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Francis Soler
SOUTH AFRICA Editor in Chief
GUNS FOR JOBS
The South African government has just pulled off the finest ever "guns for jobs" deal in industrial compensation for military contracts. For an order (of submarines, corvettes, helicopters, jet fighters, training planes) worth a total of 30 billion rand, it has been promised 110 billion of various industrial offsets by its suppliers (64,000 new jobs) including 26 billion in the shape of direct foreign investments, or three times more than the minimum specified in the Call for bids (US$1 = 5. (...)   [679 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS & POWER
COMOROS ISLANDS
DJOUSSOUF TAKES A GAMBLE
   Named prime minister on October 22, the leader of Forum pour le Redressement National (ex-opposition) Abbas Djoussouf did not manage to reach an understanding with barons of RND, the party of the late president Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim over the composition of the government.  (...)  [289 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
NEXT MILITARY CLEANOUT IN THE NORTH
   Following the recent attacks by rebels of Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD) headed by Ahmed Dini against elements of the government army in the north of the country which made several casualties, the government of Djibouti has decided to create military zones in this north of the country.  (...)  [365 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
NEW POLITICAL JOURNAL IN ADDIS
   A new political review should appear soon in Ethiopia on the initiative of a group of moderate political opponents mostly based in the United States where two of them, Kiflu Tadesse and Yared Tibebu, have appeared o n the 'Democracy in Africa' programme of the US government-funded radio network Voice of America (ION 824).  (...)  [283 words]   [$7]
EAST AFRICA
GREENS CONCLAVE IN NAIROBI
   Europe's Green political parties will gather in Nairobi from December 2 to 6 in their first Euro-African conference, part of a bid to encourage environmental ideas in Africa.  (...)  [319 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
DEAD-END MEETING WITH THE OPPOSITION
   A delegation of the Sudanese government met in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), in mid-November, the chairman of National Democratic Alliance (NDA, opposition) and head of Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Mohamed Osman Al Mirghani.  (...)  [391 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
SULTAN CHOUZOUR
   Just before flying out of Moroni for Paris on November 24, where he was due to attend the Franco-Africa summit, acting president Tadjiddin Ben Massunde named former minister Sultan Chouzour as secretary general in the president's office.  (...)  [42 words]   [FREE]
MADAGASCAR
CHARLES RABEMANANJARA
   The nomination of this gendarmerie general to be director general of the Customs service has turned into a fight between prime minister Tantely Andrianarivo who of course backed the candidacy, and deputy prime minister (and budget minister) Pierrot Rajaonarivelo who opposed it and wanted to see a civil servant from the Customs administration named.  (...)  [98 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
NEXT ANTI-LANDMINE CONFERENCE
   Complete removal of landmines in the area between Maputo and Ressano Garcia should allow construction of the highway linking Maputo with Witbank, in South Africa, to be completed within eighteen months.  (...)  [68 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
ANTENEH MERID
   The publisher of the Ethiopian publication Tobia, who had been detained by the Ethiopian authorities several months ago before being released, took advantage of his trip to Tanzania to attend an international conference to decide to go into exile.  (...)  [60 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI
OPPOSITION WANTS INTERIM GOVERNMENT
   Three opposition formations called on November 25 for the establishment "before the upcoming presidential election" of "an interim government which included all the country's political components".  (...)  [147 words]   [$2,1]
ERITREA
RUSSIAN PILOTS IN ASMARA
   About twenty Russian pilots arrived in Asmara on November 25 and were billeted in a hotel.  (...)  [49 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
GUNS FOR JOBS
   The South African government has just pulled off the finest ever "guns for jobs" deal in industrial compensation for military contracts. For an order (of submarines, corvettes, helicopters, jet fighters, training planes) worth a total of 30 billion rand, it has been promised 110 billion of various industrial offsets by its suppliers (64,000 new jobs) including 26 billion in the shape of direct foreign investments, or three times more than the minimum specified in the Call for bids (US$1 = 5.  (...)  [679 words]   [$11,2]

WHO'S WHO
UNITED KINGDOM/KENYA
ANDREW HAMILTON
   Central Bank of Kenya has injected US$33.3 million into National Bank of Kenya (in which the state holds capital) to help it pay off its debts and has given it a British adviser, Andrew Paterson Hamilton.  (...)  [211 words]   [$7]
ERITREA
WOLDAI FUTUR
   A junior manager at the World Bank who has been seconded to the Eritrean government as economic adviser, Woldai Futur played a major role in working out the National Economic Policy Framework and Programme (NEPFP) unfolded by fund donors at a news conference in Asmara at the beginning of November.  (...)  [213 words]   [$7]
CANADA/SUDAN
QUTBI AL MAHDI
   The head of the Sudanese external security service Qutbi Al Mahdi is eagerly awaited by Sudanese opponents in Canada where it is believed he may go in the next few weeks, although the Sudanese embassy in Canada has denied such a visit was being prepared.  (...)  [278 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR/RWANDA
SERAPHIN RWABUKUMBA
   A brother-in-law of the late Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, Seraphin Rwabukumba has recycled his activities into selling vehicles on Madagascar.  (...)  [154 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS & PROJECTS
MAURITIUS
NEW CHIEF FOR CENTRAL BANK
   The recent decision of Mauritian prime minister Navin Ramgoolam to get rid of the Banque de Maurice (central bank) governor Dan Maraye and the managing director Bud Gujadhur, opened  (...)  [218 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
SOUTH AFRICA
SAFMARINE FOR SALE
 [80 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
VISABEIRA, BEEFING-UP
 [106 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
BANK PROBLEMS FOR STEDIC
 [62 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
MACMILLAN AND BAGERSH CREATE A JOINT VENTURE
 [101 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA
SALIM SALEH LOOKS FOR GRACE
   General Salim Saleh, a brother and military adviser to head of state general Yoweri Museveni who served as a go-between for numerous purchases of military equipment by the Ugandan  (...)  [364 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
MYSTERY YACHT FOR COMS COY
   Mystery surrounded the arrival in Victoria this week of a luxury yacht consigned to the new telecommunications company Airtel, which does not start up its activities until Decembe  (...)  [246 words]   [$7]

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
MADAGASCAR
TWO IN LINE TO BUY BTM
 [223 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
IRAN BACKS OFF REFINERY
 [210 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
SAA SEEMS PRIVATIZABLE NOW
 [183 words]   [$7]
KENYA
TELKOM PRIVATIZATION NEXT YEAR
   The Kenyan government will be compelled to complete establishing the three units (Telkom Kenya, Postal Corporation of Kenya, Communications Commission of Kenya) which will arise from  (...)  [339 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
ECONOMIC PLAN FOR 1999-2001
   Djibouti finance minister Yacin Elmi Bouh has presented a 1999 finance bill to the current session of parliament which includes a three-year economic and social plan.  (...)  [294 words]   [$7]
EAST AFRICA
LONDON BUSINESS SEMINAR
   East African Corporation (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) is to organize a business seminar for British businessmen in London on January 27 under the name "East Africa, From cooperation  (...)  [129 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
FINANCE BILL AT LAST
   Although the Malagasy parliament's budget session has been open for the past two months and is supposed to close at the end of December, it was only on November 26 that Government  (...)  [181 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
LET THERE BE LIGHT – IN THE WEST
   Agence Française de Développement (ex-Caisse Française de Développement) is due to approve, sometime next month, a FFr.  (...)  [182 words]   [$2,1]
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