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Francis Soler
MOZAMBIQUE Editor in Chief
A decisive week for Cabora Bassa
The future of the Mozambican hydroelectric dam managed by the Portuguese firm Hidroeléctrica de Cabora Bassa (HCB) has been the subject of new round of discussions this week during the visit of Portuguese finance minister, Joaquim Pina Moura, to Johannesburg and Maputo. (...)   [671 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS & POWER
UGANDA
Museveni caught red handed
   The condemnation of the active role of president Yoweri Museveni in contracts for the purchase of arms, which is believed to have led to fraudulent transactions and pay-offs for friends, has become the favorite argument of the Ugandan president’s opponents.  (...)  [331 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
BSM candidates in the elections
   A number of officials from the Banque de la Solidarity de Madagascar (BSM) – a local private bank in gestation of which Sophie Ranaivo, the daughter of president Didier Ratsiraka, is a major shareholder – are candidates in provincial elections scheduled for December 3.  (...)  [310 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
Epidemic increases Amhara’s woes
   A typhoid mimicking epidemic which has broken out amongst students at the Bahr Dar University has led the local population to focus their discontent on the authorities of the Amhara regional state.  (...)  [362 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
A duel at AKFM Renouveau
   The approach of the December provincial elections has sharpened the differences within the AKFM-Renouveau, the party of the former president of the national assembly, Richard Andriamanjato.  (...)  [299 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
A slow demobilization
   The program to demobilize soldiers and gendarmes in Djibouti is slow taking off. According to a confidential International Monetary Fund (IMF) document of last July, only 344 men have been demobilized out of a planned total of 1468.  (...)  [255 words]   [$7]
SOMALIA
Acting president visits Addis
   The acting president of Somalia, Abdi Qassem Salad Hassan arrived in Addis Ababa late the 15 November and is to meet with Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi.  (...)  [121 words]   [$2,1]
CONGO - K/UGANDA
Wamba suspicious of the UPDF
   Even if they saved his skin during recent confrontations with other members of his rebel movement in the Congo Democratic Republic 1(DRC), the head of RCD-Bunia, Wamba dia Wamba, is growing continually more suspicious of officers within the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF Ugandan army).  (...)  [89 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
Mad dogs
   A film showing six white policemen (since arrested) having three black immigrants savaged by their dogs, which last week caused outrage in South Africa is, in fact, a film made by the South African police itself.  (...)  [184 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
ETHIOPIA
Hailu Shawel
   The All Amhara People’s Organization (AAPO, opposition) has chosen a new president to succeed Asrat Woldeyes, who died in May 1999.  (...)  [209 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
Jeffrey Scougal
   The present Australian high commissioner in Mauritius, Chris Marchant, is to leave his post towards the end of this year and will be replaced by Jeffrey Scougall.  (...)  [97 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
Tso Modise
   Nominated head of Saatchi & Saatchi little less than a year ago, sixty-year-old Tso Modise, is the least known of black advertising gurus.  (...)  [283 words]   [$7]
KENYA
John Munge
   The Kenyan government has appointed a major stockbroker as Commissioner General of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to replace John Msafali whose two-year tem of office has come to an end.  (...)  [211 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS & PROJECTS
ZIMBABWE
IPG renews with Noczim
   After having suspended its supply of oil products to the National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (Noczim) for some time in August 2000, the Kuwaiti Independent Petroleum Group (IPG), has  (...)  [281 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
MOZAMBIQUE
Armor Holdings - Good results
 [102 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
Mauritius Telecom - A contract in Lesotho
 [131 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
Island Shipping Company - Cruises to Madagascar
 [88 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
C/R International - A new contract
 [66 words]   [$2,1]
COMOROS ISLANDS
Big business for ComoreTel
   ComoreTel, the subsidiary of the American company, ERJ, has managed to interest a major American company in the commercialization of Comoran code (269) freephone numbers.  (...)  [298 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
An airline divided in lots?
   A two-page note written this week sets out the point of view of Nirina Andriamanerasoa, the president of the board of directors at Air Madagascar, on the privatization of the Malagasy  (...)  [454 words]   [$7]

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
UGANDA
The sale of Cargill cools the coffee in Uganda
 [198 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
Water, a crucial problem
 [291 words]   [$7]
ERITREA
Adulis drilling
 [104 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
Parabole Reunion arrives
   After having entered into competition with Canalsatellite in Madagacsar (ION 917), Thierry Lagesse’s satellite television company, Parabole Réunion, has new projects in the region  (...)  [166 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
A Swiss advertising bash
   Mauritian authorities have launched a publicity campaign in Switzerland in the hope of attracting new clients for their offshore financial center.  (...)  [335 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
The persuasive Mr. Al Amoudi
   The Saudi-Arabian magnate, Mohamed Hussein Al Amoudi, the first foreign investor in Ethiopia, has unaccustomed persuasiveness with the Ethiopian authorities.  (...)  [133 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
A ADB borrowing in Pretoria
   The African Development Bank (ADB) is to launch borrowing of a total of 10 million rands ($1 = 7.  (...)  [109 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
Works on the Limpopo railway
   The state controlled company, Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (CFM) is expected to launch an invitation to tender for works on the reconstruction and verification of the Limpopo railway,  (...)  [131 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE
A decisive week for Cabora Bassa
   The future of the Mozambican hydroelectric dam managed by the Portuguese firm Hidroeléctrica de Cabora Bassa (HCB) has been the subject of new round of discussions this week during  (...)  [671 words]   [$11,2]
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