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Francis Soler
MAURITIUS Editor in Chief
SWINGING POLITICS
Illegal and undercover odds by Port Louis bookmakers on the result of this month's elections tally with more formal estimates put out by several Western embassies on Mauritius. All agree that the opposition looks to be heading for a comfortable victory on December 20 (ION N° 695). (...)   [624 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS
MADAGASCAR
POLICE INQUIRIES IN THE NORTH
   A group from Madagascar's national police was this week in Nosy Be and Diego Garcia, in northern Madagascar, on an investigation into drug trafficking and smuggling of forged FFr.  (...)  [39 words]   [FREE]
MAURITIUS
SWINGING POLITICS
   Illegal and undercover odds by Port Louis bookmakers on the result of this month's elections tally with more formal estimates put out by several Western embassies on Mauritius. All agree that the opposition looks to be heading for a comfortable victory on December 20 (ION N° 695).  (...)  [624 words]   [$11,2]
KENYA
POLICE ROUND UP FOREIGNERS
   Kenyan police in Nairobi have since November 25 been systematically rounding up foreigners (mostly Rwandans, Somalis and Ugandans) whom the government allege are responsible for an outbreak of armed violence.  (...)  [268 words]   [$7]
SOMALIA
AIDEED SPLITS THE ITALIANS
   The Italian government is divided on the stand to take towards the "government" set up in Somalia by general Mohamed Farah Aideed, head of Somali National Alliance, whose troops control southern Mogadiscio and, since September, also the town of Baidoa (ION N° 686).  (...)  [205 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
MANCHAM FANCIES MINISTERIAL JOB
   The Leader of the Opposition (and head of the Democratic Party) James Mancham has proposed forming a "grand coalition" with the Seychelles People's Progressive Front led by head of state France Albert René.  (...)  [382 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
DJOHAR SPEAKS TO HIS PEERS
   Comoros Island head of state Said Mohamed Djohar, at present living on Reunion Island, addressed a letter on November 21 to other heads of state and to heads of government due to attend the summit of French-speaking countries at Cotonou (Benin) from December 1 to 4.  (...)  [316 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
NEW BLOOD IN GOVERNMENT
   Keeping up the image of "Mister Clean" that he extolled during the electoral campaign, Tanzania's incoming head of state Benjamin Mkapa began his five-year term by publishing a list of his personal property (two houses, four cars, an under-exploited farm property).  (...)  [269 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
GOVERNMENT NOW COMPLETE
   Three more ministerial nominations announced last week by prime minister Emmanuel Rakotovahiny (ION N° 695) mean that his new government is now complete.  (...)  [371 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
VAN HEERDEN LEAVES
   The South African ambassador to the European Union, Neil Van Heerden, has handed his resignation to the Republic's foreign ministry and according to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, is expected to leave Brussels at the end of January.  (...)  [410 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
SPLA OFFENSIVE CONTINUES
   According to a statement from Sudan People's Liberation Army, the southern Sudanese rebels were still holding positions along the River Kit about 35 km south of Juba (ION N° 694).  (...)  [58 words]   [$2,1]
SUDAN
NEW ROLE FOR SSIM
   The offensive by colonel John Garang's Sudan People's Liberation Army against Sudanese armed forces in Equatoria (ION N° 693) continues as the other Sudanese rebel movement with a Nuer majority, the Southern Sudan Independence Movement, is restructuring under the leadership of William Nyuon Bany.  (...)  [459 words]   [$7]
SOMALILAND
EGAL WRITES TO RABIN
   In a letter dated July 3 transmitted by fax from Hargeisa to the then Israeli prime minister, the late Yitshak Rabin, the president of self-proclaimed Somaliland, Mohamed Ibrahim Egal, proposed establishing "strategic links" with Israel.  (...)  [433 words]   [$7]
REUNION ISLAND
MPS INVITE CHIRAC
   Four of Reunion Island's five MPs, two of its senators, and the chairmen of the island's two chambers (Ms. Margie Sudre and Christophe Payet) have invited French head of state Jacques Chirac to visit the island on March 19 and 20, the fiftieth anniversary of Reunion Island becoming a French overseas department.  (...)  [206 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
IRAN TO THE RESCUE
