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Francis Soler
SUDAN Editor in Chief
IN-FIGHTING GETS TOUGHER
Not only is the conflict between Sudanese head of state Omar Hassan al Bachir and former Speaker of Parliament Hassan al Turabi not on the road to peace, it seems now to have a tendency to become international. Taking advantage of al Turabi's absence on a visit to Qatar, al Bachir dismissed the entire government and suspended the walis (provincial governors) on December 31, in a bid to keep his rival's supporters away from these jobs and to try to attract certain northerner opponents. (...)   [707 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS & POWER
UGANDA
REBELLION TARGETS THE OFFICERS
   Uganda's Directorate of Military Intelligence is investigating a fresh case of the suspicious death of an officer of Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF, Ugandan army) which might prove to be the work of anti-government rebels.  (...)  [231 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
RENE REJIGS HIS TEAM
   The modification of functions for five of the ten Seychelles government ministers, announced by head of state France Albert Rene on December 30, came into force in Mahe on January 4.  (...)  [342 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
LABOUR IS RIDING HIGH
   A survey carried out by the French institute SOFRES last month on a representative sample of Mauritian adults has indicated renewed popularity for the Labour Party and the government but a decline in that of the MSM-MMM (opposition) federation.  (...)  [366 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
RENAMO MIGHT BOYCOTT PARLIAMENT
   Now that Mozambique's Tribunal Supremo has dismissed RENAMO's demand for a recount of December's general election, the opposition party's leader Afonso Dhlakama has threatened to tell party MPs to boycott Parliament.  (...)  [244 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
SAD FESTIVITIES ON ROBBEN ISLAND
   They were all there, the African National Congress old-timers and former South African political prisoners (with the notable exception of Cyril Ramaphosa) for an all-too official New Year Eve's party held on Robben Island in the presence of head of state Thabo Mbeki and his predecessor former president Nelson Mandela.  (...)  [238 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA/SOMALIA
READYING AN ATTACK ON KISIMAYO
   General Mohamed Said Hersi (aka Morgan), leader of the Somali National Front (SNF) faction allied with Ethiopia, was in Addis Ababa last week.  (...)  [90 words]   [$2,1]
DJIBOUTI/ETHIOPIA
MILITARY COOPERATION ACCORD
   The Djibouti and Ethiopian governments signed a protocol of understanding on military cooperation on December 2, 1999.  (...)  [180 words]   [$2,1]
COMOROS ISLANDS
AZZALI LIKES THE TASTE OF POWER
   The Comoros president, colonel Assumani Azzali, has no doubt taken to the taste of power and no longer seems inclined to hand over power to civilians in April, as he had initially promised.  (...)  [123 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
HOME AFFAIRS MINISTRY OFFICIALS CHARGED
   Out of eleven civil servants of the South African ministry of home affairs to have been indicted in December on charges ranging from corruption to drunkenness during office hours, five have been dismissed the service.  (...)  [144 words]   [$2,1]
SUDAN
IN-FIGHTING GETS TOUGHER
   Not only is the conflict between Sudanese head of state Omar Hassan al Bachir and former Speaker of Parliament Hassan al Turabi not on the road to peace, it seems now to have a tendency to become international. Taking advantage of al Turabi's absence on a visit to Qatar, al Bachir dismissed the entire government and suspended the walis (provincial governors) on December 31, in a bid to keep his rival's supporters away from these jobs and to try to attract certain northerner opponents.  (...)  [707 words]   [$11,2]

WHO'S WHO
ETHIOPIA/KENYA
GEORGE AGOI
   Head of state Daniel arap Moi on December 27 designated major general (ret.) George Agoi as the country's new ambassador to Ethiopia.  (...)  [183 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
MARCO BONI
   The South African foreign ministry's spokesperson since 1995, Marco Boni, who resigned last month, this week lost the case he filed in the High Court in Pretoria in a dispute with the ministry over his golden handshake.  (...)  [231 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
ABDUL MINTY
   The present deputy director general for multilateral affairs in the South African foreign ministry is one of the candidates for a top United Nations job.  (...)  [159 words]   [$7]
ITALY/EUROPEAN UNION
RINO SERRI
   Italy's deputy foreign minister has been designated as the European Union special envoy to help find a solution to the Eritrea-Ethiopia border dispute.  (...)  [173 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS & PROJECTS
KENYA
IMF TALKS RESUME
   A joint International Monetary Fund and World Bank mission is due in Nairobi to discuss resumption of financial aid talks with Kenyan finance minister Chris Okemo on January 24.  (...)  [284 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
SOUTH AFRICA
FATAL CONTRACT
 [155 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
ANOTHER IPP
 [137 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
INVESTIGATING PETROCHEMICAL STORAGE
 [118 words]   [$2,1]
TANZANIA
TTCL WANTS ITS CELLPHONE LICENCE
   Tanzania Telecommunications Company Ltd (TTCL, still state-owned but heading for privatization) has filed an application with the regulator Tanzania Communications Commission (TCC)  (...)  [361 words]   [$7]
ZIMBABWE
EDUCATION CHEQUES FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLCHILDREN
   Some 257,000 schoolchildren in eight Zimbabwean districts (8 percent of the total school population) should benefit from European financing (11.4 million euro) aimed at improving their  (...)  [287 words]   [$7]

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
MADAGASCAR
AWARD OF LICENCES UNDER DEBATE
 [328 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
EURO RSCG FLUFFS MEGA-SHOW
 [307 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
EUROPEAN UNION INTERESTED IN ZAMBEZE WATER
   More than three-quarters of a 11.6 million euro credit line the European Union approved for Mozambique last month will go to financing the creation of an organism, baptized ARA Zambeze,  (...)  [249 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
OLD DIRTY LINEN RESURFACES
   An investigation by Madagascar's secret service (DGIE) into suspected embezzlement in the early-1990s during the regime of impeached ex-president Albert Zafy has just resurfaced.  (...)  [397 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
RATS FOR DEMINING
   Sometime during January, a team of scientists from Antwerp University in Belgium will disembark in Dar es Salaam to test on African terrain some experiments in training rats to locate  (...)  [178 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
HEAVY REVENUE LOSSES ON SUGAR
   Syndicat Mauricien du Sucre chairman Michel Hardy has confirmed that revenues of the sugar industry on Mauritius for 1999 will be 4 billion rupees (US$1 = 25.  (...)  [147 words]   [$2,1]
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