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Francis Soler
UGANDA Editor in Chief
THE BANYAMULENGUE FILE
The victorious blitzkrieg of Tutsi rebels in Eastern Zaire required solid military preparations and logistical support and it is clear it must have had considerable regional complicity. Despite Ugandan head of state Yoweri Museveni's denials in Kampala at end-November that he didn't know a thing about the Banyamulengue problem, aid for the rebels came mainly from the Rwandan Patriotic Front army headed by general Paul Kagame. (...)   [619 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS
ETHIOPIA
SIMON MICHALE
   The commissioner of Ethiopia's Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission announced last week that next year, nearly two million Ethiopians will need food aid (down from 3.  (...)  [53 words]   [$2,1]
MALAYSIA/ZIMBABWE
JOYCE MUJURU
   Zimbabwe's minister of information, posts and telecommunications Ms. Joyce Mujuru flew to Kuala Lumpur on December 13 for a week-long study of Malaysia's experience in privatizing its telecommunications.  (...)  [50 words]   [$2,1]
ISRAEL/UGANDA
JONATHAN MEIDEN
   The first secretary of the Israeli embassy in Kenya, attending a conference on agriculture cooperatives in Kampala, revealed that Israel will shortly open an embassy in Uganda.  (...)  [32 words]   [FREE]
ITALY/MOZAMBIQUE
UGO DE MOHR
   Italian ambassador to Mozambique Ugo De Mohr and Mozambican planning and finance minister Tomas Salomao signed an agreement last week covering US$25 million in financial assistance.  (...)  [55 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI
QUESTIONS OF FRENCH INFLUENCE
   The recent conflict which intervened about the allocation of French budget support to Djibouti (ION N° 740) has put in evidence two different ideas within the Djibouti government:  (...)  [270 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES CRUCIFIED
   Following the Ethiopian Airlines catastrophe, when its Boeing 767 on the Addis Ababa to Abidjan flight crashed into the sea off the Comoros islands on November 23, killing 125 aboard, after being hijacked, five survivors and the families of ten other passengers who disappeared have handed the defence of their interests to Jean Martin Mbemba, a lawyer who is a former justice minister of the Congo Republic.  (...)  [369 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
HERIZO CAMPAIGNS IN GAY PAREE
   Ex-minister (and head of the Leader party) Herizo Razafimahaleo, who came in third in the first-round ballot of the presidential election then gave his support in the second round to Didier Ratsiraka, took advantage of his private visit to Paris from December 9 to 14 to doorstep French officials making decisions about Africa.  (...)  [314 words]   [$7]
FRANCE/MAURITIUS
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
   The Franco-Mauritian joint committee meeting originally scheduled for October then pencilled in for January (due to the indisposition of French junior minister for cooperation Jacques Godfrain) will be pushing up the daisies instead.  (...)  [389 words]   [$7]
ZIMBABWE
CONGRESS OF DIVISION
   The national congress of Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front held in the presence of some 8,000 delegates last week in the country's second largest town, Bulawayo, debated none of the vital questions of party leadership which the government alliance now faces after sixteen years in power.  (...)  [450 words]   [$7]
UGANDA/SUDAN
JANUARY NEGOTIATIONS
   A new round of talks between Sudan and Uganda planned for Kampala at end-December has been rejigged for January.  (...)  [41 words]   [FREE]
SOMALIA
TALK AND FIGHT, FIGHT AND TALK
   Fighting erupted in Mogadiscio as delegates of twenty-six Somali factions sat down at Sodere, east of Addis Ababa, to hammer out the composition of a coordinating committee to convene a national reconciliation conference.  (...)  [81 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA
THE BANYAMULENGUE FILE
   The victorious blitzkrieg of Tutsi rebels in Eastern Zaire required solid military preparations and logistical support and it is clear it must have had considerable regional complicity. Despite Ugandan head of state Yoweri Museveni's denials in Kampala at end-November that he didn't know a thing about the Banyamulengue problem, aid for the rebels came mainly from the Rwandan Patriotic Front army headed by general Paul Kagame.  (...)  [619 words]   [$11,2]
SOUTHERN AFRICA
KAIRE MBUENDE
   Southern African Development Community executive secretary Kaire Mbuende announced on December 18 SADC missions would go to the United States and Japan to contact businessmen there with a view to investment in SADC member countries.  (...)  [40 words]   [FREE]
COMOROS ISLANDS
THE MESSAGE FROM PARIS
