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HORN OF AFRICA

Editor in Chief

FRESH ISLAMIC SITUATION

Somalia is fast becoming the new rear base for Islamic fundamentalist groups which previously worked out of Sudan or Yemen. (...) [569 words] [$8.2]

POLITICS


ETHIOPIA/SUDAN
ADDIS CALLS ON OAU
During a news conference in Addis Ababa on December 6, Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi again called on the Organization of African Unity, via its committee for conflict prevention and management, to settle the problem of Ethiopia's demand for the extradition from Sudan of three Egyptians suspected of having participated in the mishandled assassination attempt on Egyptian head of state Hosni Mubarak last Spring. (...) [195 words] [$4.7]


MAURITIUS
ANY MORE FOR THE SKYLARK?
No less than 506 hopefuls, including 190 independents, put in their applications to become parliamentary candidates this week as the island limbered up for the election of sixty MPs on December 20. (...) [229 words] [$4.7]


COMOROS ISLANDS
MOUZAOIR GOES LOBBYING
On the edges of the Francophone Summit in Cotonou, the Comoros islands foreign minister (and possible presidential candidate) Abdallah Mouzaoir stepped up his contacts with African heads of state in an attempt to dissuade them from helping the Comoros head of state Said Mohamed Djohar from returning home before the presidential election. (...) [290 words] [$4.7]


COMOROS ISLANDS
REFUSNIKS IN PARIS
Replying to an invitation from Said Hilali, former counsellor to Comoros Islands head of state Said Mohamed Djohar, several Comoros political leaders including some potential runners in the presidential election met in the Suffren Latour hotel in Paris on December 3. (...) [414 words] [$4.7]


MOZAMBIQUE
LISBON AND ITS OLD COLONS
In December 1994, the Portuguese government decided for electoral purposes to repay in Portuguese currency all monetary deposits made in the Portuguese consulates in Beira and Maputo in 1975 by Portuguese nationals who were fleeing Mozambique when it became independent. (...) [155 words] [$1.5]


DJIBOUTI
THE CHOLER OF ISMAIL GELLEH
In a handwritten letter obviously penned in haste on November 29, Ismail Omar Gelleh, the nephew (and chef de cabinet) of Djibouti head of state Hassan Gouled Aptidon, informed his uncle, as chairman of Rassemble-ment Populaire pour le Progrès, that he was resigning from the executive committee of the party where he is the deputy secretary general. (...) [257 words] [$4.7]


AFRICA/FRANCE
FRANCOPHONE PROBLEM IS POLITICAL
Following the "cultural exception" which became the leitmotif of the Fifth Francophone Summit held on Mauritius, the Sixth Summit came up with the "political exception" idea for the latest get-together held in Cotonou from December 2 to 4. (...) [510 words] [$4.7]


MOZAMBIQUE
CHISSANO DOES NOT CONVINCE EU
On two separate occasions in Maputo last month, representatives of the European Union met with head of state Joaquim Chiassano and with RENAMO (opposition) leader Afonso Dhlakama. (...) [323 words] [$4.7]


DJIBOUTI
CORRIGENDUM: JEAN JACQUES MOULINE
In a letter of December 5 delivered by fax to The Indian Ocean Newsletter, the head of France's development and cultural action in Djibouti Jean Jacques Mouline writes to amend a report in ION N° 695. (...) [151 words] [$1.5]


HORN OF AFRICA
FRESH ISLAMIC SITUATION
Somalia is fast becoming the new rear base for Islamic fundamentalist groups which previously worked out of Sudan or Yemen. (...) [569 words] [$8.2]


ERITREA
OPPONENTS ARRESTED
According to the latest newsletter of Eritrean Liberation Front-Revolutionary Council (opposition, in exile), Mahmoud Dinai, a veteran member of Eritrean Liberation Front who later joined Eritrean Liberation Front-United Organization, was arrested by the Eritrea authorities at the beginning of October, along with several other persons. (...) [114 words] [$1.5]


MAYOTTE ISLAND
NO NEW PENAL CODE
The French government tabled a Bill before the national assembly last month to authorize the use of government decrees in order to modify the new penal code, used in Mainland France since 1994, to the special needs of French overseas territories and to Mayotte Islands, before it is brought into use. (...) [338 words] [$4.7]

WHO'S WHO


MAURITIUS
FUTURE MINISTERS?
The fact that the LP-MMM opposition alliance is seen as winning the general election on December 20 means that the party's list of candidates probably contains the future Mauritian government. (...) [274 words] [$4.7]


