| THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER # 530 - 06/06/1992 |
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KENYA ETHNIC SPLINTERS The ethnic question stands, shorn of decor and make-up, on the forefront of a Kenyan political stage which is increasingly chopped up according to community solidarity, both with the KANU party and with the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy (FORD), the principal opposition movement. (...). [Total : 725 Words]. (8,2USD) |
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HORN OF AFRICA BRITISH FOOD AID Britain's minister for overseas development, Lynda Chalker, announced on 1 June that Great Britain has granted further emergency food aid of 12,000 tons, worth some £3 million (about FFr. (...). [Total : 164 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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SOUTHERN AFRICA DROUGHT AID At the end of an international conference held in Geneva, Switzerland, this week, to discus aid for the ten southern African countries affected by drought, representatives of fifty governments and about fifteen international organisations including the World Bank, pledged 526 million dollars in emergency aid of the total 855 million dollars requested (685 million in emergency aid, 150 million for health assistance and 20 million for logistic aid). (...). [Total : 166 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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ERITREA PEACE AND FAMINE Some 50,000 Eritreans who left refugee camps in the Sudan to return to Eritrea, following the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) takeover of power in Asmara last year, now find themselves faced with famine. (...). [Total : 242 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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REUNION ISLAND EC AID FOR SME'S The European Community has approved a programme of ECU 3.5 million (about 4.4 million US dollars) financed by its Regional Development Fund to assist small and medium-sized enterprises on the island. (...). [Total : 261 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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MAURITIUS THREE-YEAR PLAN PROJECTS The Public Sector Investment Programme (PSIP) being worked out by Mauritius' ministry of planning and economic development is expected to be completed very shortly. (...). [Total : 411 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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MOZAMBIQUE MAPUTO BELIEVES IN MARIO SOARES Mozambique's head of state, president Joaquim Chissano, telephoned "a few weeks ago" to his Portuguese opposite number, Mario Soares, to warn him that he was prepared to meet with the leader of the opposition movement RENAMO, Afonso Dhlakama, according to the Portuguese weekly Expresso on 30 May, quoting a source close to the Portuguese presidency. (...). [Total : 225 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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SUDAN ABUJA SURPRISES The peace negotiations in Abuja (ION N° 529) which ended unsuccessfully this week have produced some astonishing turnabouts. Contrary to what it had previously announced, the Sudanese Peoples' Liberation Army (SPLA) forces of Colonel John Garang accepted the presence in the negociation of the SPLA "dissident" Lam Akol. (...). [Total : 319 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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ERITREA UN'S ROLE IN REFERENDUM IN JEOPARDY During a recent public debate in Asmara, the president of the provisional Eritrean government, Issayas Afewerki, said that for financial reasons, the United Nations was seeking to postpone the referendum on self-determination scheduled to take place at the end of April 1993. (...). [Total : 140 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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SUDAN HASSAN AL-TOURABI ATTACKED The leader of the National Islamic Front (NIF), who was on a private visit in Canada after a conference tour in Great Britain and the United States, was attacked in Ottawa airport on 25 May by a Sudanese political refugee, Hashim Badr-ed-Din, as he was waiting to embark for Toronto. (...). [Total : 268 Words]. (4,7USD)  58
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DJIBOUTI OPPOSITION CONFERENCE IN PARIS A meeting between representatives of different tendencies of the Djiboutian opposition was preparing to meet in Paris this week. On behalf of the Mouvement pour la Paix et la Réconciliation (MPR), the former health minister, Mohamed Djama Elabe called on May 30 for the constitution of a united opposition front in order to create a "pacific and democratic alternative" to the present regime. (...). [Total : 251 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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COMOROS ISLANDS/SOUTH AFRICA DIPLOMATIC TIES? On his recent return from a mission to South Africa, with a view to securing a promise for the reopening of the South African Consulate in Moroni, the Comoros