   Paris has counselled head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim several times in recent weeks to stick to the principles of "good governance" and resume talks with the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.  (...)  [219 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
SOCIAL SITUATION ON THE SKIDS
   Although the government of prime minister Tadjiddin Said Massundi which resigned after the recent general election has been ordered to carry on with day-to-day business until head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim gets back to Moroni, expected on December 26, industrial action movements have been disrupting the functioning of certain government services on the archipelago for a week.  (...)  [312 words]   [$7]
AFRICA
IRAN OGLES THE IDIAN OCEAN REGION
   Islamic Republic of Iran interest in the Indian Ocean region was reconfirmed during the International Conference on the Indian Ocean Community in Teheran from November 10 to 12.  (...)  [355 words]   [$7]

WHO'S WHO
SOUTH AFRICA/UGANDA
TONY YENGENI
   As the Republic of South Africa's first ambassador to Uganda since the African National congress came to power in Johannesburg in 1994 and Nelson Mandela became head of state, Tony Sithembiso Yengeni will be holding down a very strategic post in the present context of the African Great Lakes crisis.  (...)  [314 words]   [$7]
FRANCE/MAURITIUS
RENE FORCEVILLE
   The French cooperation ministry's head of its geographical coordination and studies service (SEC) since December 1993 has been named ambassador to Mauritius.  (...)  [212 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI/KENYA
KASSIM OWANGO
   At the end of November this year, the Chambre Internationale de Commerce et d'Industrie de Djibouti (CICID) welcomed a delegation of Kenyan businessmen headed by Kassim Owango, chairman of National Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Kenya.  (...)  [205 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS
SOUTH AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE
TOLLWAY STUDY
   The Trans African Concessionaire consortium chosen by the Republic of South Africa to build a toll highway between Witbank and Maputo under a BOT deal is expected to start negotiating  (...)  [181 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
STID PROJECTS
   Société de Télécommunications Internationales de Djibouti (a subsidiary of parastatal France Câble et Radio) has followed up introducing Internet to Djibouti this Spring by launching  (...)  [71 words]   [$2,1]
REUNION ISLAND
NO TAX BREAKS FOR BIG TONNAGE
   The European Commission has ruled that vessels over 100 dwt heading for French overseas departments cannot benefit from any tax-free status granted under France's Bernard Pons law  (...)  [41 words]   [FREE]
ZIMBABWE
INDIGENIZATION AGENCY
   Last week's ZANU-PF (government party) national congress (see also "Congress of division" in this issue) moved towards indigenization of the economy.  (...)  [106 words]   [$2,1]
ERITREA
TRAVELLING SALESMAN
   During a conference for the promotion of investments in Eritrea organized in Washington DC on December 10 (ION N° 745) by Corporate Council on Africa and the World Bank subsidiary  (...)  [459 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
APPEAL FOR IMF CLEMENCY
   The lateness in obtaining aid from France (FFr.28 million) and the European Union (ECU 3.5 million), added to the difficulties proper to checking expenditure and administration of  (...)  [333 words]   [$7]
AFRICA
IVY AND OXBRIDGE HANG TOGETHER
   A 1992 internal report condemning the institutionalization of racial discrimination in the World Bank Group which was probably never published suddenly surfaced in Paris this week  (...)  [608 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
PROMISES IT AIN'T
   The government of Zanzibar has failed to meet its promises to form commissions to investigate accusations of misappropriations and human rights violations.  (...)  [402 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
AIRPORT WOBBLIES
   Tanzania's air traffic controllers are worried about growing environmental hazards around airports. Wence Rwechungura, chairman of Tanzania Air Traffic Controllers Association, used  (...)  [381 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
VICTORIA, HERE WE COME!
   The Seychelles has beaten Sri Lanka as the future location of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission headquarters. The decision, at a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization meeting  (...)  [280 words]   [$7]
KENYA
HORTICULTURE IS TOPS
   Kenya's horticultural industry brought in more than US$180 million in exports last year.  (...)  [71 words]   [$2,1]

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