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Francis Soler
ERITREA Editor in Chief
WASHINGTON WAGERS ITS SHIRT
One year after his first official visit to the United States, head of state Issayas Afeworki was back there this week on a private visit set up by Corporate Council on Africa. The trip was sponsored by companies such as Anadarko Petroleum and IBM. (...)   [624 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS
MADAGASCAR
RATSIRAKA HITS THE WEB
   Paris backers of presidential runner Didier Ratsiraka have shifted into top gear in pressing for his promotion to the top slot (which in fact the ex-president does stand a good chance of winning in the second round of voting on December 29).  (...)  [405 words]   [$7]
AFRICA
INDIGO PUBLICATIONS WEB SITE
   Indigo Publications, publishers of The Indian Ocean Newsletter, opened its Internet Web site in Paris on December 12. The site Africa Intelligence provides a database of 18,000 articles from the past five years' issues of The Indian Ocean Newsletter and some other Indigo Group publications (La Lettre du Continent, Africa Energy and Mining, Maghreb Confidentiel, plus biographies of African officials published in the series "One Hundred Men of Power").  (...)  [282 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
PASCOAL MOCUMBI
   The Mozambican prime minister organized a trip to visit Songo and the Cabora Bassa dam on November 18, making it coincide with the date that RENAMO leader Afonso Dhlakama was away in Portugal.  (...)  [74 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA/UNITED KINGDOM
JOHN MONKS
   The secretary general of Britain's powerful Trade Union Confederation (TUC) has protested to Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi about the conditions of imprisonment of Taye Wolde Semayat, president of Ethiopian Teachers' Association (ION N° 725).  (...)  [85 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
BOTHA BUSINESS
   South Africa's former minister Roloef Frederick "Pik" Botha has pulled out of politics and diversified into business with one of his old friends, Rory Ashton, setting up a trading company to do business in Africa.  (...)  [202 words]   [$7]
REUNION ISLAND
CORRUPTION TRIALS
   A Reunion Island court has handed down heavy sentences for corruption to two elected municipal officials in an investigation that lasted two years and saw thirty-six people charged with offences.  (...)  [268 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
CORRUPTION REPORT TAGS MWINYI
   Head of state Benjamin Mkapa says a 521-page report on corruption he received from judge Joseph Warioba will "serve as ammunition" in his war on corruption.  (...)  [412 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
DEFECTIONS FROM BAHR EL GHAZAL
   A group of twenty-five officers and NCOs of colonel John Garang's Sudanese People's Liberation Army from the Bahr El Ghazal region have deserted and gone to Leer, apparently with the idea of joining the Southern Sudan Independence Movement.  (...)  [267 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
WNBF SWIPES AT REFUGEES
   Ugandan rebels inJuma Oris' West Nile Bank Front have stepped up attacks in past weeks on camps housing south Sudanese refugees.  (...)  [242 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
FUNDAMENTALISTS IN PARLIAMENT
   The second round of the Comoros Islands' general election on December 8 provided a turnout judged even lower than the first round (ION N° 744).  (...)  [400 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
NETSANET BEGS TO DIFFER
   Officials of Netsanet Le-Ethiopia Radio in the US have taken exception to The Indian Ocean Newsletter report "Amhara opposition drifting" (ION N° 741).  (...)  [199 words]   [$2,1]
SUDAN
SHOWDOWN ON ZAIREAN BORDER
   According to Zairean leader Matthieu Mbatayo, a member of the high council of the republic and parliament in transition (HCR-PT) of Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (Etienne Tshisekedi tendency), thousands of inhabitants of the Zairean administrative zone of Dungu-Doroma, close to the Sudanese border, have fled south towards Isiro.  (...)  [171 words]   [$2,1]
ERITREA
WASHINGTON WAGERS ITS SHIRT
   One year after his first official visit to the United States, head of state Issayas Afeworki was back there this week on a private visit set up by Corporate Council on Africa. The trip was sponsored by companies such as Anadarko Petroleum and IBM.  (...)  [624 words]   [$11,2]

WHO'S WHO
EUROPE/KENYA
LUTZ SALZMANN
   After serving as head of the European Union's delegation to Surinam (1990-1994) and to Nigeria (1995-1996), Lutz Salzmann has been appointed to head the European Union delegation in Nairobi.  (...)  [136 words]   [$7]
KENYA
HENRY KOSGEY
   The nomination of Tinderet MP (and chairman of the Nandi branch of the governmental KANU party) Henry Kosgey as environment and natural resources minister (replacing John Sambu) several weeks ago is not to the liking of some diplomats stationed in Nairobi.  (...)  [211 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR/MAURITIUS
RAMA SITHANEN
   The former Mauritian finance minister has become a European Union consultant for a support project of economic liberalization and privatization on Madagascar.  (...)  [157 words]   [$7]
AFRICA/NORWAY
TOVE STRAND GERHARDSEN
   The appointment of tough-minded socialist Ms. Tove Strand Gerhardsen as director general of Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) sees the end of an era when engineers headed this major Norwegian aid agency.  (...)  [250 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS
MOZAMBIQUE
AID FOR BREEDING
   Parastatal Caisse Française de Développement officials last month okayed a FFr.  (...)  [143 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA
SO WHO GOT IT ALL?
   A report on Denmark's aid to Uganda carried out recently by the Danish government's auditor general failed to ascertain whether this aid had in fact benefitted the economic development  (...)  [183 words]   [$2,1]
COMOROS ISLANDS
MORONI-PARIS HERE WE COME
   Charter airline Corsair (a subsidiary of French tour package operator Nouvelles Frontières) is set to run the passenger traffic between the Comoros Islands and Paris, beginning on  (...)  [101 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA/COMOROS ISLANDS
BUCKET-SHOP PRICES
   South Africa's Interair airline will be the first off the mark with a regular weekly air link between Johannesburg and Moroni, flying a Boeing 727-100.  (...)  [178 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
PRIVATE BANK BORN
   Endowment Fund For the Rehabilitation of Tigray (EFFORT), the holding company created by leaders of Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF, hard-core of the coalition ruling regime),  (...)  [447 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
TIGHT TALKS WITH INDIA
   An important delegation of Indian government officials was expected on Mauritius at the end of this week to begin negotiations on revising some conditions of the countries' double-taxation  (...)  [296 words]   [$7]
SOUTHERN AFRICA
DIFFICULT PARTING OF THE WAVES
   Mozambique and Zimbabwe have set up a joint commission to study problems of sharing the countries' common water resources. The Harare authorities have undertaken not to divert the  (...)  [159 words]   [$7]
KENYA
IMF EVALUATION MISSION
   A joint World Bank and International Monetary Fund delegation landed in Nairobi last week on a fifteen-day mission. Led by IMF representative Hiroyuki Hino, the mission is linked  (...)  [409 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
RENE BARTOLI
   The chairman of the East Africa section of Conseillers du Commerce Extérieur de la France, who is also chairman-MD of Temba International and general manager of Victoria Flowers, will  (...)  [44 words]   [FREE]
MOZAMBIQUE
THREE WAYS TO SEE THINGS
   The tripartite meeting on the draft tariff for electricity from Cabora Bassa took place, an official communique claimed, "in a spirit of cooperation which opened the way to fresh  (...)  [251 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
PANORAMA OF US AID
   Ethiopia has been awarded US$7.3 million in military aid from the United States under a $15 million aid programme for three African countries hostile to the ruling regime in Sudan  (...)  [346 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
FINESSING FINANCE FOR KASESE
   The project to exploit the Kasese cobalt mine in western Uganda is still looking for finance. The French parastatal Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) initiated the  (...)  [313 words]   [$7]

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