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previous Archive n° 644  - 10/29/1994 next   Francis Soler DJIBOUTI Editor in Chief ISMAIL OMAR GELLEH'S PEACE The objective of the government delegation which is negotiating a peace agreement with Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD), headed by Ali Mohamed Daoud aka Jean Marie and Ougoureh Kifleh Ahmed, is to forge a dominant new alliance by associating Afar rebels with the Rassemblement pour le Progrès (RPP, government party). (...)   [783 words]  [$8.2] POLITICS SUDAN RAPPROCHEMENT WITH ZAIRE    According to Sudan's ambassador to Zaire Mohamed Abdel Ghaffar, the Sudanese government and the humanitarian organization Dawa Islamiya, which is close to the National Islamic Front (NIF) headed by Hassan al Tourabi, have financed a Sudanese medical team to work in Rwandan refugee camps located in Zaire.  (...)  [317 words]  [$4.7] MOZAMBIQUE ELECTORAL LANDSCAPE SPLIT THREE WAYS    As The Indian Ocean Newsletter closed for press this week, voting stations were opening for business in Mozambique after an electoral campaign marked by a chilling stream of epithets and invective from candidates, much of it ethnically slanted.  (...)  [499 words]  [$4.7] MOZAMBIQUE    Heads of state from the so-called Front Line countries met in Harare (Zimbabwe) on October 25 under the chairmanship of Zimbabwe's head of state Robert Mugabe.  (...)  [189 words]  [$1.5] SOMALIA LAST-CHANCE CONFERENCE    A delegation of seven from the United Nations Security Council led by ambassador Colin Keating, New Zealand's permanent representative to the UN, arrived in Mogadiscio on October 26 and is due to submit a report to the Security Council next week.  (...)  [616 words]  [$4.7] AFRICA/FRANCE FRENCH MILITARY AID    France's military technical aid to a number of Indian Ocean countries will remain stable in 1995, says the report of the French national assembly's finance commission.  (...)  [252 words]  [$4.7] TANZANIA NYERERE'S BOOK    Former Tanzanian head of state Julius Nyerere has decided to put forward his own pennyworth in the choice of a candidate for next year's presidentials, a choice which is currently splitting Chama cha Mapidunzi (CCM, the government party).  (...)  [430 words]  [$4.7] TANZANIA LETHARGIC ELECTIONS    Local elections planned in Dar es Salaam for the end of October seem to have aroused as much interest as an outdated wall-calendar.  (...)  [395 words]  [$4.7] UGANDA    Two officers of field rank in the Ugandan army, lieutenant-colonel Jet Tumwebaze (officer commanding Mbeya Barracks near Kampala) and major Kage (officer i/c transport in the army service corps) were arrested recently, on charges of allegedly smuggling Tanzanian cigarettes into Uganda worth US$1 million.  (...)  [65 words]  [$1.5] DJIBOUTI ISMAIL OMAR GELLEH'S PEACE    The objective of the government delegation which is negotiating a peace agreement with Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD), headed by Ali Mohamed Daoud aka Jean Marie and Ougoureh Kifleh Ahmed, is to forge a dominant new alliance by associating Afar rebels with the Rassemblement pour le Progrès (RPP, government party).  (...)  [783 words]  [$8.2] WHO'S WHO COMOROS ISLANDS/FRANCE DIDIER FERRAND    The first secretary in the French embassy in Canada, Didier Ferrand, has been named ambassador to the Comoros Islands, where he is expected to arrive sometime in November, replacing Jean Luc Sibiude.  (...)  [152 words]  [$4.7] UNITED STATES/ZIMBABWE STROBE TALBOTT    US deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott spent two days in Zimbabwe last week before going on to Malawi, Ghana, and Ivory Coast, with US assistant secretary of state for African affairs George Moose, assistant secretary of state for international organizations Douglas Bennet, assistant administrator (Africa) for USAID John Hicks, and National Security Council Africa director Don Steinberg.  (...)  [258 words]  [$4.7] SOMALIA AIDEED'S "G12"    The twelve heads of Somali factions who signed the appeal of general Mohamed Farah Aideed (USC-SNA) for a conference of national reconciliation (see p.  (...)  [359 words]  [$4.7] ECONOMICS SEYCHELLES    The airline Air Seychelles is suffering from brain-drain. Two expatriate pilots, the South African Richard Grice and the Briton Ian Hunt quit just after completing a qualification  (...)  [101 words]  [$1.5] ERITREA/ETHIOPIA    The governments of Eritrea and Ethiopia have signed an agreement in Asmara which allows the free movement of goods between the two countries without payment of Customs dues.  (...)  [58 words]  [$1.5] MADAGASCAR/MAURITIUS TRIBULATIONS OF A ZAFY COUNSELLOR    The Mauritius-based Indian Ocean representative of the British company Powerfab, Albert Lindsay, has filed a legal complaint in the trading dispute growling on for months between him  (...)  [664 words]  [$4.7] MAURITIUS FRANCE INVESTS IN FREEPORT    The French group SCAC Delmas Vieljeux (SDV), the maritime division of Bolloré Technologies, has submitted to the Mauritius government a project to develop the Port Louis freeport.  (...)  [202 words]  [$4.7] ZIMBABWE    The leading US hotel chain Best Western International has slipped a toe onto the African continent by signing an alliance with Cresta Hotels, a subsidiary of the Zimbabwean company  (...)  [105 words]  [$1.5] ZIMBABWE BRITISH INVESTMENTS    Since the conference on investment opportunities in Zimbabwe organized in London last May (ION N° 624), the Zimbabwe Investment Centre headed by Nicholas Ncube has received eighty  (...)  [222 words]  [$4.7] REUNION ISLAND STATE OF THE LOCAL PUBLIC DEBT    The 1993 report of the French parastatal Institut d'Emission des Départements d'Outre-Mer (IEDOM) which has just been released in Paris draws a comparative picture of the extent of  (...)  [538 words]  [$4.7] MAURITIUS    The Central Water Authority of Mauritius and a private French group Lyonnaise des Eaux are to set up a mixed economy company called Mauricienne des Eaux Océan Indien to rehabilitate  (...)  [113 words]  [$1.5] ERITREA SAUDI TRADE MISSION    A trade mission of twenty-four members of the Demam, Djeddah and Riyadh chambers of commerce were in Eritrea from October 16 to 19 for a careful prospecting of the situation centred  (...)  [354 words]  [$4.7] SUDAN TWO LOANS FROM OPEC    The OPEC Fund has made the Sudanese government two loans worth more than US$20 million. The first loan ($15 million) will finance an import programme aimed at allowing Sudan to meet  (...)  [266 words]  [$4.7] ZIMBABWE HARARE SELLING GRAIN TO WFP    After two years of drought and bad harvests, Zimbabwe has pulled through to become a grain supplier for the United Nations' World Food Programme's emergency aid programmes in Afri  (...)  [352 words]  [$4.7] AGENDA DJIBOUTI/LIBYA HASSAN GOULED APTIDON    In an interview published by the Saudi daily Al Hayat on October 24, Djibouti's head of state is quoted as supporting the Libyan head of state Moamar Kadafi, who wants a special summit  (...)  [94 words]  [$1.5] ISRAEL/TANZANIA ALI HASSAN MWINYI    Following discussions with a senior Tel Aviv official who had brought a personal message from Israeli prime minister Itzak Rabin, Tanzania's head of state said on October 21 that his  (...)  [44 words]  [FREE] AFRICA EVANGELOS A. CALAMITSIS    The International Monetary Fund has named Evangelos A. Calamitsis, a Greek national aged 61 years, to replace Mamadou Touré as head of the IMF's Africa department, effective November  (...)  [93 words]  [$1.5] SOUTH AFRICA/FRANCE JOSE ROSSI    France's new minister of industry and foreign trade José Rossi met with South Africa's minister of mineral and energy affairs R.  (...)  [77 words]  [$1.5]   previous Archive n° 644  - 10/29/1994 next

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