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Francis Soler
SUDAN Editor in Chief
AT DAGGERS DRAWN
Ten years after they arrived in power in Khartoum, head of state general Omar Hassan Al Bachir and his former mentor Hassan Al Turabi are facing each other in a struggle for power which could end up any way. To prevent Parliament, where Al Turabi is Speaker, adopting two constitutional amendments (election of provincial governors and a prime minister responsible to Parliament) which he disagreed with, the president simply dissolved the chamber on December 13, the day before MPs were due to vote (ION 880). (...)   [688 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS & POWER
SOUTH AFRICA
MASEKELA TO HEAD SABC?
   Ex-South African ambassador to France Barbara Masekela might be promoted to be the next board chairman of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).  (...)  [252 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
A LIST OF DEBTORS WHICH DISPLEASES
   The entourage of head of state Didier Ratsiraka has reacted sharply to the recent publication in a Malagasy-language daily newspaper of a list of 68 companies which are debtors of BFV (state-owned bank now privatized) for an individual amount of more than 500 million Malagasy francs (FFr.  (...)  [361 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
COUNTRY CUT IN TWO
   Provisional early returns from Mozambique's general election on December 3-4 reveal a country still politically sliced in two. Incumbent head of state Joaquim Chissano and his FRELIMO government party are largely ahead of the pack in the southern provinces (Gaza, Inhambane, Maputo) and perhaps also in Cabo Delgado (in the north), but appear to have been beaten in five central and northern provinces (Manica, Nampula, Sofala, Tete, Zambezia) by their rivals the RENAMO opposition party and its leader Afonso Dhlakama.  (...)  [470 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
PARTI TRAVAILLISTE IN BATTLE ORDER
   Galvanized by its success in two bye-elections since it was returned to power in December 1995, Parti Travailliste of prime minister Navin Ramgoolam is drawing itself up in order of battle for the forthcoming general election.  (...)  [352 words]   [$7]
ERITREA
THE WEARYING WEIGHT OF WAR
   Without threatening the popularity of the Eritrean government, discontent over the border dispute with Ethiopia is rising in Asmara. An indicator of this state of mind reside in the multiplication of the number of absentees or deserters, as also in the police officers charged with chasing them.  (...)  [407 words]   [$7]
FRANCE/MADAGASCAR
BERNARD HAIZET
   While he does have seven children of whom four are married (ION 879), the new director general of Bank of Africa Madagascar has been remarried for several years with Anne Dalmas.  (...)  [83 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
NEW OLF LEADER
   According to certain information, a meeting of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF, armed opposition) leadership which is believed to have been held in an unspecified place on November 22-27, carried out a major reshuffle of the organization's management.  (...)  [159 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
VISHNU LUTCHMEENARAIDOO
   The former Mauritian finance minister is chairman of State Bank of Mauritius (SBM Ltd) since December 15, succeeding Regis Yat Sin, who is head of the civil service.  (...)  [133 words]   [$2,1]
SUDAN
AT DAGGERS DRAWN
   Ten years after they arrived in power in Khartoum, head of state general Omar Hassan Al Bachir and his former mentor Hassan Al Turabi are facing each other in a struggle for power which could end up any way. To prevent Parliament, where Al Turabi is Speaker, adopting two constitutional amendments (election of provincial governors and a prime minister responsible to Parliament) which he disagreed with, the president simply dissolved the chamber on December 13, the day before MPs were due to vote (ION 880).  (...)  [688 words]   [$11,2]

WHO'S WHO
EAST AFRICA/UNITED STATES
JOYCE NEU
   The director of the Jimmy Carter Centre's Conflict Resolution Programme conducted negotiations between Sudan and Uganda which led to the agreement signed December 8 by heads of state Yoweri Museveni (Uganda) and Omar Hassan Al Bachir (Sudan).  (...)  [218 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
MARGARET KIGOZI
   The former public relations manager for Crown Bottlers Ltd -- which works with the Pepsi Cola group among others -- Margaret Kigozi is finally the choice to head Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), the organism charged with attracting foreign investors to Uganda.  (...)  [140 words]   [$7]
KENYA
JAN MUTAI
   The former managing director of the now defunct Kenya Post and Telecommunications Corporation (KPTC) beat candidates from three African nations (Egypt, Uganda, Zambia) on December 7 and was elected incoming secretary general of African Telecommunications union (ATU).  (...)  [188 words]   [$7]
EAST AFRICA/FRANCE
MARTHA STEIN-SOCHAS
   The current coordinator of the financial section of Proparco -- subsidiary of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) for private-sector loans -- Martha Stein-Sochas will take over in January 2000 management of the AFD regional branch in Nairobi, which apart from Kenya has competence for Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania.  (...)  [255 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS & PROJECTS
TANZANIA
THE MISFITS OF PETROLEUM LIBERALIZATION
   The new private shareholders of Tanzania Italy Petroleum Refinery (TIPER) have still not been able to take over control of it, several months after having acquired half of its sha  (...)  [422 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
UGANDA
ESKOM'S INTEREST IN UEB
 [134 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
NEW START FOR PECHE ET FROID OCEAN INDIEN PLANT
 [72 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
GAS PROJECT FOR SICOR
 [185 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
MAYBE AL AMOUDI WOULD LIKE A COKE?
   Saudi industrial magnate Mohamed Al Amoudi is still extending his commercial empire in Ethiopia (eighteen companies at the latest count) and has now launched into partnerships.  (...)  [208 words]   [$7]
KENYA
HAIR'S BREADTH FROM CASH CRISIS
   The Kenyan government is moving heaven and earth with its fund donors to find a way to finance its budget deficit and avoid enormous social unrest if it fails to pay civil servants  (...)  [498 words]   [$7]

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
MAURITIUS
PRIVATIZATION PUT OFF IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS
 [250 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
HOSTAGE OF CONFLICT BETWEEN PRETORIA AND WASHINGTON
 [373 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
THE DIAMOND BOARD IN THE SIGHTS
   After the latest escapade of the Belgian Claude Nobels, the government's diamonds assessor, the Diamond Board is in the sights of the anti-corruption commission directed by judge Willem  (...)  [239 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
EUROPEAN CASH FOR ROADS
   The European Development Fund (EDF) is to consider a credit line of 67 million euro to finance rehabilitation and maintenance of two important sections of Madagascar's roads netwo  (...)  [355 words]   [$7]
KENYA
CREDIT LINE FOR NORTHERN CORRIDOR
   The European Union has approved a credit line of 55 million euro to rehabilitate the Mai Maihiu-Naivasha-Lanet section (96 km) of highway in the Rift Valley, the backbone of Kenya's  (...)  [242 words]   [$2,1]
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