   After having debated the military situation in Southern Sudan, Iran's Majlis Shura (parliament) decided to send a lightning mission to Khartoum.  (...)  [356 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
SOARES VISIT CRITICIZED
   Partido Social Democrata (opposition) headed by former prime minister Cavaco Silva has criticized the official visit which head of state Mario Soares made to the Seychelles last week, as part of his trip to southern Africa (ION N° 695).  (...)  [139 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
ZIMBABWE
MARGARET DONGO
   The ZANU-PF (government party) defector has pulled off her gamble of being elected to Zimbabwe's Parliament as an independent candidate in the bye-election for Harare South constituency on November 25 and 26 (ION N° 685).  (...)  [462 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
FREDERICK TULWAY SUWAYE
   Tanzania's new prime minister was named by incoming head of state Benjamin Mkapa on November 27 (see "New blood in government" on page 4).  (...)  [206 words]   [$7]
SOMALIA/EUROPEAN UNION
ABDI KABLA, SIGURD ILLING
   The United Nations secretary general's representative for Somalia Abdi Kabla and the European Union's special envoy in that country Sigurd Illing carried out a joint trip to Lower Juba Region on November 29 to meet delegates of the three Darod clans (Absame, Harti, Marehan) who have been participating in a Darod reconciliation conference at Kisimayo, in southern Somalia.  (...)  [157 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS
MADAGASCAR
WHERE'S THE SAP?
   The technical secretariat for structural adjustment headed by secretary general Daniel Ramarakoto presented a report on the state of Madagascar's structural adjustment programme to  (...)  [541 words]   [$7]
ERITREA
RACE FOR MINING PERMITS
   Many foreign companies have put in applications to the Eritrean authorities for permits to explore for gold and base metals.  (...)  [186 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
PORTUGUESE MISSION IN MAPUTO
   Delegates of twenty-four Portuguese enterprises were due to visit Mozambique on the initiative of Associaçao Industrial Portuense, an employers' organization from Oporto, in northern  (...)  [154 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
SUGAR SANS FRONTIERES
   Diverse government measures aimed at optimizing the Mauritian sugar industry (ION N° 695) have now been joined by a plan to expand the industry geographically into countries with cheap  (...)  [124 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
NO THIRD WAY OUT THROUGH MOZAMBIQUE
   South Africa has rejected, for the time being at least, any notion of laying a third highway from their country into neighbouring Mozambique's Gaza Province, north of Maputo.  (...)  [63 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI
DEMOBILIZATION COST
   The World Bank took the occasion of one of its recent missions to Djibouti to set a budget of 4.3 billion Djibouti francs (US$ 24.  (...)  [348 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
EQUATOR BANK ROOTS FOR COFFEE
   Representatives of the Nairobi-based Equator Bank have stepped up their trips to Addis Ababa over past weeks in a bid to meet officials of a privately-owned Ethiopian bank.  (...)  [54 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
EU AID FOR EXPORTS
   The European Development Fund management committee is expected to give its approval shortly for a ECU 4 million support programme for Kenya's exports.  (...)  [431 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
CONTRACT FOR A DOMESTIC SATELLITE NETWORK
   US-based California Microwave Inc has been awarded a US$10 million contract by Sudan's privately-owned telecommunications company Sudatel, to install a domestic network of communications  (...)  [44 words]   [FREE]

AGENDA
KENYA
RICHARD LEAKEY
   The leader of Safina, the opposition party which has still not been legalized by the Kenyan authorities, has been named chief coordinator of the inter-party secretariat which is to  (...)  [112 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE/KENYA
DANIEL GAGNEUX
   The French embassy's trade counsellor in Nairobi for several years, whose responsibility includes Tanzania and Uganda, is to leave the post at the beginning of December to continue  (...)  [91 words]   [$2,1]
REUNION ISLAND
ROBERT POMMIES
   France's council of ministers on November 29 appointed Robert Pommies, formerly prefect (senior civil servant) of the Indre Department in France, as prefect of Reunion Island (a French  (...)  [92 words]   [$2,1]
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