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Francis Soler
DJIBOUTI Editor in Chief
SUCCESSION GOES ON THE AGENDA
Although the normal electoral deadline is still distant, 1996 looks like being a decisive period for picking the successor to head of state Hassan Gouled Aptidon. His two-month absence in France, first for medical treatment and then on convalescence, sharpened the rivalry between supporters of his nephew (and chef de cabinet) Ismail Omar Gelleh and of his cabinet director Ismail Gedi Hared (ION N° 706, 708, 709). (...)   [594 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS
MADAGASCAR
PLAYING CAT AND MOUSE GAMES
   While disgruntled students invaded the streets around the presidential palace in Antananarivo on March 19 where a council of ministers meeting was going on, head of state Albert Zafy and the political opposition were playing cat and mouse games.  (...)  [298 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
COMMONWEALTH ASSURANCE
   During debates at the end of last year with FRELIMO (governmental party) and the Maputo authorities about the membership of Mozambique in the Commonwealth, one of the arguments which seem to have carried some weight in the final decision was that there was not in southern Africa "a single case of a leader or a political party in a Commonwealth country having given up power except by its own initiative".  (...)  [238 words]   [$7]
THE INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS
IOC MEETING ON MAURITIUS
   A ministerial meeting of the Indian Ocean Commission will be held on Mauritius on April 17 and 18 as scheduled (ION N° 704).  (...)  [553 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
CHIRAC CONGRATULATES
   The successful candidate in the Comoros Islands' presidential election is Taki Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim, of the UNDC. He polled 64.  (...)  [569 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
UNPD MISSION TO DARFUR
   A senior official of the United Nations Development Programme who was until recently the body's resident representative in Chad, Cyr Mathieu Samake, is to head a mission leaving on March 24 for Sudan's Darfur Province where there are many Chad refugees.  (...)  [323 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
SUCCESSION GOES ON THE AGENDA
   Although the normal electoral deadline is still distant, 1996 looks like being a decisive period for picking the successor to head of state Hassan Gouled Aptidon. His two-month absence in France, first for medical treatment and then on convalescence, sharpened the rivalry between supporters of his nephew (and chef de cabinet) Ismail Omar Gelleh and of his cabinet director Ismail Gedi Hared (ION N° 706, 708, 709).  (...)  [594 words]   [$11,2]
ERITREA/YEMEN
SAUDI ARABIA JOINS THE SCRUM
   After having indirectly backed Eritrea in its territorial conflict with Yemen over the Hanish Archipelago, Saudi Arabia now appears to be hesitating to go further in backing a country whose top leaders are mainly Christian in a dispute with a Moslem country which is a member of the Arab League.  (...)  [76 words]   [$2,1]
SOMALILAND
PRESIDENTIAL PEN TO PAPER
   Somaliland president Mohamed Ibrahim Egal said this week that a letter dated July 3 1995 purporting to have been signed by him and addressed to the late Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (ION N° 696) was a forgery.  (...)  [370 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
DIPLOMATIC DEADLINES
   Prime minister Navin Ramgoolam has been invited to make official visits to France, Great Britain and India.  (...)  [122 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA
LRA ALL OUT
   The attack on a convoy of seventeen coaches on March 8 on the Karuma-Pakwach main road, in northern Uganda, by rebels of Lord's Resistance Army of Joseph Kony, causing at least 130 casualties, has convinced the Ugandan military authorities that the movement has transformed itself into an armed force led by former professional soldiers with reserves of several thousands of men.  (...)  [483 words]   [$7]

WHO'S WHO
DJIBOUTI
IBRAHIM CHEHEM DAOUD
   The former deputy secretary general for communications (June 1994) of the Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD, Afar rebel movement), Ibrahim Chehem Daoud, who had disassociated himself from the peace agreement signed by his colleagues and the Djibouti government, has launched under his chairmanship a new political-military organization called FRUD-Renaissance.  (...)  [150 words]   [$7]
FRANCE/MAURITIUS
MARIE FRANCE ROUSSETY
   Since the victory of the Labour Party/Mouvement Militant Mauricien coalition in December's general election, Marie France Roussety has been trying to become the Mauritian ambassador to France.  (...)  [247 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
ZAFY ADVISERS
   Head of state Albert Zafy has appointed eleven special advisers, most of them former collaborators such as Naivo Marius Rakotozafindraibe (privatization, customs, OMNIS, DGIDIE), Holijoana Raboana-rijaona (transport, construction sector, land conservation), and Serge Zafimahova (international relations and foreign finance).  (...)  [173 words]   [$7]
