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previous Archive n° 975  - 12/08/2001 next   Francis Soler GERMANY/UNITED STATES/SOMALIA/YEMEN/OMAN Editor in Chief Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb Under Close Surveillance Before the month is out, the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb will be placed under high surveillance by the warships of the anti-terrorist coalition headed by the United States (...)   [655 words]  [$8.2] POLITICS & POWER COMOROS ISLANDS All the Brothers Were Prosecuted    For various reasons, several sons of the late President Ahmed Abdallah are currently finding themselves on the forefront of the Comoro Islands' political scene.  (...)  [264 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA His Low Profile Comes at a Price    While he was quick to criticize Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in the final weeks of his term (ION 966), former President Negaso Gidada has been surprisingly silent ever since he stood aside for Ethiopia's new president, Girma Wolde Giorgis, who was elected by parliament on October 8.  (...)  [343 words]  [$4.7] SOUTH AFRICA Police Stung by Scorpions    A prickled South Africa Police Service (SAPS) feels stung by a smaller sister unit named the Scorpions. South Africa's policemen are annoyed with the meddling, both inside South Africa and abroad, of the élite unit dependent on national director of public prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka, a former MP with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) who is married to energy minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.  (...)  [454 words]  [$4.7] KENYA Blasé SK to Inveigh He's No Longer Astray    Having vainly tried, through court action, to force the Kenyan government to revoke its decision to close his Citizen radio and TV stations, Samuel Kamau Macharia is now attempting to find an arrangement with President Daniel arap Moi.  (...)  [337 words]  [$4.7] UGANDA UPDF Troops Return to the DRC    Fearing that Rwanda and the Ugandan dissidents that country supports settle in the zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that its soldiers have forsaken, Uganda has been discretely sending reinforcements back.  (...)  [354 words]  [$4.7] SOMALIA The TNG's Shady Friends    ...  (...)  [188 words]  [$1.5] WHO'S WHO EAST AFRICA/WORLD BANK Maude Svensson    For the past month, a Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) envoy to the World Bank is in charge of supervising the macroeconomic policy of Uganda, Ethiopia, and Eritrea inside the Washington institution.  (...)  [94 words]  [$4.7] MADAGASCAR Maminiaina Rasolondraibe    The director general of Funreco, Madagascar's only pension fund (see page 3), has enjoyed two periods as student in France, as financier at Grenoble's IEP in 1982 and as engineer at Toulouse's Ecole Nationale Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace.  (...)  [218 words]  [$4.7] KENYA/EAC Moijo ole Keiuwa    A Kenyan judge was selected last week to be presiding judge of the East African Court of Justice, which is dependent on the East African Community (EAC), whose main institutions (including the parliament) have just been inaugurated in Arusha, Tanzania.  (...)  [244 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA/FRANCE Sahele Work Zewdie    A French-speaking diplomat who has led Ethiopia's embassy in Djibouti since 1994 is to take over the Ethiopian ambassadorship to France in January 2002, replacing the chargé d'affaires Hiruy Amanuel.  (...)  [207 words]  [$4.7] ECONOMICS & PROJECTS ETHIOPIA Contest for the National Lottery    As one of the three fund collectors for Ethiopia's public treasury – along with the customs department and the inland revenue authority – the national lottery administration is opposed  (...)  [364 words]  [$4.7] COMPANIES STANDARD BANK Twelfth Offshore Bank in Mauritius  [115 words]  [$1.5] FUNRECO Madagascar's Only Pension Fund Joins Telecom  [139 words]  [$1.5] TELECOM MALAGASY Bidders Demand New Deadline  [120 words]  [$1.5] MAURITIUS Offshore Off Limits for India    India's financial authorities suspect that Mauritius's financial offshore is used by Indian citizens residing outside their country to speculate on the New Delhi stock exchange.  (...)  [262 words]  [$4.7] KENYA Mwau Takes People in His Hands    The head of the Party of Independent Candidates of Kenya (PICK) has taken over an opposition daily. According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, John Harun Mwau  (...)  [300 words]  [$4.7] BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BANKING First Private Establishment in Eritrea  [143 words]  [$4.7] BREWERIES TBL's Fiscal Fight Fermenting in Tanzania  [285 words]  [$4.7] SHIPPING COMPANY Cap Austral Sets Sail for the Comoros  [189 words]  [$4.7] SOUTH AFRICA Mbeki Challenges AIDS Fighters    In order to defend his government's policy of minimizing the impact of the AIDS virus, President Thabo Mbeki has not refrained from writing personally to South Africa's main economic  (...)  [315 words]  [$4.7] SEYCHELLES A Fish, a Flag, a Haven: Illegal Profits    The Seychelles have become the new haven for companies suspected of illegally fishing the rare deep-sea toothfish and desirous of finding a new flag to sail under (ION 960).  (...)  [309 words]  [$4.7] TANZANIA Afrox Buys Country's Largest Gas Producer    The South African company which is specialized in the commercialization of industrial gas and medical products is to take a 60% participation in the capital of TOL Ltd (formerly Tanzania  (...)  [161 words]  [$1.5] ZIMBABWE Suspicious Transfers Via Mauritius Offshore    The financial authorities of India are not alone in worrying about the perverse effects of Mauritius's offshore financial sector on their economy (see page 4 opposite).  (...)  [137 words]  [$1.5]   previous Archive n° 975  - 12/08/2001 next

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