THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER # 1010 - 21/09/2002

SOUTH AFRICA Mbeki Wants Black Business to Unite Annoyed by the divisions that have been paralyzing the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Nafcoc), South Africa's president was to attend the organization's annual congress, aimed at reinforcing its unity, as a guest of honor in Sun City from September 20 to 22. (...). [Total : 639 Words]. (8,2USD) 15 4

COMOROS ISLANDS Tensions Keep Climbing The president of the island of Ngazidja (Grande Comore) upped the ante this week in the jurisdiction conflict opposing him to the president of the Comoro Union. (...). [Total : 299 Words]. (4,7USD) MADAGASCAR Donors Remain Skeptical In order to remind the new Malagasy authorities of the conditions set to unblock the promised international aid, the vice-president of the World Bank for Africa paid a visit to Antananarivo last week. (...). [Total : 319 Words]. (4,7USD) 15 MOZAMBIQUE Castigo Langa Under Pressure Portugal's influential lobby in the energy sector has been applying strong pressure lately on Mozambique's energy and mineral resource minister to make him resign his seat in the government and sidelined from current negotiations. (...). [Total : 248 Words]. (4,7USD) 15 ERITREA A Shameful Anniversary To commemorate the ominous anniversary of the dozens of arrests of ruling Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) dissidents and of independent journalists in September 2001, two dozen militants of the NGO Reporters Without Borders entered the offices of the Eritrean embassy in Paris on September 18, and occupied them for a few hours. (...). [Total : 272 Words]. (4,7USD) ETHIOPIA Insecurity Seen with U.S. Eyes Issued by the George W Bush administration on September 13, a text on traveling conditions for American citizens in Ethiopia draws up a long list of difficulties they can expect to meet there. (...). [Total : 302 Words]. (4,7USD) 15 2

UNITED KINGDOM/UGANDA Adam Woods Replacing Tom Phillips as Britain's new high commissioner to Kampala is a recent entry into the world of diplomacy. Adam Kenneth Compton Wood spent his entire career in the overseas development ministry and joined the foreign and commonwealth office (FCO) only in 2000. (...). [Total : 213 Words]. (4,7USD) 15 ETHIOPIA Guanguel Teshager The temporary general manager of the agency in charge of attributing licenses to fixed and mobile telephone operators and to internet providers has quit. (...). [Total : 210 Words]. (4,7USD) MADAGASCAR/FRANCE JP Razafy-Andriamihaingo As foreseen by your favorite weekly (ION 1007), Madagascar's new ambassador to France – also accredited to Great Britain, Spain, Monaco, and Israel – is Jean-Pierre Razafy-Andriamihaingo. (...). [Total : 269 Words]. (4,7USD) 2 1 FRANCE/DJIBOUTI Richard Wilmot-Roussel A rear admiral has taken command of the Indian Ocean/Djibouti maritime zone for the French navy. An officer of 52, Richard Wilmot-Roussel has served on the personal military staff of President Jacques Chirac where he replaced Vice-Admiral Edouard Scott de Martinville. (...). [Total : 57 Words]. (FREE!)