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Francis Soler
KENYA Editor in Chief
EU STILL WARY
When Kenya's minister of state in the president's office Kipkalya Kones and finance minister Musalia Mudavadi attended the World Bank consultative group on Kenya in Paris (March 21 and 22, ION N° 712), Kones was probably not surprised to hear European Union delegates present suggestions for political reforms which they had received during a Nairobi meeting a few weeks earlier (ION N° 710). (...)   [561 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS
MOZAMBIQUE
PERHAPS DEBT CONVERSION WITH IRAQ
   Portugal's Geotraders, a company with links to Otelo De Carvalho, who came to prominence as leader of the country's 25 Abril revolution, is trying to negotiate debt conversion with several economic groups in Lisbon for Mozambique's petroleum debts with Iraq.  (...)  [68 words]   [$2,1]
ZIMBABWE
A NEW NEWSPAPER
   The arrival of Zimbabwe Independent, the freshly-launched independent weekly publication, in Zimbabwe's newspaper kiosks from May 10 onwards is expected to give the country's stifled and government-dominated media scene a welcome supply of oxygen.  (...)  [342 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
HAPPY FAMILIES - AND PARTIES
   There are two ways of looking at the Comoros Islands government announced on March 27: political, and family. Taking the political angle first, head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim's UNDC party gets the lion's share with three major ministries (interior, budget, and foreign affairs), and the principal secretary of the government is Mohamed Soimadou.  (...)  [347 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
FURIOUS CIVIL SERVANTS
   As announced, it is the budget presented by economy minister Tavonanahary Rabetsitonta which was adopted by the national assembly on March 20, not the proposal tabled by finance minister Jean Claude Raherimanjato (ION N° 702 and 705).  (...)  [477 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
NEW LAWS
   After all the excitement aroused by the Seychelles' Economic Development Act (the controversial new law which guarantees immunity from criminal prosecution for major investors who bring in US$10 million), the government has tabled two new laws aimed at reassuring foreign investors.  (...)  [112 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
FRENCH AID FOR SECURITY
   The management committee of French parastatal Fonds d'Aide et de Coopération on March 7 granted Mozambique FFr.  (...)  [55 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA
THREE CANDIDATES FOR MAY 9 PRESIDENTIAL BALLOT
   Two candidates will be running against outgoing head of state Yoweri Museveni (who is standing again) in the May 9 presidential election:  (...)  [50 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
FORMER UNIONISTS IN MINISTRIES
   The expected resignation of finance minister Chris Liebenberg last week has given the head of state, Nelson Mandela, an opportunity to appoint the country's first non-White finance minister, Trevor Manuel (see Who's Who).  (...)  [277 words]   [$7]
KENYA
EU STILL WARY
   When Kenya's minister of state in the president's office Kipkalya Kones and finance minister Musalia Mudavadi attended the World Bank consultative group on Kenya in Paris (March 21 and 22, ION N° 712), Kones was probably not surprised to hear European Union delegates present suggestions for political reforms which they had received during a Nairobi meeting a few weeks earlier (ION N° 710).  (...)  [561 words]   [$11,2]
COMOROS ISLANDS
PARIS IN THE SPRINGTIME
   Head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim is expected in Paris at the beginning of May on a private visit when he will be able to admire the flowers and discuss serious matters such as several bilateral financial and political dossiers.  (...)  [510 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
CHAP ON A HOT TIN ROOF
   Madagascar's Caisse Nationale de Prévoyance Sociale, which comes under public works, administrative reform, and labour minister Henri Rakotovololona, celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year with, in the background, a second and less worthy event hovering around its name.  (...)  [402 words]   [$7]
KENYA
KALENJIN AND KANU
   When KANU MP Kipruto Arap Kirwa stood up in his Cherangani constituency on March 28 and declared that Kenyan head of state Daniel arap Moi was "absolutely not a democrat" but "considered all difference of opinion to his own to be a threat which it was his duty to crush", he started trouble for his own political party and for the Kalenjin tribe to which he and Moi belong.  (...)  [296 words]   [$7]

WHO'S WHO
SOUTH AFRICA