FRANCE/FRENCH ANTARCTICA
PIERRE LISE
   It is finally not Henry Feral, at present under-prefect of the French town of Lens, who has been designated as senior administrator of France's Southern Lands (Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises) as reported (ION N° 709).  (...)  [236 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS
COMOROS ISLANDS
EEDC CLOSER TO PRIVATIZATION
   Parallel to its emergency assistance programme for the utility Eau et Electricité des Comores (EEDC) authorized in December (ION N° 708), the parastatal Caisse Française de Développement  (...)  [76 words]   [$2,1]
EAST AFRICA/THE INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS
MULTIPLE TUNA GROUPS
   The future of Association Thonière de l'Océan Indien (ATOI), which is in large part financed by the European Union (EU) and includes all countries in the south-western area of the  (...)  [126 words]   [$2,1]
ERITREA
DAM PROJECT
   The Eritrean authorities are considering putting up a barrage at Toker, about 50 km from Asmara. The construction would build up water reserves to a potential capacity of between  (...)  [197 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
ONE HAT, THREE HEADS
   Three heads have lined up to try on the hat of governor of Madagascar's central bank, currently worn pro tem by the bank's number two person following the eviction of previous governor  (...)  [255 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
PROBLEMS STILL WITH IMF
   Although the programme of financial aid for Djibouti might be submitted to the International Monetary Fund management committee about mid-April and French cooperation minister Jacques  (...)  [205 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
KHARTOUM AND THE OIL DISTRIBUTORS
   After having asked the four petroleum product distribution companies (Agip, Mobil, Nile Petroleum Co, Shell) at the beginning of February to pay the government (which imports the products,  (...)  [248 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
NEW CONTRACT FOR AL AMOUDI
   Ethiopian-Saudi businessman Mohamed Al Amoudi has obtained exclusive gold prospecting rights for three years for his company National Mining Corporation, with 547 sq.  (...)  [70 words]   [$2,1]
COMOROS ISLANDS
RUSSIAN BOSSES
   A Russian-controlled company, Amicale Comores Air, is operating inter-island flights in the Comoros Islands after having taken over, at the beginning of 1996, two Yak-40 aircraft,  (...)  [495 words]   [$7]
SOUTHERN AFRICA
NEARING AGREEMENT IN TRANSPORT
   A transport and communications protocol presently being negotiated between member-countries of the Southern African Development Community might be initialled during the next meeting  (...)  [57 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA
TOTAL TAKES 50 PERCENT OF SUBSIDIARY
   French oil major Total has bought up 50 percent of its subsidiary Total Uganda previously held by the Ugandan government, now giving the parent company full ownership of the Ugandan  (...)  [86 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
HIGH-RISK CADASTRAL SURVEY
   Region Fourteen Council (Addis Ababa) attracted fire and brimstone from the Ethiopian Human Rights Council this week for having authorized a team of enquirers to enter every house  (...)  [284 words]   [$7]
ERITREA
WORLD BANK LOAN
   International Development Association (a subsidiary of the World Bank) has approved a loan of US$17.  (...)  [40 words]   [FREE]
SOUTH AFRICA
WHO HELPS PRETORIA ?
   The voyage to the Republic of South Africa last week of the incoming general manager of the parastatal Caisse Française de Développement, Antoine Pouillieute, was the raison-d'être  (...)  [422 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
STILL NOTHING SETTLED
   Another meeting, at the beginning of March, of representatives of European Union member-countries devoted to the EU negotiating mandate to be given to the European Commission to negotiate  (...)  [249 words]   [$7]

AGENDA
UNITED KINGDOM/KENYA
MWANYENGELA NGALI
   Kenya's new High Commissioner to Great Britain presented his Letters of Credence to queen Elisabeth at Buckingham Palace last week.  (...)  [57 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE/PORTUGAL
AFONSO DHLAKAMA
   The leader of RENAMO (opposition) is due to go to Portugal on April 25 as part of a tour which will take him through seven European countries and to the United States.  (...)  [56 words]   [$2,1]
SEYCHELLES
ROGER TOUSSAINT
   Following the secondment of the Development Bank of Seychelles MD Gaffoor Yakub to the International Monetary Fund for a period of two years, he will be replaced (from April 1) by  (...)  [49 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA/PORTUGAL
JAIME GAMA
   During his recent visit to Angola, Portuguese foreign minister Jaime Gama proposed holding a Euro-African summit, a subject which a Portuguese representative had already discussed  (...)  [67 words]   [$2,1]
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