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previous Archive n° 838  - 12/19/1998 next   Francis Soler SUDAN Editor in Chief TURABI MAKES A RISKY BET The entry into effect at the beginning of January of a law authorizing political associations in Sudan under certain conditions is shaking the house within National Democratic Alliance (armed opposition) and recomposition of the current single party Mutammar Al Watani (National Congress) headed by Hassan El Turabi. (...)   [695 words]  [$8.2] POLITICS & POWER UGANDA ISRAELIS IN SECURITY    It is now possible to put a name to the Israeli security company which went to Uganda to negotiate a large arms purchase and probably also to train or equip Ugandan military before they went off to fight in Democratic Republic of Congo (ION 834).  (...)  [247 words]  [$4.7] SOUTH AFRICA REDEPLOYMENT ALL ROUND    The approach of the general election in April and the handover of power between head of state Nelson Mandela and his present vice president Thabo Mbeki has precipitated the redeployment of many African National Congress leaders.  (...)  [419 words]  [$4.7] COMOROS ISLANDS BUDDING PEACE ON ANJOUAN    After having caused about sixty casualties, the fighting between rival militia ceased on separatist Anjouan Island on December 13 and a two-day cease-fire was agreed on December 16.  (...)  [242 words]  [$4.7] DJIBOUTI ETHIOPIAN MILITARY IN TADJURAH    Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD) chairman Ahmed Dini is claiming that Djibouti army chief of staff general Zakaria Cheikh Ibrahim visited Tadjurah, in northern Djibouti, on December 10 accompanied by Ethiopian army officers.  (...)  [306 words]  [$4.7] MADAGASCAR COINCIDENCE – OR EXAMPLE    The very recent nomination of Claude Ramiandrisoa as director general of Customs services (See Who's Who in this issue) seems to have coincided with a super swoop by Madagascar's Customs services.  (...)  [328 words]  [$4.7] DJIBOUTI LAWYER WRITES TO OAU    Djibouti lawyer Aref Mohamed Aref wrote on December 15 to the current chairman of Organization of African Unity, Burkina Faso head of state Blaise Compaoré, just before Compaoré received his Djibouti opposite number Hassan Gouled Aptidon in Ouagadougou for an OAU summit scheduled for this week.  (...)  [124 words]  [$1.5] ETHIOPIA KEBELE CHIEFS TRAIN    The chairmen and vice chairmen of 283 kebele (neighbourhood civil administration) in Addis Ababa were called in mid-November for military training at the General Hayelom Araya Training Centre (from the name of an Ethiopian general killed by an Eritrean in Addis Ababa two years ago).  (...)  [90 words]  [$1.5] SEYCHELLES ANTHONY FRANCIS FERMANDO    As from January first, Francis Chang Sam will hand over to Anthony Francis Fernando as The Seychelles' attorney general before going over himself to the private sector after holding the post since 1993.  (...)  [75 words]  [$1.5] ETHIOPIA/PUNTLAND HIRALE HAYLE    Ethiopia's special envoy to Puntland (north-east Somalia) arrived in Garowe, capital of this autonomous region, on December 9.  (...)  [58 words]  [$1.5] LIBYA/SOMALIA ALI MAHDI MOHAMED    One of the warlords in Mogadiscio, Ali Mahdi Mohamed, was due to fly to Libya on December 17 at the invitation of head of state colonel Muammar Al Kadhafi, doubtless meeting there another Mogadiscio warlord, Hussein Mohamed Aideed who is at present in Cairo but should join them in Tripoli.  (...)  [112 words]  [$1.5] KENYA WORRIED ETHIOPIAN EXILES    The Kenyan authorities have launched a vast operation to check up on immigrants living in the country which has got numerous Ethiopian refugees worried to the point of pushing some to go underground out of fear of being arrested and handed over to officials of Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (in power in Addis Ababa).  (...)  [117 words]  [$1.5] SUDAN TURABI MAKES A RISKY BET    The entry into effect at the beginning of January of a law authorizing political associations in Sudan under certain conditions is shaking the house within National Democratic Alliance (armed opposition) and recomposition of the current single party Mutammar Al Watani (National Congress) headed by Hassan El Turabi.  (...)  [695 words]  [$8.2] WHO'S WHO KENYA/PORTUGAL JOSE LAMEIRAS    The new Portuguese ambassador to Kenya, Jose Lameiras, knows Sub-Saharan Africa after having been posted to Luanda, first as minister counsellor (1990-1991) then as consul general (1991-1994).  (...)  [168 words]  [$4.7] TANZANIA IDRIS RASHID    The former governor of Tanzania/s central bank, the Bank of Tanzania, Idris Rashid whose contract expired last July, has not taken long to find a new job.  (...)  [165 words]  [$4.7] MADAGASCAR CLAUDE RAMIANDRISOA    As soon as he returned to Antananarivo on December 11 after another trip abroad, head of state Didier Ratsiraka cut short the spirit of revolt growing in the Customs administration since the nomination of general Charles Rabemananjara as director general (ION 836).  (...)  [187 words]  [$4.7] SOUTH AFRICA MAX SISULU    Like other African National Congress MPs who have left politics for business, Max Sisulu last joined joined a subsidiary of publicly-owned arms group Denel as assistant director general.  (...)  [259 words]  [$4.7] ECONOMICS & PROJECTS SEYCHELLES NEW MEMBER FOR PARADISE    Iridium, the multinational company which is setting up a worldwide satellite communications system, might become the next member elected to the Seychelles fiscal paradise.  (...)  [219 words]  [$4.7] COMPANIES DJIBOUTI IMPLANTATION OF ETHIOPIA AMALGAMATED  [90 words]  [$1.5] EAST AFRICA TROUBLE FOR WESTMONT HOLDINGS  [218 words]  [$1.5] SOUTH AFRICA SOMETHING NEW FOR CARGILL  [91 words]  [$1.5] TANZANIA REPORT ON TRC CORRUPTION    The names of fourteen senior officials of Tanzania Railways Corporation suspected of corruption are thought to appear in a Prevention of Corruption Bureau (PCB) report handed in to  (...)  [424 words]  [$4.7] MAURITIUS TELECOMS PRIVATIZATION COMMISSION    A privatization commission chaired by Mauritian finance minister Vasant Bunwaree will be responsible for preparing the state's partial pullout from the utility Mauritius Telecom (  (...)  [303 words]  [$4.7] BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE MOZAMBIQUE NEW-LIFE COTTON MILLS  [197 words]  [$4.7] TANZANIA PHARMACEUTICAL CONTRACT BUSTED  [226 words]  [$4.7] DJIBOUTI SALT EXTRACTION BOOMS  [149 words]  [$4.7] KENYA LONDON TOUGHENS ITS TONE    The country strategy paper on Kenya drafted by Britain's Department for International Development has adopted World Bank and International Monetary Fund criteria and methods to determine  (...)  [332 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA PRIVATIZATION CONFLICT    Workers at National Alcohol and Liquor Factory have been anxious for several weeks over privatization of the state-owned factory begun by company management headed by general manager  (...)  [318 words]  [$4.7] MAURITIUS COMBATING CORROSION ON RODRIGUES    The European Development Fund has authorized a 3.3 million ecu project to finance programme to combat soil erosion on Rodrigues Island.  (...)  [154 words]  [$1.5] UGANDA CORRUPTION IS THE STAR    Donor countries present at the World Bank consultative group on Uganda in Kampala from December 7 to 11 did not spare any efforts to convince head of state Yoweri Museveni to order  (...)  [211 words]  [$1.5]   previous Archive n° 838  - 12/19/1998 next

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