TREVOR MANUEL
   For the first time South Africa has a non-White (and former African National Congress member) as finance minister following the nomination of Trevor Manuel by head of state Nelson Mandela.  (...)  [211 words]   [$7]
AFRICA/UNITED KINGDOM
B. IRETON/R. MANNING
   Two new directors general of Britain's parastatal Overseas Development Administration (part of the ministry for overseas development) have been appointed.  (...)  [218 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
CONRAD BAREND STRAUSS
   A leading banker and newly appointed president of the South African Foundation (replacing Mexer Kahn), Conrad Barend Strauss is expected in Paris on April 26 with a delegation which includes SAF general manager Niel Van Neerden, Anglo American's PR director Michael Spicer, and former SAF president Warren Clewlow.  (...)  [232 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
NEW AMBASSADORS
   A number of new appointments and changes of posting have been made in Ethiopia's diplomatic service, with twelve new ambassadors named.  (...)  [134 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS
ETHIOPIA
MINING PERMIT FOR CANYON RESOURCES AFRICA
   The Ethiopian government has granted US firm Canyon Resources Africa Ltd another mining permit, in addition to the Negado Serdo permit granted last September.  (...)  [82 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTHERN AFRICA/FRANCE
CFD IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
   According to the 1995 operations report of the para-statal Caisse Française de Développement presented in Paris last week, the institution has firmly set its sights on southern Africa  (...)  [592 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
PORT IMPLOSIONS IMMINENT
   Ports along South Africa's eastern coastline are close to saturation point, particularly the port of Durban, and a survey by consultants Integrated Environmental Management warns that  (...)  [245 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
AIR FRANCE GETS BACK
   After twenty years absence, Air France has been offering two weekly flights (Mondays and Saturdays) between Paris and Kampala since April 1.  (...)  [158 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA
THE SAGA OF NPART
   Although the Non-Performing Assets Recovery Trust came into action in November, it has so far managed to recover only US$1 million and about fifty items of movable or immovable assets  (...)  [305 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
EXTERNAL AND OUTSTANDING DEBTS
   Djibouti's outstanding external debt is now estimated to total some US$217 million (38.6 billion Djibouti francs), including $94 million for bilateral loans and $123 million for multilateral  (...)  [366 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
LIQUIDATION OF AIR COMORES RESUME
   Representatives from the Mauritius office of the consultant Price Waterhouse were expected in Moroni this week to resume work on the programme to indemnify former Air Comores employees  (...)  [99 words]   [$2,1]
COMOROS ISLANDS
COTECNA TIGHTENS UP
   The confidential report which Swiss security firm Cotecna (a subsidiary of SGS) handed to the finance ministry (during the previous Comoros Islands government) lams into practices  (...)  [403 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
PIP POPS PAST THE POST
   Adopted on March 20 as part of the Finance Bill, the 1996 tranche of Madagascar's public investment programme (PIP) for 1996-1998 includes 247 projects (fifty of them new) compared  (...)  [419 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
LOOKING FOR LOLLY
   Housing and lands minister Alan Ganoo took advantage of the Mauritius chamber of commerce and industry AGM at end-March to fire a warning rocket to pinpoint the decline in direct foreign  (...)  [289 words]   [$7]
KENYA/UGANDA
ION N° 709
   An article in ION N° 709 of 9 March 1996 on Kenya entitled "External financing needs" which stated "Kampala needs $2.  (...)  [60 words]   [$2,1]

AGENDA
REUNION ISLAND
PAUL VERGES
   Paul Vergès, the leader of Parti Communiste Réunionnais, is standing for the French senate (upper chamber) bye-election on April 14 as the overseas territory candidate.  (...)  [100 words]   [$2,1]
SEYCHELLES
JAMES MANCHAM
   Former president and leader of the Democratic Party (opposition), James Mancham, has managed to get a motion to organize giant land tortoise racing as a tourist attraction on the archipelago  (...)  [83 words]   [$2,1]
SOMALIA/EUROPEAN UNION
SIGURD ILLING
   The European Union's Nairobi-based representative for Somalia Sigurd Illing (of Germany) is expected to see his job scrapped.  (...)  [59 words]   [$2,1]
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