vast trade drive in the country in a bid to increase its small market share there. This  (...)  [560 words]   [$11,2]
KENYA
AIR AFRIQUE IN NAIROBI
   The multinational airline Air Afrique, which is owned by eleven West African states and the French state-owned airline Air France, is to operate a twice-weekly flight from Abidjan  (...)  [57 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
DEAD-CENTRE WITH TOTAL
   French petroleum major Total, which has spent years trying to recover even a small part of its assets nationalized by Madagascar in 1976, has been carrying out discreet undercover  (...)  [188 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
LITTLE OR NOTHING SETTLED
   Negotiations by the International Monetary Fund mission which was in Djibouti recently did not proceed very smoothly with the authorities there.  (...)  [459 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
WATER BY SATELLITE
   ISTAR of France and Tractebel Development of Belgium have reached agreement on a partnership to share data from the French-designed SPOT satellite (for images) to use in plotting an  (...)  [104 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
PAYING FOR FUN AND GAMES
   Madagascar, with the agreement of the World Bank, has submitted a fresh financing plan to the Comité international des jeux de la francophonie (CIJF) for the games which are supposed  (...)  [269 words]   [$7]

AGENDA
MADAGASCAR
ALFRED RAMANGASOAVINA
   The special counsellor to head of state Albert Zafy (and former deputy prime minister 1992-1993) who also heads one wing of Union Nationale pour le Développement et la Démocratie (presidential  (...)  [133 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
MOHAMED IQBAL GAFAR
   The rich Indo-Pakistani businessman who has been detained since August on charges of drug trafficking, after 40 tons of hashish had been seized, was released from detention this w  (...)  [59 words]   [$2,1]
SUDAN
ALI OSMAN MOHAMED TAHA
   Sudan's foreign minister flew to Juba, capital of southern Sudan, this week to boost the morale of government troops there.  (...)  [62 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
MESFIN WOLDE MARIAM
   The chairman of Ethiopian Human Rights Council and ten journalists were charged by the prosecutor of the Addis Ababa region on November 21 with spreading false information.  (...)  [101 words]   [$2,1]
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