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UGANDA

Editor in Chief

UPDF MOODS AND COUNTERMOODS IN DRC

Deployment of Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF, Ugandan army) units in Democratic Republic of Congo has exacerbated many failings (involvement of private business, mismanagement, etc) and sparked marks of indiscipline and bad temper in its ranks. (...) [637 words] [$8.2]

POLITICS & POWER


MADAGASCAR
NAZARALY BECOMES TEST CASE
The 6 billion Malagasy francs fine (about FF.6 million) Madagascar's Customs services has inflicted on Yakataly Nazaraly, a businessman of Indian sub-continent origin who was convicted of Customs fraud (ION 838), has blossomed into a test case for the deputy prime minister in charge of the budget, Pierrot Rajaonarivelo and his apparent determination to put some order in Madagascar's trading practices. (...) [260 words] [$4.7]


SUDAN
KERUBINO'S TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS
Khartoum's former back-up man Kerubino Kwanyin Bol, who rejoined the Sudanese armed rebellion in January 1998 then installed himself in Nairobi (ION 813), has just returned to Bahr al Ghazal Province in pretty incredible circumstances. (...) [395 words] [$4.7]


COMOROS ISLANDS
CLIFFHANGER CALM ON ANJOUAN
A precarious truce has settled on Anjouan Island after bloody confrontations at the beginning of December between partisans and rivals of separatist island president Fundi Abdallah Ibrahim (ION 837). (...) [347 words] [$4.7]


DJIBOUTI
FLAP IN FRUD
The faction of Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD, ex-Afar rebellion rallied to the government) headed by government ministers Ougoureh Kifleh Ahmed and Ali Mohamed Daoud (aka Jean Marie) was shaken over the past two weeks by the untimely initiative of a FRUD MP Abatte Ebo Adou. (...) [325 words] [$4.7]


MOZAMBIQUE
CHISSANO FAMILY TARGETTED
The recent arrest of Jorge Fidalgo in Maputo on drug trafficking charges has swung the spotlight onto the pervasive commercial relations of head of state Joaquim Chissano's family. (...) [384 words] [$4.7]


ETHIOPIA
HASSAN ALI'S MOODS
The vice chairman of Oromia Regional State (and leader of the pro-government party OPDO) Hassan Ali has been on a visit to the United States for some time, apparently with his wife and children, feeding a rumour that he may not intend to return home to settle down. (...) [145 words] [$1.5]


COMOROS ISLANDS
A GOOD START
The first two measures of new Comoros Islands prime minister Abbas Djoussouf seem to augur well. (...) [129 words] [$1.5]


UGANDA
UPDF MOODS AND COUNTERMOODS IN DRC
Deployment of Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF, Ugandan army) units in Democratic Republic of Congo has exacerbated many failings (involvement of private business, mismanagement, etc) and sparked marks of indiscipline and bad temper in its ranks. (...) [637 words] [$8.2]

WHO'S WHO


MAURITIUS
MOHUNLALL GOBURDHUN
The new Mauritian ambassador to Egypt is career diplomat Mohunlall Goburdhun. He will replace outgoing Haroon Abdool who had been named to the post from the quota of ambassadors attributed to the governing Labour Party but has now been recalled following an unfavourable report. (...) [201 words] [$4.7]


MADAGASCAR
JUSTIN RAKOTONIAINA
Created in December 1996 when Norbert Ratsirahonana (today in opposition) was prime minister and acting president, the Commission Nationale des Droits de l'Homme de Madagascar has only just seen its members officially named and Justin Rakotoniaina put in as chairman. (...) [335 words] [$4.7]


SOUTH AFRICA
KEVIN WAKEFORD
A shock-tactics lobbyist will direct the South African Chamber of Business (SACOB) from March first 1999. It is Kevin Wakeford, the former head of Port Elizabeth Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PERCCI). (...) [141 words] [$4.7]


SEYCHELLES
HENDRICK GAPPY
The Seychelles' electoral commissioner Gerard Ah Sung, whose five-year term came to an end in December, has been replaced by Hendrick Gappy, until now director of the government's Management and Information Systems Division. (...) [125 words] [$4.7]

ECONOMICS & PROJECTS


	MOZAMBIQUE
	MINE-SNIFFING AIRCRAFT?
	A team from International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Services (ITC in its Dutch initials) in The Netherlands headed by J. (...) [275 words] [$4.7]

COMPANIES


MOZAMBIQUE
AUDIT FOR BANCO MELLO
[114 words] [$1.5]


SEYCHELLES
SPACE 95
[168 words] [$1.5]


AFRICA
ONE FOOT ON THE CONTINENT FOR DENTON HALL
[118 words] [$1.5]


	AFRICA
	PRIVATE SECTOR AND CONFLICT PREVENTION
	On the initiative of Geneva-based NGO Synergies Africa, a network of businessmen and organisms interested in conflict prevention is being set up following a conference entitled "Creating (...) [350 words] [$4.7]


	KENYA
	GREEN LIGHT FOR TIOMIN
	The Canadian mining company Tiomin Resources which has exploitation permits for mineralized sands on the Kenyan coastline has just found the means to finance the definitive feasibility (...) [233 words] [$4.7]

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE


MADAGASCAR
TELMA'S STRANGE DEBT
[242 words] [$4.7]


MAURITIUS
MERGERS IN TOURISM
[196 words] [$4.7]


SOMALILAND
RECYCLING TELECOMMUNICATIONS
[100 words] [$4.7]


	TANZANIA
	ILLOVO TROUBLES WITH KILOMBERO
	Workers at the recently privatized Kilombero Sugar Company in Morogoro Region are up in arms against the new company management which, they claim, has not respected all its promises (...) [316 words] [$4.7]


	ETHIOPIA
	HUNTING THE MIRACLE ALGAE
	Two directors of US firm Cell Tech, Daryl James Kollman and Christopher Corry, were in Ethiopia last month hoping to track down natural algae with reported energy-giving properties (...) [293 words] [$4.7]


	UNITED KINGDOM/KENYA
	MOHAMMAD SEAR
	The Business Link Sussex official will lead a BLS mission to Kenya and Uganda from February first to 11. (...) [62 words] [$1.5]


	ZIMBABWE
	EDDIE CROSS
	The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) representative to the conference for businessmen from East and Southern Africa (Pretoria, on December 14-16, See Private sector and conflict (...) [144 words] [$1.5]


	KENYA
	BOINETT OWES PRUDENTIAL BANK NOTHING
	General (retired) Wilson A. C. Boinett, who heads Kenya's intelligence services, wrote to Indian Ocean Newsletter on December 3 to complain about an article (Two banks shut down, ION (...) [214 words] [$1.5]


	SOUTH AFRICA
	FRANCOPHONES TO PRETORIA
	The Forum Francophone des Affaires (FFA) whose international bureau is chaired by Steve Gentili is setting up a national committee in the Republic of South Africa which should see (...) [147 words] [$1.5]


	MADAGASCAR
	NEW FAC CREDIT LINES
	The management committee of Fonds d'Aide et de Coopération (an organism of French ODA) on December 22 adopted three credit lines for Madagascar: (...) [111 words] [$1.5]


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