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Francis Soler
KENYA Editor in Chief
MACHIAVELLI WOULD APPROVE
Ably shouldered by his faithful Kalenjin lieutenants (Mr. Dirty Tricks Nicholas Biwott, Mr. Shady Financier Joshua Kulei, and Mr. Campaign Manager Abraham Kiptanui), head of state Daniel arap Moi has prepared himself for the presidential election of December 29 in the manner of Machiavelli, using the Iron Hand in a Velvet Glove. (...)   [643 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS
COMOROS ISLANDS
ALBRIGHT SAYS IT'S ALRIGHT
   In a meeting in Addis Ababa with the OAU secretary general Salim Ahmed Salim on December 9, on the eve of the opening of the inter-Comoros conference, US secretary of state Ms.  (...)  [165 words]   [$7]
KENYA
KAMPALA, OPPOSITION CAPITAL
   Ugandan officials are believed to be backing discreet approaches between Kenya's political opponents in Social Democratic Party headed by Ms.  (...)  [386 words]   [$7]
SOMALILAND
USEFUL DIPLO TRIP
   The recent international tour by Somaliland's foreign minister, Mahmoud Salah Fagadeh Nour, appears to have produced some positive effects. The minister went first to Asmara to meet his old friend, head of state Issayas Afeworki, who acted as go-between with Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi.  (...)  [426 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
COULDN'T-CARE-LESS ELECTIONS
   With only fifteen days to go to the elections, on December 19, barely 24 percent of registered voters have collected their voter cards.  (...)  [298 words]   [$7]
EAST AFRICA
ARMS TRAFFICKING NETWORK
   The US NGO Human Rights Watch Arms Project's latest report on arms deliveries to Burundi says that diplomats based in the central Africa region report US "pressure on representatives from allied countries" to prevent exposure of networks supplying arms to Rwandan and Burundi Hutu rebels based in Kenya as "these same networks also serve US-supported Sudanese rebels, like the Sudan People's Liberation Army".  (...)  [447 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
US GIVES SPLA GREEN LIGHT
   US secretary of state Ms. Madeleine Albright met colonel John Garang, leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Front, in Kampala on December 10 during her African tour.  (...)  [239 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
JAMES BLOWS HIS TOP
   A certain confusion reigns in the ranks of the opposition since the Leader of the Opposition (and Democratic Party chairman) James Mancham stormed out of the national assembly debate of the 1998 budget on December 3, threatening to throw in his parliamentary mandate to boot.  (...)  [310 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI/ETHIOPIA
TAMRAT AFFAIR FALLOUT
   Testimony in the trial in Addis Ababa of former Ethiopian deputy prime minister and defence minister Tamrat Layne (detained since October 1996 with several close friends on charges of having mounted a network of corruption and misappropriation of funds) has brought to light the affair's Djibouti Connection.  (...)  [567 words]   [$7]
UNITED STATES/UGANDA
BILL CLINTON
   An unidentified member of the US Congress who was a member of the delegation which visited Kampala this week has indicated that she was preparing the groundwork for a visit to Uganda by US president Bill Clinton, which might take place in March 1998.  (...)  [49 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI
AREF MOHAMED AREF
   Yussufa Ndiaye, chairman of the African human rights commission (which is part of the Organization of African Unity), wrote to Djibouti head of state Hassan Gouled Aptidon on November 4 to express his fears about "legal procedure engaged against the lawyer Aref Mohamed Aref".  (...)  [73 words]   [$2,1]
SEYCHELLES
REGAR SANCTIONED
   The Seychelles court of appeal has confirmed on appeal an award of 175,000 rupees (US$37,600) in damages against the opposition newspaper Regar.  (...)  [64 words]   [$2,1]
SOMALILAND
US DELEGATION
   In the framework of US secretary of state Ms. Madeleine Albright's African tour, a US delegation went to Hargeisa this week and had a five-hour meeting with Somaliland president Mohamed Ibrahim Egal.  (...)  [62 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
MACHIAVELLI WOULD APPROVE
