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The Indian Ocean Newsletter /Archives


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MOZAMBIQUE

Editor in Chief

GET THINGS MOVING

The approaching World Bank consultative group on Mozambique has relaunched the debate on cleaning up Mozambique's state-owned companies. International fund donors are expected to use the Paris meeting (April 17 and 18) to jog the Maputo authorities over their failure to implement some promises and to give the privatization programme a kick too. (...) [581 words] [$8.2]

POLITICS


TANZANIA
MKAPA REVAMPS PARASTATALS
Head of state Benjamin Mkapa recently decided to dissolve the boards of nineteen state-owned enterprises and bodies with a view to nominating new directors. (...) [353 words] [$4.7]


COMOROS ISLANDS
RETURN OF THE WIBAUX MISSION
It was aboard a Falcon-50 jet named Laurent Bouillet that Fernand Wibaux, the personal diplomatic adviser to French head of state Jacques Chirac, arrived in Moroni last week accompanied by a Dr. (...) [377 words] [$4.7]


DJIBOUTI
GELLEH-GEDI: MOVES
Head of state Hassan Gouled Aptidon gave in to pressure from his nephew (and chef de cabinet) Ismail Omar Gelleh and prime minister Barkat Gourad Hamadou (ION N° 711) in deciding, on March 27, to fire two ministers, Moumin Bahdon Farah and Ahmed Boulaleh Barreh (aka Gabayo). (...) [390 words] [$4.7]


MOZAMBIQUE
DIFFICULT CONFRONTATION
Head of state Joaquim Chissano had a long and difficult meeting on March 27 with representatives of the country's nineteen political parties, with RENAMO, the main parliamentary opposition party, represented by Raul Domingos. (...) [60 words] [$1.5]


ETHIOPIA
CRISIS CONTINUES IN AFAR LANDS
Hanfareh Ali Mirah, the chairman of regional council Number Two (Afar) who is the son of sultan Ali Mirah and leader of one of the two factions of the Afar Liberation Front (crisis-stricken since last year's regional elections), might be relieved of his functions. (...) [208 words] [$4.7]


SUDAN
SPLA OFFENSIVE RESUMES
The announcement by colonel John Garang's Sudan People's Liberation Army on March 25 of the capture of two frontier towns (Pochalla in Upper Nile Province and Khor Yabus in the southern part of Blue Nile Province) until now held by Sudanese government forces, illustrates well the resumption of the rebel offensive observers have expected for several months. (...) [428 words] [$4.7]


SEYCHELLES
EUROPEAN PROTESTS
British anger is not cooling in the face of the Economic Development Act, the controversial new Seychelles law which guarantees immunity from criminal prosecution for major investors who bring in US$10 million. (...) [187 words] [$4.7]


UGANDA
EU TO KEEP BEADY EYE ON ELECTIONS
Diplomats of European Union member-countries stationed in Kampala are to carry out an inquiry to check that the government effectively respects the terms attached to EU finance (ECU 1. (...) [40 words] [FREE]


TANZANIA
EUROPEANS CLAM-MOUTH ON ZANZIBAR
Tanzania's Civic united Front (opposition) would like to persuade foreign diplomats in Dar es Salaam to take sides in the conflict between CUF and Chama cha Mapinduzi (government party) over Zanzibar. (...) [57 words] [$1.5]


ZIMBABWE
THE IRRITABLE MR. CLARKE
During his visit to Harare this week, chancellor of the exchequer Kenneth Clarke pledged a British government grant of £10 million in aid to Zimbabwe once it signs a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund. (...) [422 words] [$4.7]


UGANDA
ETHIOPIAN REFUGEE PLEA
Solomon Kabede Tafesse, a former Ethiopian army captain who fled his country at the time of former president Haile Mariam Mengistu but who also opposes the present regime (ION N° 701), has denied all involvement in the attempted murder in Addis Ababa of USAID official Stevens Tucker on January 26 1994. (...) [355 words] [$4.7]

WHO'S WHO


COMOROS ISLANDS
TAKI GOVERNMENT
Comoros head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim has followed the advice of those among his French friends who advised him to form a limited-size government. (...) [178 words] [$4.7]


SEYCHELLES
ALBERT PAYET
The Seychelles representative of the British telecommunications multinational Cable and Wireless, Albert Payet, was recently elected unopposed as chairman of Seychelles Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), replacing Michael Mason, head of a large Seychelles tour operator Mason's Travel. (...) [86 words] [$4.7]