Islands foreign minister, Said Hassan Said Hachim, announced that the two countries had agreed mutually to receive ambassadors in the near future. (...). [Total : 357 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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MADAGASCAR RATSIRAKA REVELATIONS Madagascar's head of state, President Didier Ratsiraka, told the daily Midi Madagasikara, in an exclusive interview published on 27 May, that "no incumbent head of state resigns prior to elections", adding that "legally, nobody can prevent (me) from being a candidate again". (...). [Total : 175 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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DJIBOUTI BOMB ATTACK SUSPECT CONDEMNS ACT One of the five people against whom an international arrest warrant has been issued by the French judge, Roger Le Loir (ION N°524), in connection with the bomb blast at the Café de Paris in Djibouti in September 1990, has sent a written response to the charges against him to The Indian Ocean Newsletter, from his current home in Canada. (...). [Total : 411 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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SOUTH AFRICA ANC TO STUDY US FEDERAL MODEL The African-American Institute (AAI) is organising a four-week trip to the United States on behalf of the US Information Agency (USIA), for a group of South African lawyers from the African National Congress (ANC). (...). [Total : 462 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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ETHIOPIA OLF OFFICIALLY CONDEMNED FOR BEDENO MASSACRE During its session on May 26, the Ethiopian Council of Representatives, the parliament, condemned the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) for its part in the massacre of over 150 people in Bedeno in the eastern part of the country in April (ION N°527). (...). [Total : 219 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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SUDAN NASR HASSAN BECHIR NASR This retired army colonel and former member of military intelligence prior to 1989 was condemned to death on 28 May for alleged "espionage for a foreign power". (...). [Total : 129 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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UNITED KINGDOM/MADAGASCAR CHRISTOPHER METCALF The new representative of the United Nations Development Programme in Madagascar is an Oxford graduate who has had African postings for sixteen years, successively in Sierra Leone, Somalia, Kenya, Swaziland, and for four years in Burkina Faso. (...). [Total : 73 Words]. (FREE!) |
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ZIMBABWE EDGAR SANSOLE The retired High Court judge, who today has a legal practice in the southern city of Bulawayo, is interim chairman of Forum for Democratic Reform, a pressure group set up in Harare on 30 May. (...). [Total : 191 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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SPAIN/SEYCHELLES JOSE MARIA THOMAS Spain's new ambassador to the Seychelles presented his credentials to the head of state, president France Albert Rene, last week. (...). [Total : 73 Words]. (FREE!) |
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ERITREA MOHAMED AFIFI BADIR Egypt has appointed Mohamed Afifi Badir a minister Plenipotentiary, to head its permanent diplomatic mission in Asmara. In an interview on Eritrean radio (Dimtsi Hafash), Badir praised the "pragmatic and realistic" policies of the provisional Eritrean government. (...). [Total : 85 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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COMOROS ISLANDS MOHAMED TAKI ABDOULKARIM Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, who is responsible for government activities on the Comoros and leader of the UNDC, called on 30 May from France (where he is currently living) for a "yes" vote in the constitutional referendum scheduled for 7 June because he is "convinced that the future of the country lies solely in national reconciliation". (...). [Total : 120 Words]. (1,5USD) |
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TANZANIA OMAR ALI JUMA Zanzibar's chief minister, has announced that the local authorities have decided to set up a commission to ascertain the opinion of inhabitants of the two islands, who oppose maintaining the union with mainland Tanzania. (...). [Total : 45 Words]. (FREE!) |
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ETHIOPIA GIRMA GHENNET Girma Ghennet, who represents the Coalition of Ethiopian Democratic Forces (COEDF), was a guest speaker at the Conference on Democracy and Transition in Africa held in Dakar last week. (...). [Total : 67 Words]. (1,5USD) |
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SEYCHELLES PIERRE SOUBIRON Pierre Soubiron, author of the explosive novel "La Poudrière des Seychelles" (The Seychelles Powderkeg) which has just been published in Paris (ION N°525), had a long meeting with the French MP François d'Aubert (UDF). (...). [Total : 83 Words]. (1,5USD) |