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Francis Soler
UGANDA Editor in Chief
STIRRING DAYS FOR THE HIGH COMMAND
An important reorganization of Uganda's army high command got under way in mid-December as the armed forces braced for possible cross-frontier attacks from Sudan following reports of huge troop movements in southern Sudan. According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, military sources said that a 15-man meeting of the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) chaired by the head of state, lieutenant general Yoweri Museveni, in the western town of Masindi made a number of changes in the top brass. (...)   [575 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS
SEYCHELLES
SQUEEZE THE NEW ACT
   The Seychelles government's decision to push through a Bill offering immunity from prosecution to investors who brought US$10 million into the Seychelles (ION N° 693) has raised all hell from western governments and media.  (...)  [390 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
STIRRING DAYS FOR THE HIGH COMMAND
   An important reorganization of Uganda's army high command got under way in mid-December as the armed forces braced for possible cross-frontier attacks from Sudan following reports of huge troop movements in southern Sudan. According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, military sources said that a 15-man meeting of the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) chaired by the head of state, lieutenant general Yoweri Museveni, in the western town of Masindi made a number of changes in the top brass.  (...)  [575 words]   [$11,2]
TANZANIA
RETURN OF THE NORSEMEN
   Sweden's minister for development aid, Pierre Schori, is due to go to Tanzania next week to study with the new government there the conditions for restoring Swedish balance of payment aid.  (...)  [60 words]   [$2,1]
COMOROS ISLANDS
PRESIDENTIAL BALLOT SET BACK
   At the conclusion of a special meeting of the council of ministers held in a stormy atmosphere last week, the government of prime minister Mohamed Caabi El Yachroutu set a second timetable for the country's presidential election.  (...)  [373 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
ZENAWI IN PARIS
   Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi is to make an official visit to France from January 21 to 24 at the invitation of head of state Jacques Chirac, who had made the proposal following his election in May last year.  (...)  [565 words]   [$7]
ERITREA/YEMEN
SEYOUM MESFIN MEDIATES
   Ethiopian foreign minister Seyoum Mesfin this week continued his efforts to mediate between Eritrea and Yemen, striving to find a solution to the sovereignty battle over the minuscule Hanish Archipelago in the Red Sea (see also Troubled waters off Hanish on page 5).  (...)  [182 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
MASONIC LODGE WAR
   Representatives from Paris and Reunion Island of the Grande Loge Nationale de France, one of the French Freemason groups, are to go to Antananarivo at the beginning of March to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Grande Loge Nationale Malgache.  (...)  [135 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
ALTERNATIVE GOVERNMENT
   After his unprecedented electoral defeat (ION N° 699), former prime minister Anerood Jugnauth no longer has any MPs to support him and the two political groups which formed the former government coalition (Renouveau Militant Mauricien and Mouvement Socialiste Mauricien) are expected to lapse into a lengthy post-electoral change of life.  (...)  [334 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
ZAFY ENTHRONED BY ANDRIANAS
   Head of state Albert Zafy was recently enthroned by an Andriana association (nobles of the Merina tribe).  (...)  [63 words]   [$2,1]
SUDAN
ANARCHY IN THE UPPER NILE
   The attempt by William Nyuon Bany to restructure the South Sudan Independence Movement and bring it closer to the Sudan People's Liberation Army headed by colonel John Garang (ION N° 696) appears to have backfired.  (...)  [508 words]   [$7]
SOMALIA
AIDEED STEPS BACK
   Although the "interior minister" (Mohamed Qanyare Afrah) in the "interim government" of general Mohamed Farah Aideed had, at the end of November, called on the European Union and United Nations to replace their Nairobi-based envoys to Somalia, the Somali warlord has in fact had to backtrack.  (...)  [206 words]   [$7]

WHO'S WHO
UGANDA
PRESIDENT'S TEAM
   The composition of the 40-person electoral campaign team named by head of state Yoweri Museveni for the presidential election in May has got Uganda's political opposition very worried.  (...)  [215 words]   [$7]
REUNION ISLAND
TONY MANGLOU