   Ably shouldered by his faithful Kalenjin lieutenants (Mr. Dirty Tricks Nicholas Biwott, Mr. Shady Financier Joshua Kulei, and Mr. Campaign Manager Abraham Kiptanui), head of state Daniel arap Moi has prepared himself for the presidential election of December 29 in the manner of Machiavelli, using the Iron Hand in a Velvet Glove.  (...)  [643 words]   [$11,2]

WHO'S WHO
FRANCE/SOMALIA
JEAN GODFRIN
   Since April, Jean Godfrin has been chief adviser to the Somali faction leader Mohamed Hussein Aideed, whose father he had known when Godfrin was the Somalia representative of the French cement giant Ciments Lafarge (which had built the cement factory in Berbera, now in Somaliland) at the time of the late Somali president Siad Barre.  (...)  [217 words]   [$7]
KENYA
JOSHUA KULEI
   With Abraham Kiptanui (ex-comptroller of the president's office and currently electoral campaign manager for head of state Daniel arap Moi), Joshua Kulei organized a gala dinner in Nairobi on December 6 in order to collect 500 million Kenyan shillings from businessmen (in majority of Indo-Pakistani origins) invited to finance the outgoing president's election campaign.  (...)  [289 words]   [$7]
UGANDA/EUROPEAN UNION
BERNARD RYELANDT
   A new European Union resident representative has just arrived in Kampala, Bernard Ryelandt, a 61-year old Belgian who finds himself on African soil again after having been in a European Commission post in Brussels for many years.  (...)  [211 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
NOURDINE BOURHANE
   It is principally because of Anjouan Island (specifically, the Tsembehou region) ancestry that Nourdine Bourhane was appointed prime minister on December 7 by head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim.  (...)  [228 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS
UGANDA
ROAD AND RAIL
   In a letter addressed to the World Bank on July 28 with a view to obtaining a credit line of US$30 million for the roads sector, Ugandan finance minister Joshua Mayanja Nkangi had  (...)  [437 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
MONEY FOR HEALTH
   Although the majority of international financial packages awarded since 1990 for the health sector in Tanzania have been concentrated on fighting AIDS, planning nutrition, or planning  (...)  [320 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
SOFITRANS IN A TERRIBLE STATE
   Société Financière pour le Développement des Transports et du Tourisme (SOFITRANS), a state-owned firm specialized in catering for aircraft and management of duty-free shops in the  (...)  [418 words]   [$7]
KENYA
ABERDARES PROTECTION
   African Development Fund (a subsidiary of African Development Bank) is expected to approve shortly a US$17.2 million loan to upgrade ecosystems in Kenya's Aberdares Region.  (...)  [403 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
AIA PROJECTS
   The consulting company Speedwing, a subsidiary of the airline British Airways, must hand in, on December 20, its feasibility study on the creation of a privately-owned air transport  (...)  [250 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
WORLD BANK CRITICIZED
   The World Bank country director for Uganda, James W. Adams, is reported to have been attacked by representatives of several bilateral fund donors during a preparatory meeting in Kampala  (...)  [294 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
THEBE INVESTMENT IDEAS
   Thebe Investment has unveiled plans for setting up two new divisions. The consortium close to African National Congress (government) used a ceremony in Johannesburg at the end of  (...)  [321 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
NEW ELECTRICITY CONFLICT
   A new conflict has exploded between Lisbon and Maputo over the recent announcement by the private Portuguese company Hidroeléctrica de Cabora Bassa (HCB) of the commencement of supplying  (...)  [236 words]   [$7]
ERITREA
SWEDPOWER TO AID EEA
   Swedish consultant Swedpower has been awarded a contract covering modernization of financial administration in Eritrean Electric Authority (EEA).  (...)  [83 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
FRANCE EYEING URBAN TRANSPORT
   The French embassy's commercial adviser in South Africa has worked out a programme over several years to promote French know-how in the country's urban public transport system.  (...)  [145 words]   [$2,1]

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