DJIBOUTI/FRANCE
GUY SERIEYS
The present cultural attache at the French embassy in Dakar, Guy Serieys, has been named head of the cooperation and cultural affairs mission at the French embassy in Djibouti, taking over from Jean Jacques Mouline who moves to a similar post on Mauritius (ION N° 705). (...) [141 words] [$4.7]


FRANCE/SEYCHELLES
MARCEL SURBIGUET
French head of state Jacques Chirac on March 11 named Marcel Surbiguet as ambassador to The Seychelles, replacing Pierre Viaux. (...) [128 words] [$4.7]


COMOROS ISLANDS
T. BEN SAID MASSOUNDE
Incoming head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim chose March 26, the day after his own inauguration, to name a former Treasury official, Tadjiddine Ben Said Massounde, as prime minister. (...) [186 words] [$4.7]

ECONOMICS


	SEYCHELLES
	AMBITIOUS HOTEL PROJECTS
	After seeing more than 120,000 tourists pour onto the Seychelles in 1995 (10 percent more than the previous year), the Seychelles are now banking on attracting 140,000 tourists this (...) [284 words] [$4.7]


	KENYA
	DONORS SAY "WELL, MAYBE"
	The Kenyan government has put its full weight behind efforts to convince international fund donors attending the World Bank consultative group on Kenya, in Paris on March 21 and 22, (...) [391 words] [$4.7]


	SOUTH AFRICA/PORTUGAL
	FISHING FOR IT
	South African executive deputy president Thabo Mbeki is to make an official visit to Portugal in April to meet the newly elected authorities there. (...) [294 words] [$4.7]


	MAURITIUS
	REGIONAL TRADE TARGETS
	Private-sector operators on Mauritius are looking longingly across at Madagascar and Mozambique for investment or delocalization. The chances were weighed up by officials of the Joint (...) [391 words] [$4.7]


	TANZANIA
	FORGED BANKNOTES
	After a long investigation, police in Moshi, a town in the region of Kilimanjaro, have arrested a businessman on charges of possessing forged Tanzanian currency with a face value of (...) [271 words] [$4.7]


	MOZAMBIQUE
	GET THINGS MOVING
	The approaching World Bank consultative group on Mozambique has relaunched the debate on cleaning up Mozambique's state-owned companies. International fund donors are expected to (...) [581 words] [$8.2]


	UGANDA
	PETROLEUM MISCALCULATIONS
	Ugandan natural resources minister Henry Kajura announced on March 25 that the government in Kampala had decided to put an end to the petroleum exploration permit covering Lake Albert (...) [418 words] [$4.7]


	MADAGASCAR
	BACK TO BACKDOOR FINANCE
	Italian businessman Gian Battista Totaro, who lives at Via G. (...) [69 words] [$1.5]


	COMOROS ISLANDS
	MERCENARY MOOLAH
	The French mercenaries who formed the backbone of late president Ahmed Abdallah's presidential guard on the Comoros Islands in the mid-1980s and some of whom did not hesitate to follow (...) [283 words] [$4.7]


	TANZANIA
	PRESELECTION FOR SONGO SONGO
	The consortium Songas has launched a preselection operation for the construction of gas pipelines to link the Songo Songo gas field to Dar es Salaam. (...) [64 words] [$1.5]


	COMOROS ISLANDS
	EEDC CALL FOR BIDS
	On recommendations of the commission for privatization, the previous Comoros islands government had on March 3 ordered the firm Castalia to issue a Call for bids for the privatization (...) [141 words] [$1.5]


	DJIBOUTI
	BACK FROM WASHINGTON
	Djibouti's finance and economy minister Mohamed Ali Mohamed has returned home reassured after his recent visit to the International Monetary Fund in Washington. (...) [278 words] [$4.7]

AGENDA


	COMOROS ISLANDS
	MOKTAR BEN AHMED CHARIF
	Head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim has chosen a World Health Organization senior executive, Dr. (...) [79 words] [$1.5]


	AFRICA/PORTUGAL
	JAIME GAMA
	Portuguese foreign minister Jaime Gama outlined his idea of a Euro-African political summit to colleagues at a meeting of the European Union general affairs committee, in Brussels (...) [56 words] [$1.5]


	LIBYA/MADAGASCAR
	JEAN CLAUDE RAHERIMANJATO
	Madagascar's finance minister welcomed a Libyan government delegation in Antananarivo last week but vainly sought to have Madagascar's debt with Libya cancelled. (...) [49 words] [$1.5]


	MADAGASCAR
	ALAIN RAMAROSON
	The leader of Forces Vives Rasalama (president's majority) stormed out of the meeting he had with head of state Albert Zafy on March 26 because the president had still not decided (...) [87 words] [$1.5]


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