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Francis Soler
KENYA Editor in Chief
Cat and mouse games
Head of state Daniel arap Moi and National Development Party (NDP, second-ranking opposition party, with a Luo majority) Raila Odinga are playing a little game of cat and mouse around the idea of cooperation between the two parties. They are expected to hold a joint public meeting in Kisumu, Odinga's home town, on January 6 in a bid to convince the Luo community of the need for an alliance between the governmental Kenya African National Union (KANU) and NDP, although in fact they're not putting up the same content. (...)   [717 words]   [$11,2]
POLITICS & POWER
MADAGASCAR
Ratsiraka chooses the hard way
   Annoyed by the media fallout due to the recent arrest and sentencing (for offending the head of state and an unpaid check) of the vice-president of the National Assembly, Jean-Eugene Voninahitsy, president Ratsiraka in Antananarivo December 28 accused the international media "of lack of objectivity" towards his country.  (...)  [196 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
Renewal of tension at the university
   Student agitation has seeped to the surface again in a number of Ethiopia's schools and universities over the past several weeks.  (...)  [502 words]   [$7]
SOMALIA
Question of Kisimayo raises its head
   The interim Somalian government's defence minister, Abdullahi Musse (a.k.a. King Kong) (Mejertein), has jumped to the support of Harti (mostly Mejertein, Dulbahante and Warsangeli) elders who opposed the interim head of state Abdi Qassem Salad Hassan over the situation in Kisimayo.  (...)  [330 words]   [$7]
MAURITIUS
Stauffer and Duval could get on
   Thanks to the mediation of common friends, the Swiss businessman Eric Stauffer and the ex-Mauritien former minister of finance Xavier-Luc Duval who reciprocally sued each other (the first in Geneva the second in Mauritius) could shortly meet (ION 923).  (...)  [412 words]   [$7]
KENYA
Daniel arap Moi raises the temperature
   President Daniel arap Moi raised the temperature with his country’s donors and the diplomats in post in Nairobi. After his decision to suspend the sale of part of the capital of Telekom Kenya to foreign submitters he asked his minister of foreign affairs, Bonaya Godana in his New Year speech, to make sure that foreign diplomats are accompanied with civil servants from his ministry each time they leave Nairobi.  (...)  [253 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
Promotion of officers from Tigray
   The recent promotion granted to 20 Ethiopian officers illustrates the decisions taken by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF hard core of the EPRDF in power in Addis Ababa) to give priority to officers coming from the regional state of Tigray regional state (ION 924).  (...)  [98 words]   [$2,1]
TANZANIA
Julius Nyerere is going to turn in his grave
   More than a year after the death of the ex-president Julius Nyerere his widow has still not managed to destroy a house that was built illegally on land that belongs to her by a person who obtained a fake deed attributing the land from the city council of Dar es-Salaam.  (...)  [165 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA
Cat and mouse games
   Head of state Daniel arap Moi and National Development Party (NDP, second-ranking opposition party, with a Luo majority) Raila Odinga are playing a little game of cat and mouse around the idea of cooperation between the two parties. They are expected to hold a joint public meeting in Kisumu, Odinga's home town, on January 6 in a bid to convince the Luo community of the need for an alliance between the governmental Kenya African National Union (KANU) and NDP, although in fact they're not putting up the same content.  (...)  [717 words]   [$11,2]

WHO'S WHO
MADAGASCAR
Richard Randriamandranto
   The Madagascan minister of foreign affairs Lila Ratsifandrihamanana has separated from her Director de cabinet Toky Andriamanjato who has left to join his wife who has settled in Reunion and has replaced him by Richard James Randriamandranto (ION 927).  (...)  [199 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
Tomé Makhweliha
   A new archbishop has been appointed in the province of Nampula (in the north of the country) to replace Manuel Vieira Pinto one of only two white bishops in Mozambique who has reached retirement age (75).  (...)  [230 words]   [$7]
KENYA
James Orengo
   Since president Daniel arap-Moi asked the police to ban its meetings in November 2000 the Muungano Wa Mageuzi (alliance for change) of member of parliament for Ford-Kenya (opposition) James Aggrey Orengo is considered the spearhead of the radical opposition in Kenya.  (...)  [260 words]   [$7]
ETHIOPIA
Berhane Mewa
   The possible future president of the Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce (AACC) was born in 1950 at Debre Markos, 200 kilometers north west of the Ethiopian capital (see page 4).  (...)  [241 words]   [$7]
ECONOMICS & PROJECTS
COMOROS ISLANDS
Two amendments to $1.2 million
   The new Comoros minister of Transports and Post and telecommunications, Mohamed Ali Athoumane, and the boss of the private company Comoretel, Chuck Smith respectively signed December  (...)  [295 words]   [$7]

COMPANIES
SUDAN
Haggar Holding - A letter from Khartoum
 [162 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA/UNITED STATES
Koeppen, Elliot & Associates - A guided tour of air security
 [81 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS
Mauritius Telecom - From Port Louis to Bujumbura
 [170 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA
A new boss for the AACC
   The boss of the company Processing of Poly Industrial Chemicals (PPIC) and president of the Ethiopian Private Industrialists Association (EPIA) Berhane Mewa, who had problems with  (...)  [279 words]   [$7]
DJIBOUTI
Americans active in geothermal power
   The American company Geothermal Development Associates (GDA) presided by Martin Booth III (ION 869) and based in Nevada which holds an exclusive license in the area of lake Assal to  (...)  [390 words]   [$7]

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
UGANDA
Contract for rural electrification
 [215 words]   [$7]
KENYA
End of Del Monte pineapple boycott
 [229 words]   [$7]
ZIMBABWE
Farmers short of coal
 [159 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
Woes of a French company
   Ugandan permanent secretary in the health ministry Okwale and eight other of its civil servants could face administrative disciplinary action if the government in Kampala accepts recent  (...)  [303 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
IMF wants a devaluation
   The document published on December 26 on talks held previously by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) management committee on the Seychelles' economic and financial situation has  (...)  [307 words]   [$7]
SOMALIA
The EU finances the rehabilitation
   The European Union (UE) has just approved a third rehabilitation program in Somalia (24.  (...)  [225 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA
Skilled workers for export
   The Ugandan minister in charge of general duties Gilbert Bukenya met the British High Commissioner Tom Phillips in Kampala to discuss mainly the possibility of Ugandans holding a  (...)  [203 words]   [$2,1]
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