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Francis Soler
MAURITIUS Editor in Chief
DON'T LOSE YOUR FILOFAX
Offshore banking is not the only ace card Mauritius holds (ION 834). The country is exporting its industries' know-how to Africa, not simply in the textiles sector (as in Madagascar) but now also in the sugar industry, aeronautical management, consultancy, and the hotel and catering sector. (...)   [685 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS & POWER
ETHIOPIA
OPPOSITION MANOEUVRES
   Several Amhara political opponents living in exile are planning to meet the leader of All Amhara People's Organization (AAPO, opposition), Asrat Woldeyes, who has been released from detention by the Ethiopian government so he can receive medical treatment in the United States.  (...)  [217 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
HEADS START ROLLING
   After general Salim Saleh (who last month resigned from his job as military adviser to his brother, head of state Yoweri Museveni) and minister for privatization Matthew Rukikaire (who was fired), it's the turn of the inspector general of police Cossy Odomel to move out of his post.  (...)  [436 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
ARM-WRESTLING BETWEEN BECHIR AND TURABI
   Sudanese head of state general Omar Hassan El Bechir and the Speaker of Parliament Hassan Al Turabi have been at daggers drawn for several weeks.  (...)  [358 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
WATCHERS WATCHED
   Tanzania's National Examination Council (NEC) has suspended thirteen of its officials following the discovery of massive fraud in the national O Level examinations.  (...)  [292 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
EXIT THE RND BARONS
   Before leaving Moroni on January 3 for a one-week official visit to Sharjah (UAE) and Abu Dhabi, Comoros Islands prime minister Abbas Djoussouf obtained the approval of acting president Tadjiddin Ben Said Massunde to name two new ministers in order to complete the government formed at the end of November.  (...)  [391 words]   [$7]
ANGOLA/MOZAMBIQUE
JAIME GONCALVES
   The Bishop of Beira was due to be a member of a delegation of church officials from Portuguese-speaking countries going to Luanda on January 8 in the framework of mediation intended to try to re-establish peace in that country, where fighting has broken out again between government troops and UNITA (opposition) units.  (...)  [57 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
NEW CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL
   The Mozambican government and Parliament are preparing to create an organism to supervise the constitutionality of laws.  (...)  [44 words]   [FREE]
SEYCHELLES
LOCAL LAWYERS LOOSE IRE
   The Bar Association of Seychelles on December 31 deplored the fact that no Seychelles nationals are among judicial appointments announced by head of state France Albert Rene and taking effect in January 1999.  (...)  [218 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
SOMALIA
ABDULLAHI SAID SAMATAR
   The authorities of Puntland Regional State (in north-eastern Somalia) last month designated a chief of police, colonel Abdullahi Said Samatar.  (...)  [201 words]   [$7]
KENYA
REUBEN MARAMBII
   It is a banker of experience who has just been designated on secondment as managing director of National Bank of Kenya.  (...)  [204 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS/MOZAMBIQUE
JEAN LUC HAREL
   Manager of the FUEL sugar refinery on Mauritius since July 1993, Jean Luc Harel is to be seconded from next month to Mozambique to run Marromeu's sugar plant, which is to be rehabilitated by the Mauritian group.  (...)  [175 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
JOSE NORBERTO CARRILHO
   The vice president of Tribunal Supremo is not expected to see himself renewed in these functions by head of state Joaquim Chissano.  (...)  [217 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS & PROJECTS
SEYCHELLES
MAHE WANTS TO BEAT PORT LOUIS
   The Seychelles government wants to develop its offshore financial services so it can grab a share in the market of the world circulation of foreign currency, thanks to the signature  (...)  [346 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
ERITREA
DRY WELLS FOR ANADARKO
 [169 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
RISKY PRIVATIZATION FOR DIRE DAWA CEMENT FACTORY
 [114 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
AID OFFER FOR BCP
 [111 words]   [$2,1]
ZIMBABWE
IMF HASN'T SAID 'YES'
   Harare financial market immediately drew the inevitable consequences on January 7 of the arrival of an International Monetary Fund mission:  (...)  [208 words]   [$7]
KENYA
NBK MANAGEMENT GETS A SHAKE-UP
   After refloating National Bank of Kenya (NBK) following its cashflow crisis in November, Central Bank of Kenya on December 31 installed a new management team.  (...)  [404 words]   [$7]

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
MADAGASCAR
NEW PETROLEUM PROSPECTORS
 [267 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
EXPORT BOOM FOR COFFEE
 [195 words]   [$7]
KENYA
NO TAKERS FOR KENYA RE
 [142 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
ALLIANCE AIRLINE ACCORDS REVISED
   The Tanzanian transport ministry is studying possible revision of agreements under which state-owned Air Tanzania Corporation ceded some air traffic rights to Alliance Airline, a regional  (...)  [310 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
ROSE GOLD BETTERS BLACK GOLD
   From the end of January, the European market will again be available to products of Mozambique's fishing fleet, where exports represented US$99 million in 1997 (44 percent of Mozambique's  (...)  [209 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
SOMALILAND AXIS STUDIED
   A group of Ethiopian military recently settled down in the village of Abdelkader near the border between Ethiopia and Somaliland, in north-west Somalia, and tried to push on as far  (...)  [152 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
AMIN HIRIDJEE
   The year has started badly for the boss of Malagasy company Ocean Trade, whose name appears on the list of companies which benefitted from undue fiscal exemptions.  (...)  [87 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA
IFC CREDIT LINES SHARPLY UP
   International Finance Corporation (IFC, the World Bank subsidiary specializing in private-sector loans) increased its credit lines to Uganda by 70 percent in 1998-1999, raising them  (...)  [142 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
JONES NZOMO
   Following the secondment of Reuben Marambii to National Bank of Kenya, several changes have been made at Central Bank of Kenya.  (...)  [61 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
FRELIMO TARGETS STATE-OWNED COMPANIES
   During last month's meeting of FRELIMO central committee, the government party "demanded" that Government must "redefine" the judicial notion of state-owned companies.  (...)  [108 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
DON'T LOSE YOUR FILOFAX
   Offshore banking is not the only ace card Mauritius holds (ION 834). The country is exporting its industries' know-how to Africa, not simply in the textiles sector (as in Madagascar)  (...)  [685 words]   [$11,2]
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