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Francis Soler
SOUTH AFRICA Editor in Chief
MBEKI INTO ORBIT
Elected unopposed as chairman of African National Congress (government party) this week, South African deputy president Thabo Mbeki has gone into orbit and will land as the successor of incumbent president Nelson Mandela after the 1999 general and presidential elections. (...)   [642 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS
ZIMBABWE
ALL SIGNALS ARE AT RED
   All signals are at red since the general strike of December 9 sparked by the Zimbabwean government decision to increase certain taxes in order to finance the allowances which head of state Robert Mugabe has decided to award to veterans of the fight for national independence to end their anger (ION N° 790).  (...)  [398 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
ARMY VERSUS RUSTLERS
   A new paramilitary unit of combat against cattle rustlers has been created in the north-east part of Uganda under the responsibility of lieutenant-colonel Andrew Gutti, an officer of the 3rd infantry division of the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF), which is based in the eastern part of the country but covers also the north-east.  (...)  [337 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
ARMY BILLS
   The Tanzanian army has accumulated a slate of 4 billion Tanzanian shillings since September for unpaid electricity bills due to the state-owned utility Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) (US$1 = 620 T.  (...)  [217 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
FROM ONE CONFERENCE TO ANOTHER
   The Inter-Comoros Conference in Addis Ababa opened on December 11 and closed on December 13 at 2 a.m., with the adoption of a six-point agreement which left a strong odour of unfinished work.  (...)  [381 words]   [$7]
SOMALILAND
EGAL RESIGNS?
   The president of Somaliland, Mohamed Ibrahim Egal, informed the Guurti (parliament) in Hargeisa on December 16 of his decision to step down from the post he has held since 1993.  (...)  [467 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
DIPLOMATIC REORGANIZATION
   The Seychelles government has decided to reorganize its diplomatic representation abroad. In an economy drive, the Seychelles embassy in France, where the present ambassador Callixte D'Offay would be confirmed in his post, will see its jurisdiction extended to cover all European Union countries.  (...)  [235 words]   [$7]
SOMALIA
ETHIOPIAN POLICEMAN
   Thanks to the current international rescue operation for populations hit by the floods in Somalia, agencies of the United Nations and of the ICRC have noted, with surprise, the degree of implication of Ethiopia in the Somali civil war.  (...)  [466 words]   [$7]
ERITREA
SICK MAN OF ASMARA
   For about three weeks, head of state Issayas Afeworki has been almost immobilized with a serious back problem. Partly confined to bed, he has been obliged to receive some of his close collaborators and recent guests in his bedroom, as he can only move around with difficulty and has made few public appearances since the beginning of his crisis.  (...)  [283 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
JUSTICE GETS MAULED
   The dismissal of the attorney general, Sinai Nhatitima, after parliament accused him of laxism in the fight against corruption, has reminded observers that justice in Mozambique has always been a sort of battle for power which has already cost the lives of several magistrates.  (...)  [209 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
JOHN HARUN MWAU
   Head of state Daniel arap Moi has appointed John Harun Mwau a member of the newly-constituted anti-corruption unit.  (...)  [91 words]   [$2,1]
NORWAY/UGANDA
ARILD RETVEDT OYEN
   Norway's new ambassador to Uganda, Arild Retvedt Oyen, presented his Letters of Credence to head of state Yoweri Museveni at the beginning of December.  (...)  [68 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
MBEKI INTO ORBIT
   Elected unopposed as chairman of African National Congress (government party) this week, South African deputy president Thabo Mbeki has gone into orbit and will land as the successor of incumbent president Nelson Mandela after the 1999 general and presidential elections.  (...)  [642 words]   [$11,2]

WHO'S WHO
SOUTH AFRICA
PATRICK LEKOTA
   The former prime minister of the Free State, Patrick "Terror" Lekota, who was removed from that post by the African National Congress national executive, has had his revenge.  (...)  [210 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
CHEI ONYANGO KAKOBA
   The MP for Buikwi, in Mokono District, Chei Onyango Kakoba has been elected to head a group of eighty young MPs whose ambition is to renew Uganda's political life.  (...)  [181 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
WILLIAM KUSILA
   Trench warfare has broken out between the chairman of the board of Tanzania Posts Corporation (TPC), David Wakati, and his minister, William Kusila.  (...)  [268 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
SHEMSEDIN AHMED
   Deputy minister of mining and energy since August 1991, Shemsedin Ahmed has just lost his government functions at the same time as he has been expelled from Ethiopian Somali Democratic League (ESDL).  (...)  [260 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS
SEYCHELLES
OVERSPENDING IN STYLE
   The Seychelles government has been unable to adhere to the timetables it had set itself in successive budgets in respect of borrowing and amortization between 1992 and 1996.  (...)  [301 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
US TRADE MISSIONS
   Despite the narrowness of the Ugandan market for their large companies, the United States are looking, not without some difficulty, for the means to transpose on the economic terrain  (...)  [506 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
EXTERNAL ASSETS DECLINE
   After dropping from 45 billion Djibouti francs in 1991 to 28 billion DF in January 1997 (ION N° 757 and 759), Djibouti's net external assets dropped again this year to a historic low  (...)  [323 words]   [$7]
AFRICA
TOP TWENTY OF BRITISH AID
   Statistics of Britain's newly created Department For International Development (DFID) indicate that Tanzania and Uganda were the two principal beneficiaries of British ODA in Africa  (...)  [334 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
PHANTOM JET FOR ZANZIBAR
   The government of Zanzibar is believed to be in discussions with a South African company with a view to buying a new presidential jet aircraft, but the conditions of sale are far too  (...)  [336 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
MAKING EYES FROM PARIS
   For the first time in a very long stretch, the Chambre de Commerce Franco-Arabe held a meeting on Sudan in Paris on December 9 attended by about thirty delegates of French firms.  (...)  [240 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
CFD SUBSIDY FOR FISHERIES
   The parastatal Caisse Française de Développement (CFD) has awarded a complementary subsidy of FFr.2.5 million to finance bringing up to European public health norms of Malagasy exporters  (...)  [365 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
FIRST CFD INTERVENTION
   The parastatal Caisse Française de Développement (CFD) has intervened for the first time in Tanzania by awarding a subsidy of FFr.  (...)  [103 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
WATER SECTOR FINANCING
   An important project for a total amount of US$82 million is to be implemented by the Kenyan government with a view to rehabilitating the drinking water installations (particularly  (...)  [116 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
KPTC GETS NEW HEADS
   The retirement of the Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (KPTC) general manager for telecommunications, Katema, and of his colleague for administration, Charles Muga, has  (...)  [167 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
PRICE WATERHOUSE V. COOPERS & LYBRAND
   The Mauritius representatives of international accountants Price Waterhouse have some difficulty in accepting the decision of their international head office to merge the activities  (...)  [194 words]   [$2,1]

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