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previous Archive n° 885  - 12/24/1999 next   Francis Soler KENYA Editor in Chief STILL A GOOD CHANCE OF GOING BANKRUPT The approval by the International Monetary Fund management committee on December 17 of the conclusions of the negotiations with the Kenyan government on Article IV of the IMF Statutes (ION 874) has lifted the last obstacle to the resumption of discussions on financing. (...)   [697 words]  [$8.2] POLITICS & POWER MADAGASCAR RATSIRAKA MAKES THE OFFICERS WORK    Head of state Didier Ratsiraka has given several officers the impression he was approaching them for a high government responsibility, by asking them individually last month to conceive "a real programme of national recovery".  (...)  [209 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA MOVE ALONG THERE    Annoyed with an article on Tigray Development Association chairman Araya Zerihun published in The Indian Ocean Newsletter (ION 875), TDA's attorney in law, Eyassu Imnetu has intervened to clarify and rectify several points.  (...)  [471 words]  [$4.7] ZIMBABWE REPLACING NKOMO    During the congress of ZANU-PF held on December 20, Joseph Wilfred Msika, chairman of the government party since 1989, stepped down to be promoted second vice president of Zimbabwe.  (...)  [354 words]  [$4.7] SUDAN WRANGLING CONTINUES    Wrangling between head of state Omar Hassan Al Bachir and Hassan Al Turabi, where the president won the first round, now continues in the corridors of powers.  (...)  [377 words]  [$4.7] MAYOTTE ISLAND MDM ON THE ROPES    The French government has ordered the general council of the overseas possession of Mayotte Island and its seventeen municipal councils to give their views on setting up a future status as a 'departmental community' for the island.  (...)  [245 words]  [$4.7] MOZAMBIQUE JOAQUIM CHISSANO    Outgoing president Joaquim Chissano was re-elected in the presidential ballot of Mozambique's elections on December 3-5.  (...)  [145 words]  [$1.5] SOMALIA ABDULLAHI YUSSUF    The president of Puntland, the autonomous region in north-east Somalia, has tabled a government Bill in Parliament which if approved would disarm the civil population.  (...)  [105 words]  [$1.5] ETHIOPIA UNHCR DITCHES REFUGEES IN SUDAN    The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reportedly is withdrawing recognition of refugee status for Ethiopians living in Sudan and other countries in the region.  (...)  [157 words]  [$1.5] COMOROS ISLANDS PARIS AMBASSADOR COMES ONSTAGE    Although the family of Comoros ambassador to France Said Hassan Said Hachim has already returned home to Moroni and he was expected to join them in two or three months time, he and a group of Comoros intellectuals living in France have now launched into the creation of Mouvement Comorien pour la Reconciliation Nationale.  (...)  [225 words]  [$1.5] KENYA STILL A GOOD CHANCE OF GOING BANKRUPT    The approval by the International Monetary Fund management committee on December 17 of the conclusions of the negotiations with the Kenyan government on Article IV of the IMF Statutes (ION 874) has lifted the last obstacle to the resumption of discussions on financing.  (...)  [697 words]  [$8.2] WHO'S WHO MAURITIUS G. GNANY AND S. JAGATSINGH    Two new names of young professionals appear on the list of Mauritius Offshore Business Activities Authority (MOBAA) board: Gilbert Gnany, chief economist with Mauritius Commercial Bank (MCB), and Sanjay Jagatsingh, an econometrician who has returned home after studying in Canada (University of Montreal and McGill University).  (...)  [175 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA/FRANCE JACQUES DEWATRE    A network man with a sound knowledge of Africa is to take over from Alain Rouquie (who would be transferred to Brazil) as France's ambassador to Ethiopia.  (...)  [337 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA DAOUD IBSA GUDINA    The new chairman of Oromo Liberation Front (OLF, Ethiopian opposition), who succeeded Galassa Dilbo in this post (ION 884), is from Horo Gudru, a village in the western part of Wollega Region.  (...)  [204 words]  [$4.7] UNITED STATES/ETHIOPIA DOUGLAS L. SHELDON    United States Agency for International Development (USAID) last month designated a head of mission for Ethiopia to supervise the agency's US$38 million aid programme, one of the largest USAID has in Africa.  (...)  [152 words]  [$4.7] ECONOMICS & PROJECTS DJIBOUTI FRANCE PAYS A SMALL CONTRIBUTION    The parastatal Agence Française de Développement has granted a subsidy of FFr.13.7 million for the Djibouti budget in 1999, less than last year's grant of FFr.  (...)  [275 words]  [$4.7] COMPANIES ETHIOPIA PRIVATIZATION STUDY FOR ETFRUIT  [127 words]  [$1.5] TANZANIA NEW CELLULAR LICENCE FOR VODACOM TANZANIA  [159 words]  [$1.5] MOZAMBIQUE LONRHO QUITS  [93 words]  [$1.5] MADAGASCAR AN AIRWAYS COMPANY STILL NOT PRIVATIZED    Handing in tenders to take over Air Madagascar, planned for December 17, has again been postponed, this time at the request of a group of potential investors.  (...)  [343 words]  [$4.7] TANZANIA WHEN HUNTER BECOMES QUARRY    A US citizen of Indian sub-continent origin who has been living in Tanzania the past seven years to carry out activities in agriculture and mining has been accused of getting round  (...)  [366 words]  [$4.7] BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ETHIOPIA STILL EXAMINING TWO STUDIES IN CIVIL AVIATION  [313 words]  [$4.7] COMOROS ISLANDS A GERMAN INTERESTED IN THE AIRLINES  [147 words]  [$4.7] KENYA NICE DOUBLE-SCORE FOR VIVENDI  [102 words]  [$4.7] COMOROS ISLANDS HOW TO SEDUCE THE WORLD BANK    In a bid to make a good showing during the arrival in Moroni of a delegation of the World Bank in January, the president, colonel Assumani Azzali, has fixed two objectives for finance  (...)  [301 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA EU TO REVAMP KOMBOLCHA-MILLE HIGHWAY    The European Union is expected to issue an international Call for bids in first-quarter 2000 for renovation of the 132-km Kombolcha-Mille highway, which it will finance with a credit  (...)  [387 words]  [$4.7] MADAGASCAR/SEYCHELLES OIL DRILLING PLANNED    Madagascar and The Seychelles have begun talks with companies specializing in petroleum prospecting by seismics in order to carry out surveys covering the east and north-east of Madagascar  (...)  [76 words]  [$1.5] UGANDA EUROPEAN UNION TO FINANCE PRIMARY SCHOOLS    The European Union is to make 31 million euro available to continue the Ugandan government's Universal Primary School Programme, which it launched in December 1996 to give four children  (...)  [198 words]  [$1.5] DJIBOUTI/ETHIOPIA RAILWAY SETS TONGUES WAGGING    A project to build a completely new railway line from Djibouti northwards to Mille proposed by a South African company might be duplicated by a plan for a line to link Mille with Mekele  (...)  [117 words]  [$1.5]   previous Archive n° 885  - 12/24/1999 next

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