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Francis Soler
ERITREA Editor in Chief
BATTLE FOR A SANDPIT
Armed confrontation on December 15, 16 and 17 between units of the armed forces of Eritrea and Yemen on Greater Hanish Island, one of the islands commanding the Red Sea approaches, are an eye-opening over-sight of diplomatic developments in the region. (...)   [655 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS
TANZANIA
ELECTORAL SUITS HIT RECORD HIGH
   Tanzania's battle of the ballot boxes will now be followed by the campaign of the court cases. Chief justice Francis Nyalali says that the high court has piled up a record number of suits calling for electoral results to be annulled, and says that such a large number of petitions is unprecedented in the political history of Tanzania.  (...)  [382 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
MINISTRY RENOVATIONS
   Incoming Tanzanian head of state Benjamin Mkapa on December 20 announced a reshuffle of the country's top civil servants, naming eleven new principal secretaries (PS) to the ministries and switching eight others to different posts.  (...)  [408 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
CHINESE ARMS FOR SUDAN'S ARMY
   According to The Indian Ocean Newsletter's sister publication Intelligence Newsletter, the Khartoum authorities received a major shipment of arms and military equipment from People's Republic of China at the end of November.  (...)  [109 words]   [$2,1]
ERITREA
BATTLE FOR A SANDPIT
   Armed confrontation on December 15, 16 and 17 between units of the armed forces of Eritrea and Yemen on Greater Hanish Island, one of the islands commanding the Red Sea approaches, are an eye-opening over-sight of diplomatic developments in the region.  (...)  [655 words]   [$11,2]
SUDAN
OAU WARNS KHARTOUM
   The meeting of foreign ministers of member-countries of the central organism of the Organization of African Unity's committee for conflict prevention and management which met in Addis Ababa on December 18 and 19 called on Sudan to extradite the three alleged Egyptian terrorists wanted for questioning on their role in the attempted assassination of Egyptian head of state Hosni Mubarak in the Ethiopian capital last June.  (...)  [310 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
CLEARING THE DECK
   The opposition alliance of Navin Ramgoolam's Labour Party and Paul Berenger's Mouvement Militant Mauricien scored nothing but bull's-eyes in the Mauritian general election on December 20, wiping the floor with their unfortunate opponents.  (...)  [404 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
EMBARRASSING REVELATIONS
   A number of former officials of South Africa's army and secret service, including ex-defence minister Magnus Malan, who is in the eye of the storm of inquiries of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission headed by archbishop Desmond Tutu to bring out into daylight the responsibilities for alleged human rights violations under the previous apartheid regime, could make some embarrassing revelations for the United States' Central Intelligence Agency.  (...)  [223 words]   [$7]
ZIMBABWE
CONSTITUTION UP FOR KNOCKS
   Four thousand voices at the ZANU-PF annual conference last weekend unanimously selected head of state Robert Mugabe as government party candidate for next year's presidential election.  (...)  [265 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
ORGANISATION OF AFRICAN UNITY AND DJOHAR'S RETURN
   Foreign ministers of member-countries of the Organization of African Unity meeting in Addis Ababa on December 19 voted on the report of the OAU mission which visited the Comoros Islands.  (...)  [142 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
RUMOURS OF RESHUFFLES
   Supporters of national assembly chairman Richard Andriamanjato met on December 18 to imagine an alternative government to that of prime minister Emmanuel Rakotovahiny.  (...)  [185 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
AN ANXIOUS TWELVE MONTHS
   The year 1995 rings out with the impression that Mozambique has transformed itself still more into a transit and storage point for a number of international smuggling operations (arms, cars, drugs).  (...)  [278 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
DJOHAR STILL WANTS HOME
   Head of state Said Mohamed Djohar, who is still being "accommodated" by France on Reunion Island, has not abandoned his intention of returning to the Comoros Islands prior to the presidential election, currently scheduled for the end of January 1996 but possibly likely to be postponed until the following March.  (...)  [394 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
BEHIND THAT TAIWANESE GIFT
   Head of state Nelson Mandela last week mentioned the Taiwanese government's donation of 35 million rand (US$10 million) gift to the African National Congress during the April 1994 election campaign as one of the reasons why the Republic of South Africa could not break off diplomatic relations with Taiwan just to satisfy the People's Republic of China.  (...)  [62 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI
TWO NOTABLES HELD
   The chairman of Front Uni de l'Opposition Djiboutienne (FUOD), Mohamed Ahmed Issa (aka Cheiko), on December 14 denounced the "arbitrary detention" of two notables of the village of Adailou, in northern Djibouti:  (...)  [405 words]   [$7]
