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Francis Soler
EAST AFRICA Editor in Chief
CAIRO TURNS SOUTH
Egypt is clearly seeking to enlarge the field of action of its diplomacy and trade on the African continent, beyond its immediate zone of interest as represented by the Horn of Africa and Sudan. But just as obviously, installing a government in Khartoum which would be more kindly disposed towards Egypt remains priority number one. (...)   [671 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS & POWER
ETHIOPIA
AA DEFENCE SCORES OWN-GOAL
   An Ethiopian air force L-39 aircraft was shot down by its own side last month above Agula, east of Mekele and Wukro in Tigray Regional State (northern Ethiopia), but Government initially did not admit the blunder.  (...)  [186 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
ANJOUAN SEPARATISTS FIGHTING
   At least forty dead, many injured, tens of thousands of displaced persons fleeing the fighting, the town of Mutsamudu devastated, victually sacked and emptied of inhabitants, such is the provisional balance sheet of renewed murderous in-fighting on Anjouan Island since December 5.  (...)  [407 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
OPPOSITION FEDERATION FINALIZED
   After several discussions in private, leaders of the two principal opposition parties, former prime minister Aneerood Jugnauth of Mouvement Socialiste Militant (MSM) and Paul Berenger of Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM), reached agreement last week on the 0outline of an opposition federation which would put forward a joint list in future general elections,though the next are not due till 2001.  (...)  [242 words]   [$7]
KENYA
PATTNI TURNS ON MUITE
   The general impression that Kamlesh Pattni, the businessman implicated in the Goldenberg scandal, preciously guards the list of personalities he once financed, came a lot clearer this week when he accused Paul Muite, leader of the new opposition party Safina, of having once extorted money from him.  (...)  [363 words]   [$7]
FRANCE/SUDAN
FRENCH SENATE MISSION SPOTS HOLES
   Three French senators who visited Khartoum in June have turned in a pretty critical report on their trip. Georges Berchet (RDSE), Aubert Garcia (Socialist Party, government) and Paul d'Ornano (RPR, opposition) agree in their mission report that their Sudanese hosts "were very anxious to describe the progress their country had made" but that "a single incident contributed to sowing doubt" in their minds as to "the Sudanese authorities' good faith".  (...)  [447 words]   [$7]
SOMALIA
ABDULLAHI YUSSUF AHMED
   The president of Puntland, in north-eastern Somalia, colonel Abdullahi Yussuf Ahmed, was due to go to Libya this week on the invitation of head of state colonel Muammar Kadhafi.  (...)  [144 words]   [$2,1]
TANZANIA
PRISON AGITATION
   A majority of the fifty detainees at Bukoba regional prison, a town situated on Lake Victoria in Kagera Region, went on hunger strike last month to call for an acceleration of their cases.  (...)  [169 words]   [$2,1]
SEYCHELLES
EMMANUEL GREEN
   The auditor general has turned in his report on the State's accounts for 1997 in which he notes deficiencies in the finance ministry, notably over unauthorized payments to the national airline Air Seychelles and to other state-owned companies.  (...)  [85 words]   [$2,1]
COMOROS ISLANDS
MAURITIAN AUDIT MISSION
   Mauritian Leader of the Opposition Paul Berenger met Comoros Islands opposition politician Abbas Djoussouf (who has since become the archipelago's prime minister) on Mauritius at the end of October.  (...)  [95 words]   [$2,1]
EAST AFRICA
CAIRO TURNS SOUTH
   Egypt is clearly seeking to enlarge the field of action of its diplomacy and trade on the African continent, beyond its immediate zone of interest as represented by the Horn of Africa and Sudan. But just as obviously, installing a government in Khartoum which would be more kindly disposed towards Egypt remains priority number one.  (...)  [671 words]   [$11,2]

WHO'S WHO
SOMALIA
ABDULLAHI AKA GABIYOW
   The Absame clan (one of the most three important of the Darod tribe) which, allied with the Harti of general Said Mohamed Hersi aka Morgan, controls the port of Kisimayo, has just ended a convention which assembled five hundred delegates.  (...)  [194 words]   [$7]
CANADA/UGANDA
ERNEST WAMBA DIA WAMBA
   The leader of the political wing of the Congolese rebellion, Ernest Wamba Dia Wamba, accompanied by his military chief Jean Pierre Ondekane and by Gorretti Ramm, have been living at Kampala's Nile hotel since several days at the invitation of the Ugandan defence ministry.  (...)  [300 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
PIERRE RANDRIANTSEVA
   The new secretary general of national defence, Pierre Randriantseva, who was named at the end of November by decree of the council of ministers, replacing gendarmerie general Charles Rabemananjara, is on an ejector seat.  (...)  [170 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
ISRAEL SKOSANA
   The present chairman of the regional airline South African Express Airlines, Israel Skosana, is to ground himself and turn to the banking sector.  (...)  [201 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS & PROJECTS
MOZAMBIQUE
STILL NO STOCK EXCHANGE IN MAPUTO
   Inauguration of the stock exchange in Maputo, where the internal regulations had been approved by Mozambique's council of ministers, will not take place before next year.  (...)  [225 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
MOZAMBIQUE
STUDY CONTRACT FOR FLUOR DANIEL
 [143 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA/FRANCE
SAFMARINE SUITORS
 [76 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
CONTRACT RENEWED FOR BIVAC
 [136 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA
ONE MORE SHIP IN THE OCEAN FOR CGM
 [34 words]   [FREE]
SOMALIA
EU HAPPY ON REVAMPS
   A report by Quest Consult having concluded on the relative success of the first programme of European rehabilitation for Somalia (38 million ecu over the period 1994-1997), the European  (...)  [367 words]   [$7]
ERITREA/NETHERLANDS
SOON A POLICE SCHOOL
   The Netherlands is to finance the construction of a police training school at Dekemhare, south of Asmara. A Call for bids was issued for local companies likely to be able to carry  (...)  [191 words]   [$7]

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
ETHIOPIA
SALINI RETURNS IN FORCE
 [298 words]   [$7]
ZIMBABWE
BIWATER BOOT
 [160 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
MAPUTO STAMPS ON AUTO CONTRABAND
 [127 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
REDISTRIBUTION OF GOLD CONCESSIONS
   The company Branch Energy, linked to the South African security services company recruiting mercenaries Executive Outcomes, has ceased its mining activities in Uganda.  (...)  [342 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
EUROPEAN CREDIT FOR ADDIS WATER
   The European Union has decided to allocate 19.5 million ecu under the Eighth European Development Fund to finance a three-year project to improve Addis Ababa's drinking water supp  (...)  [255 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
C OF C DOESN'T LIKE BUDGET
   Seychelles Chamber of Commerce and Industry doesn't appreciate the 1999 budget and has said so.  (...)  [287 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
HENRI GUDIN DU PAVILLON
   From January 4, Henri Gudin Du Pavillon will become chairman and managing director of BFV-Société Générale, the new bank set up on Madagascar by the French high street bank Société  (...)  [62 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
THERE'S EXEMPTION
   USAID local representation in Antananarivo Mrs. Karen M. Poe wrote to Indian Ocean Newsletter on December 3 to contest the irregularity of a Customs exemption from which dairy company  (...)  [263 words]   [$2,1]
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