   The chairman of Reunion Island's regional economic and social council, Tony Manglou, has been named departmental secretary of Rassemblement pour la République (senior partner in the French government) for this French overseas department.  (...)  [149 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
RUNDHEERSING BHEENICK
   Incoming Mauritian finance minister Rundheersing Bheenick, who has taken over from incumbent Ramakrishna Sithanen, is a man who knows the subject of finance to the tips of his fingers for having been, from January 1980 to November 1995, the unflappable and apparently unmovable director general of the planning and economic development ministry.  (...)  [286 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
YASIN AL-HAJ ABDIN
   Sudan has named a 27-year old PhD and environmental science specialist to head the National Electricity Corporation. Currently chairman of the state-owned telecommunications utility Sudatel, Yasin Al-Haj Abdin has previously headed a number of companies including flag carrier Sudan Airways (which joined the Airbus Club while under his orders) and (from 1982 to 1990) the Islamic Development Company.  (...)  [81 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS
ZIMBABWE
EU FINANCE CLEARS MINES
   Almost twenty years after the Rhodesian army laid mines along the country's frontier with Mozambique and Zambia between 1974 and 1977, the European Union has approved a ten million  (...)  [276 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
BUDGET MARATHON
   After a series of marathon meetings over the last three days of 1995, the Malagasy government managed to hammer out the main lines of its budget for 1996.  (...)  [417 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
TEMPERED SATISFACTION
   French industry considers that relations between Sudan and the International Monetary Fund might improve during 1996 or at the beginning of 1997, and increasingly are despatching delegations  (...)  [399 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
EU LOAN FOR ANJOUAN
   The EU has approved a grant of 5.6 million ECU (just over US$7 million) to rehabilitate the 41-km long Mutsamudu-Sima-Pomoni main road, one of the busiest on Anjouan Island.  (...)  [264 words]   [$7]
REUNION ISLAND
FROM SUGAR TO TUGS
   The Reunion Island-based Sucreries de Bourbon is currently negotiating with the G7 group (a major French taxi-fleet operator and proprietor of the daily Infomatin) to take over G7  (...)  [89 words]   [$2,1]
EAST AFRICA
FRENCH TRADE CONVENTION
   French embassy trade counsellors in East Africa will be organizing their traditional annual get-together for company representatives, in Djibouti this year, from February first to  (...)  [245 words]   [$7]
ERITREA/UGANDA
TWO WORLD BANK PROJECTS
   The World Bank has put two new loan projects into its financing pipeline:  (...)  [73 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
BIDS FOR PRIVATELY-OWNED POWER STATION
   Following an international Call for bids issued in September, the Kenyan government has now received nineteen tenders from consortia which want to build and operate the planned 75-MW  (...)  [161 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA
CLAMP DOWN ON PHONE CALLS
   Uganda Posts and Telecommunications Corporation has placed an order worth one billion Ugandan shillings (about US$1 million) for sophisticated telephone equipment with French companies  (...)  [345 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
BOLLORE PROMISES
   During his latest trip to Madagascar at the end of November (ION N° 693), Frenchman businessman Vincent Bolloré, who heads the shipowners SCAC Delmas Vieljeux, was received by head  (...)  [259 words]   [$7]
ERITREA/YEMEN
TROUBLED WATERS OFF HANISH
   The latest catalogue of French tour operator Nouvelles Frontières vaunts the merits of Moka Marine holiday village, on Yemen's Red Sea coastline, which claims to be the country's leading  (...)  [228 words]   [$7]

AGENDA
SUDAN
ABDEL AZIZ AHMED SHIDDO
   Sudan's justice minister announced in Khartoum last week that the next general election would indeed be held during the holy month of Ramadan (which commences January 22).  (...)  [89 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
RICHARD ANDRIAMANJATO
   Several sources claim that national assembly chairman Reverend Richard Andriamanjato is currently supervising approaches by a consultancy belonging to one of his close supporters to  (...)  [47 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA/UNITED STATES
JOHN F. HICKS
   A Washington hearing of the Foreign Relations Commission of the US Senate last month devoted to the role of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in the Republic of South  (...)  [175 words]   [$2,1]
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