SOMALILAND
NORWEGIANS SENTENCED
   Two pilots of Norwegian nationality have been sentenced in a Somaliland court to twelve months jail and a fine of US$3,000 for having landed an aircraft at Berbera airport without authorization.  (...)  [204 words]   [$7]

WHO'S WHO
MAURITIUS
NAVIN RAMGOOLAM
   Mauritius' next prime minister Navin Ramgoolam, who is leader of the Labour Party and a partner in the victorious alliance with Paul Berenger's Mouvement Militant Mauricien, came late in life to politics.  (...)  [224 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
TRUTH COMMISSION
   South Africa's seventeen-person Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which is responsible for investigating alleged human rights violations during the apartheid regime, has distinguished members.  (...)  [229 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
HASSAN GOULED APTIDON
   After having been hospitalized in Paris and receiving a visit while in the Val De Grace hospital from his French opposite number Jacques Chirac, Djibouti head of state Hassan Gouled Aptidon received a splendid present.  (...)  [137 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
FATMA MAGHIMBI
   At the end of an alliance between MPs of the Civic United Front headed by Seif Shariff Hamad and the United Democratic Party headed by John Cheyo which was created to obtain the thirty MPs needed before a parliamentary opposition group could be set up, Ms.  (...)  [117 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS
REUNION ISLAND
MINIMUM WAGES ALIGNED ON METROPOLITAN LEVELS
   France's council of ministers on December 20 decided to increase the hourly rate of minimum legal wages (SMIC) on January first in French overseas departments by 6.  (...)  [98 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
NO CONSULTATIVE GROUP MEETING IN MARCH..
   Although the World Bank administration has already reserved a conference room in its premises in Paris at the request of the Mozambican government for holding a consultative group  (...)  [119 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
FRENCH PACKAGING ADS
   The Agence pour la Coopération Technique Industrielle et Economique (ACTIM) has planned three conferences for the first half of 1996 to make presentations of French know-how in South  (...)  [280 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
TWO-MISSION BALANCE SHEET
   The 1996 budget was the principal problem raised by officials of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank during their recent missions to Antananarivo (ION N° 698).  (...)  [393 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
GOLD TRACES IN OMO GIBE
   A survey jointly financed by the Ethiopian government and the African Development Bank which is costing 47 million birr (US$7.  (...)  [90 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI
TWO CFD LOANS
   Caisse Française de Développement has granted Djibouti two credit lines. One is a loan of FFr.61 million for Electricité de Djibouti and will contribute to financing a programme to  (...)  [194 words]   [$7]
EAST AFRICA
ECGD RETURNS
   During a meeting in London at the end of November jointly organized by the Southern Africa Business Association, West Africa Committee and Eastern Africa Association, three British  (...)  [98 words]   [$2,1]
COMOROS ISLANDS
STRIKE HITS COTECNA
   Major traders on the Comoros Islands decided on December 19 to boycott technical controls on imports planned by Cotecna Inspection.  (...)  [235 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
FRANCE OGLES TRADE
   Mauritius, which has become ineligible for loans at concessional rates from the parastatal Caisse Française de Développement because of its successful economic recovery, will be leaving  (...)  [400 words]   [$7]
KENYA
... BUT ONE IN JANUARY
   The World Bank has confirmed that the meeting of the consultative group of Kenya's fund donors originally planned for November (ION N° 693) will finally be held in Paris on January  (...)  [38 words]   [FREE]

AGENDA
ERITREA/YEMEN
BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI
   The secretary general of the United Nations has apparently decided to get personally involved in calming the current dispute between Eritrea and Yemen over the Hanish islands (see  (...)  [64 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE/SEYCHELLES
PIERRE VIAUX
   Appointed French ambassador to The Seychelles only a few months ago, Pierre Viaux will now quit a diplomatic career and about the middle of January will become sports director in the  (...)  [41 words]   [FREE]
EAST AFRICA/GERMANY
ROMAN HERZOG
   German head of state Roman Herzog is to make a tour of East African countries at the end of January 1996.  (...)  [46 words]   [$2,1]
ZIMBABWE
KUMBIRAI KANGAI
   Hard on the heels of head of state Robert Mugabe's declaration last weekend that shortage of financing might force the Zimbabwean government to seize real estate belonging to White  (...)  [93 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI
MOUSSA BOUH
   The principal secretary in the office of prime minister Barkat Gourat Hamadou recently asked the United states embassy in Djibouti if they could let the prime minister's office have  (...)  [42 words]   [FREE]
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