MADAGASCAR/EUROPEAN UNION
GUY PETITPIERRE
Three hot potatoes await the new head of the European Union's delegation to Madagascar, Guy Petitpierre. The sensitive dossiers are the delicate question of acting as a counterweight to the Bretton Woods institutions, the problems of the Malagasy sugar industry and the EU sugar quota, and the resumption of meat exports to EU countries. (...) [188 words] [$4.7]


DJIBOUTI
HASSAN GOULED
Installed (in order of protocol) after the Francophone doyens Gabon's Omar Bongo and Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko, the chair of Djibouti's Hassan Gouled Aptidon remained forlornly empty when the Sixth Francophone Summit opened in Cotonou on December 2. (...) [206 words] [$4.7]

ECONOMICS


	MOZAMBIQUE
	SLOW BEIRA, TOPHEAVY EU
	In its latest report, the European Union general accounting office has fingered the enormous lateness on the project to dredge the port of Beira where financing was approved by the (...) [366 words] [$4.7]


	SOUTH AFRICA
	DANONE BREAKS IN
	French major agro-food group Danone plans to establish itself in the Republic of South Africa following the signature in January 1996 of an agreement with Clover, local leader in diary (...) [240 words] [$4.7]


	UGANDA
	UPTC DIFFICULTIES
	The depreciation of the Ugandan shilling against the US dollar (dropping from US$1 = 900 shillings a few months ago to 1,200 shillings today) had brought the Uganda Posts and Telecommunications (...) [452 words] [$4.7]


	SEYCHELLES
	THE 1996 BUDGET
	Finance minister James Michel this week presented a 1966 budget which he claimed to be balanced: (...) [121 words] [$1.5]


	UGANDA
	SECOND TRANCHE OF IMF CREDIT LINE
	The International Monetary Fund says that it has decided to release US$60 million for Uganda on December 16. (...) [66 words] [$1.5]


	MADAGASCAR
	N° 1 FOR MAURITIUS
	Some 62 percent of the 3,900 tons of merchandise, valued at 344 million rupees, which were re-exported through the free port on Mauritius in 1994-1995, mostly by sea, were destined (...) [61 words] [$1.5]


	SOUTH AFRICA
	SUMMING UP AL GORE VISIT
	US vice president Al Gore was in the Republic of South Africa on December 4 to meet his South African opposite number Thabo Mbeki during discussions of the US-South Africa Bi-National (...) [446 words] [$4.7]


	MADAGASCAR
	ARGUING OVER THE PENNIES
	In the absence of head of state Albert Zafy, away attending the Francophone Summit in Cotonou, Madagascar's council of ministers held on November 30 and intended to examine the 1996 (...) [287 words] [$4.7]


	DJIBOUTI/ETHIOPIA
	REVIVING PORT USE
	At the end of a three-day visit to Djibouti last week, Ethiopian transport and telecommunications minister Abdul Mejid Hussein said on December 3 that Ethiopia is to increase the proportion (...) [471 words] [$4.7]


	KENYA
	EU AID FOR FAMILY PLANNING
	The European Union is preparing to finance a vast family planning programme amounting to ECU 14.8 million (US$18.9 million) in coordination with Britain's Overseas Development Administration (...) [377 words] [$4.7]

AGENDA


	SEYCHELLES
	PERCY AHMANE
	The publisher of the magazine Independent, which has ceased publication, has reached an agreement with a member of the executive of the Seychelles' government party, lawyer France (...) [125 words] [$1.5]


	SOUTH AFRICA
	DESMOND TUTU
	The Anglican archbishop of Cape Town (and 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner) was last week appointed chairman of Truth Commission which is to investigate alleged human rights violations (...) [86 words] [$1.5]


	ERITREA/YEMEN
	AHMED NOOMANE
	Yemen's representative with the Arab League announced in Cairo this week that delegates from his country and Eritrea would meet in Asmara shortly to discuss their conflict over sovereignty (...) [45 words] [FREE]


	SUDAN
	SALIM MOHAMED SALIM
	The secretary general of the Organization of African Unity, speaking in private, recently said that his organization was ready to back the hypothesis of a referendum on self-determination (...) [48 words] [$1.5]


	UGANDA/SUDAN
	YOWERI MUSEVENI
	Head of state Yoweri Museveni this week threatened Khartoum with Ugandan raids into Southern Sudan's territory to attack bases of Ugandan rebels, if the Sudanese government did not (...) [58 words] [$1.5]


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