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Francis Soler
ERITREA Editor in Chief
Ambassadors go waltzing
Now that Eritrea has signed a peace agreement with Ethiopia, head of state Issayas Afeworki has begun to re-deploy diplomatic staff abroad in order to improve the image of his country, often perceived as the Number One baddie in the Eritrea-Ethiopia border dispute. (...)   [667 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS & POWER
SOMALIA
Private war in Balad
   The pro-government militia recruited by two businessmen from Mogadiscio launched an unfruitful military operation December 18 at Balad (35 km to the north of Mogadiscio) against partisans of Muse Sudi Yalahowto.  (...)  [230 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
Number of police doubled
   After the controversial report written last year by a British advisor of the Uganda Police Force (UPF), David Tingle (ION 879), a new British police officer, Bob Hunt, has drawn up a three year plan for reorganizing the Uganda police.  (...)  [362 words]   [$7]
KENYA
Pal Ghai wants to seduce the Ufungamano
   The efforts of professor Yash Pal Ghai to merge the Kenya Constitution Review Commission (KCRC) of the parliament which he presides with its extra-parliamentary rival the People’s Commission of Kenya (PCK) better known under the name Ufungamano are attacked from all sides.  (...)  [345 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
The OUA rather optimistic
   The delegation of three South African representatives, one from Maurice plus a delegate from the General Secretariat of the OAU, lead by the Mozambican minister Francisco Maderi, finished its mission to the Comoros December 16 on a relatively optimistic note according to Maderi.  (...)  [369 words]   [$7]
COMOROS ISLANDS
Zeina goes round the right in Paris
   Still a virtual candidate for the presidency of the Comoros (ION 911) despite the absence of planned elections in the archipelago, Mohamed Zeina, a retired French civil servant, this week did the rounds of his right wing political friends.  (...)  [250 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
A band of chargés d’affaires
   The Ethiopian authorities have sent a band of diplomats having the rank of Chargés d’affaires to carry out the job of ambassador in several countries where the holders of the posts had been recalled to Addis Ababa.  (...)  [195 words]   [$2,1]
SEYCHELLES
Dissidence in the Islamic community
   The Moslem community in the Seychelles has just seen its first major division.  (...)  [220 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
ETHIOPIA/UNITED KINGDOM
Fisseha Adugna
   It is not a new ambassador, but a chargé d’affaires who has just been appointed to London by the Ethiopian government.  (...)  [220 words]   [$7]
ERITREA/UNITED STATES
Girma Asmeron Tesfey
   Eritrea’s ex-ambassador to Ethiopia and to the Organization of African Unity (OAU) who was declared persona non grata by the Ethiopian authorities in February 1999, he is shortly to take up his post as ambassador to the United States a country where he studied.  (...)  [269 words]   [$7]
ERITREA/FRANCE
Hanna Simon
   One of the first hour militants of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) she joined in September 1977, just after the end of her studies at the Franco-Ethiopian high school at Addis Abeba, Eritrea’s ex-ambassador to Belgium has just been appointed to the Paris embassy.  (...)  [239 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
Kliest Abdulwahid Sykes
   The candidate of the Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM governmental) running for mayor of Dar es Salam had no problem getting elected December 19, with an overwhelming majority of the city councilors being members of this party, only seven members of the opposition voted for his opponent.  (...)  [229 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS & PROJECTS
DJIBOUTI
A new tax on services
   In the framework of the finance law for 2001 the Djibouti ministers council decided December 19 to institute a new tax.  (...)  [258 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
ZIMBABWE
Rio Tinto confident in its Zimbabwe diamond mine
 [93 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
Creative Electrical - Looking for telephones
 [125 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
GIBE PL - Al Amoudi’s Boulimia
 [179 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR
Electors save manager
   The manager of the Domaines (state administered property), Jonah Julson, on post since the return of president Didier Ratsiraka to power in 1997, was just about to be ousted from his  (...)  [343 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
Songas still Late
   The Songas project (exploitation of offshore gas company of Songo Songo in the north of Tanzania and construction of a pipeline 232 km long to Dar es-Salaam) is held up once again  (...)  [336 words]   [$7]

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
MAURITIUS
Weal wants to buy two hotels in Mauritius
 [246 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
Lafarge moves into Sudan
 [226 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
Urgent to re-capitalize in Mozambique
 [124 words]   [$7]
SOUTHERN AFRICA
An air traffic control study
   Thanks to a $327.000 grant from the US Trade and Development Agency (TDA), the American firm Innovative Solutions International (ISI) made a study on modernizing air traffic control  (...)  [281 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
A former HCB president doesn’t agree
   The former president of Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB, a majority held Portuguese company managing the Mozambican dam of the same name) Colonel Costa Braz did not appreciate  (...)  [331 words]   [$7]
ERITREA/ETHIOPIA
The war of compensations
   The Ethiopian government has set up a national committee to gather requests for compensation for losses undergone due to the war with Eritrea.  (...)  [97 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
The MIGA to the rescue
   To encourage foreign investment in Ethiopia the government recently requested help from the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA, a subsidiary of the World Bank).  (...)  [130 words]   [$2,1]
SEYCHELLES
Budget surprises
   The vice-president and minister of Finance James Michel, did not speak about the lack of currency, the value of the rupee or the rise in the cost of living during his budget presentation  (...)  [203 words]   [$2,1]
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