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Francis Soler
KENYA Editor in Chief
KPLC BLACKED OUT
A door slammed suddenly shut on November 24 — on the import of a consignment of electric generators by Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC). Negotiations on the purchase were on the point of closing with several European suppliers but according to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Dr. (...)   [666 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS & POWER
MOZAMBIQUE
RENAMO LOOKING FOR $200,000
   RENAMO (Mozambican opposition) convened about fifty of its officials in exile and its sympathizers in Lisbon last weekend to debate the electoral campaign under way in Mozambique.  (...)  [173 words]   [$7]
CANADA/UGANDA
HUMAN COST OF THE WAR GETS HEAVIER
   The human cost of the war suddenly got heavier for the Ugandan expeditionary force in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the past two weeks.  (...)  [336 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
GRAND MANOEUVRES BEFORE IOC
   The approach of the summit of heads of state of members of Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) to which the president, colonel Assumani Azzali, has not been invited has relaunched the diplomatic manoeuvres on the separatist crisis on the Comoro Islands.  (...)  [439 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
TENSION RISING IN GAMBELA
   According to its critics, the pro-government party of Gambela Regional State situated south-west of Addis Ababa on the frontier with Sudan has accentuated its repressive actions towards militants and supporters of the opposition, doubtless in expectation of the general election next year.  (...)  [280 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
POLEMICS IN THE OPPOSITION
   Using press and opposition radio stations, the polemic is worsening between the leader of Coalition of Alternative Forces for Peace and Democracy in Ethiopia (CAFPDE), Beyene Petros in Addis Ababa and the chairman of Coalition of Ethiopian Opposition Political Organizations (CEOPO), Negede Gobezie, who lives in Belgium.  (...)  [327 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
COMMUNITY LEADERS IN UNITED STATES
   The US State Department invited three Mauritian leaders representing the Hindu, Christian and Moslem communities to participate in a voyage of study on the settlement of conflicts, from November 15 to December 3, in the United States.  (...)  [106 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA
CHURCHES DO NOT WANT REFERENDUM
   Uganda Joint Christian Council (UJCC) managed by the head of the orthodox church Jonah Lwanga and representing the principal Christian churches of the country (including the Anglican and Catholic churches) considered last week that a national referendum on the political form the citizens desired would serve no use in the current situation and that it was better to economize the planned expenditure and make Parliament take the decision.  (...)  [120 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
MELES ZENAWI
   When he met, for almost two hours, on November 13 in Addis Ababa, the delegation of American businessmen (of whom several were of Ethiopian origin) on a trade mission with the Ethio-American Trade and Investment Council (EATIC), the Ethiopian prime minister gave them a speech which surprised and delighted them.  (...)  [137 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
JOURNALISTS IN THE RACE
   Both RENAMO (opposition) and FRELIMO (governmental) have several journalists among their candidates for the general election next week.  (...)  [113 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI
AHMED SALAH
   The Djibouti marathon runner was imprisoned on political charges in Djibouti on November 24.  (...)  [68 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
UNITED STATES/SUDAN
DENNIS BENNETT
   Chairman of the company ViTrade which distributes information via its Web site (www.vitrade.com) to denounce petroleum investments in Sudan, Dennis Bennett is one of the principal organizers of a campaign aiming to force American pension funds to sell their holdings in the Canadian petroleum company Talisman Energy Inc.  (...)  [249 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
RAM RAMSEWAK
   A new general manager of State Investment Corporation Management Services (SICMS), the state-owned company responsible for the management of casinos on Mauritius, will soon succeed Preetam Prayag.  (...)  [155 words]   [$7]
LIBYA/SUDAN
ALI AWIDAN
   Libya's new ambassador to Ethiopia will be returning to a country he knows well. Ali Awidan was embassy councilor in Addis Ababa from 1982 to 1990 during the regime of former president Mengistu Haile Mariam, before being declared persona non grata and expelled in April 1990 along with another Libyan diplomat Saled Saled, officially on the grounds of being a threat to state security.  (...)  [214 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
GUY VAN ASS
   The last director of Madagascar's state-owned BTM celebrated his departure from the post with a farewell reception at the Antananarivo Hilton on November 24, the eve of the bank's takeover by Bank of Africa (BOA, see page 5).  (...)  [115 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS & PROJECTS
SOUTH AFRICA
RELAUNCHING AN OLD DURBAN PROJECT
   Now five years old, the Durban Point Waterfront project, a large real-estate complex on 70 hectares at the entrance to Durban harbour, might see a start to realization next year.  (...)  [240 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
COMOROS ISLANDS
DELEGATION OF ERJ IN MORONI
 [214 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
SWISSAIR IS WELL ANCHORED
 [187 words]   [$2,1]
TANZANIA
TAZARA IN TORMENT
   Employees of Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), the 1,769-km rail line linking Dar es Salaam and Kapiti-Mphoshi (Zambia), have distributed a letter protesting against a recent  (...)  [372 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
A VICIOUS CIRCLE OF FINANCIAL CRISIS
   The Seychelles vice president and minister of finance James Michel took advantage of the presentation of the Year 2000 budget in parliament on November 23 to announce the suppression  (...)  [374 words]   [$7]

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
SOUTHERN AFRICA
ACCOR PROJECTS
 [285 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
DISAPPOINTED AMBITIONS IN AQUACULTURE
 [365 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
BOA FLIES OFF
   Born of the takeover of state-owned bank BTM by a foreign consortium (50 percent) led by Bank of Africa (BOA) in partnership with Malagasy interests — State (15 percent), ARO-FIARO  (...)  [232 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
YEMENIA REPLACES AIR COMORES
   With the company Emirates Airlines of UAE envisaging, officially for reasons of security, to suspend its flights to Moroni in mid-January, the Comoro Islands leaders went to San'a  (...)  [396 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
AHMED HASSAN DIRIA
   The chairman of Tanzania Communications Commission announced this week that the Tanzanian government was going to sell 35 percent of its holding in Tanzania Telecommunications Company  (...)  [63 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
HARRY TIRVENGADUM
   The former chairman and MD of Air Mauritius who later became director general of Air Afrique, is going to look after the Indian Ocean Regional Fund (IORF) of 400 million rupees recently  (...)  [49 words]   [$2,1]
REUNION ISLAND
FRENCH AND EUROPEAN CREDITS UP
   Credit lines granted by the French government to its overseas possession Reunion Island in the framework of state-region contract plans for the period 2000-2006 are up sharply compared  (...)  [216 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
NO IMF AID THIS FISCAL YEAR
   It is not very likely that the release of an eventual financial aid from International Monetary Fund for Kenya will occur before the end of the current fiscal year 1999-2000.  (...)  [202 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
KPLC BLACKED OUT
   A door slammed suddenly shut on November 24 — on the import of a consignment of electric generators by Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC). Negotiations on the purchase were on  (...)  [666 words]   [$11,2]
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