| THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER # 624 - 21/05/1994 |
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SOUTH AFRICA BUDGET CONTROVERSY The euphoria of the African National Congress' electoral victory will barely have vanished before the government of Nelson Mandela has to tackle its first major challenge next month, the adoption of its budget for 1994-1995. (...). [Total : 794 Words]. (8,2USD) |
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AFRICA PROJECTS OF THE WORLD BANK Several financing projects to assist countries along the Indian Ocean shoreline have recently been put out for examination by the International Development Association, a subsidiary of the World Bank. (...). [Total : 394 Words]. (4,7USD)  30
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ETHIOPIA REAL ESTATE PROBLEMS IN ADDIS ABABA The promulgation of the Ethiopian government's new real estate law in Addis Ababa on April 27 has seen house owners telling their tenants to leave, a move which involves not only Ethiopian tenants but in many cases foreign tenants such as employees of the United Nations, non-governmental organizations, and businessmen. (...). [Total : 156 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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ZIMBABWE MAJOR LONDON CONFERENCE Currently on an official visit to Britain at the invitation of Queen Elisabeth, Zimbabwe's head of state Robert Mugabe addressed the conference on investment opportunities organized in London by the Confederation of British Industries (British employers' federation) and Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), with financial support from Barclays Bank of Zimbabwe and BAT Zimbabwe. (...). [Total : 224 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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SOUTH AFRICA PRETORIA AND THE ADB During the annual general meeting of the African Development Bank in Nairobi last week, Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) managing director Andre La Grange delivered a letter from the government of the Republic of South Africa announcing its intention of "initiating formal negotiations with a view to becoming a member of ADB". (...). [Total : 220 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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ERITREA TEETHING TROUBLES FOR PRIMA OIL Prima Eritrea Oil Company looks like seeing its very first contract put in question. The Eritrean petroleum company set up in June 1993 won a US$400,000 contract to market blended lubricants in Eritrea, but competitors are unhappy, claiming that this represents a dangerous precedent in terms of quality control. (...). [Total : 310 Words]. (4,7USD) 60
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SEYCHELLES NEW SHIPPING COMPANY The Seychelles' government has announced the creation of a new shipping company, Seychelles Shipping Line, which will operate between the islands and the South African port of Durban, with possibly an extension to other ports if there is sufficient demand. (...). [Total : 297 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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MADAGASCAR SET TO FLOAT, THE FMG SINKS INSTEAD Acting on orders from the International Monetary Fund, Madagascar's government finally agreed on May 6 to let the national currency (Malagasy franc, FMG) float on international currency markets. (...). [Total : 465 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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MOZAMBIQUE FRENCH AID FOR MAPUTO The May 9 meeting of the board of directors of Fonds d'Aide et de Coopération (FAC), an official organism which is part of the French cooperation ministry, authorized FFr. (...). [Total : 192 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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MOZAMBIQUE RENAMO TRIES TO REVAMP TRUST FUND RENAMO leader Afonso Dhlakama is again insisting on the importance of his forthcoming US visit, now scheduled for the month of June. (...). [Total : 191 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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KENYA DEFECTORS FLEE KANU Some fifty-eight people were arrested by police during a ceremony organized in the principally Kalenjin tribal district of Elgeyo-Marakwet on May 15 when about one thousand local officials of the KANU (government) party walked across to join FORD-Kenya (opposition). (...). [Total : 369 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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MADAGASCAR PARIS REFERS ZAFY TO IMF At the dinner in honour of Madagascar's head of state Albert Zafy on May 18, France's cooperation minister Michel Roussin set the tone of the discussions that the French authorities were to hold with the Malagasy delegation throughout the week (ION N° 623). (...). [Total : 250 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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MAURITIUS NEW PARTY FOR MMM DISSIDENTS The group of former members of Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM) who defected from the party headed by Paul Berenger is expected to announce that it will be transforming itself into a new political party, at a public meeting called for June 26. (...). [Total : 331 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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SOUTH AFRICA THE PWV REGIONAL GOVERNMENT To general surprise, one of the South African Communist Party's most militant members, Jabu Moleketi, has been appointed economy and finance minister in the Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging (PWV) regional government, in the strategically important region of Greater Johannesburg which encloses 80 percent of the Republic's industrial potential. (...). [Total : 201 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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SEYCHELLES PARLIAMENT UNHAPPY WITH SBC The thirty-three members of the Seychelles' national assembly interrupted the parliamentary session on April 17 after the Speaker of the House, Francis McGregor, announced that Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation would not be transmitting parliamentary debates in their entirety. (...). [Total : 179 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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COMOROS ISLANDS GOVERNMENT JUDGES THE JUDGES The release on May 10 of Mutsamudu opposition MP Ahmed Fouad Mohamed Ahmed and his brother Allaoui by the appeals court (ION N° 623) has strongly annoyed the Comoros government. (...). [Total : 341 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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MOZAMBIQUE The former deputy minister for public security in Mozambique, M. (...). [Total : 57 Words]. (1,5USD) |
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SUDAN Lam Akol has not sat back and twiddled his thumbs after being evicted from Sudanese Peoples' Liberation Army-United by Riak Machar. (...). [Total : 107 Words]. (1,5USD) |
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UNITED STATES / TANZANIA BRADY ANDERSON US president Bill Clinton has nominated one of his former gubernatorial collaborators in Arkansas, Brady Anderson, as United States ambassador to Tanzania. (...). [Total : 132 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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MAURITIUS JEROME BOULLE An MP belonging to the group of defectors from the MMM party and which still has several ministers in government, Jerome Boulle has been appointed to chair the parliamentary Select Committee on Drugs set up on May 10 after a vote on a motion in the Port Louis parliament. (...). [Total : 141 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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SOUTH AFRICA ALEC ERWIN A former trade union leader and a member of the African National Congress who feels close to ideas of the South African Communist Party (SACP), South Africa's new deputy finance minister has been one of the architects in the evolution of ANC's economic theories. (...). [Total : 345 Words]. (4,7USD) |
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UNITED STATES / SEYCHELLES CARL B. STOKES According to reports in US media but not confirmed by the White House, the former mayor of Cleveland (Ohio) is understood to be the next US ambassador to The Seychelles and likely to take up his new duties there in the summer. (...). [Total : 62 Words]. (1,5USD) |
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FRANCE / MADAGASCAR JAMES RANAIVOSON Currently one of the managers in Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations's share trading department and a recognized expert on interest rates, James Ranaivoson is to become the next treasurer of African Development Bank. (...). [Total : 51 Words]. (1,5USD) |
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COMOROS ISLANDS ACHIRAF SAIDINA The former cabinet director of opposition party UNDC leader Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim recently crossed over to the government's RDR party and was appointed personal counsellor to the head of state Said Mohamed Djohar at the beginning of May. (...). [Total : 58 Words]. (1,5USD) |
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SUDAN ABD-EL WAHAB AL-EFFENDI The press and public relations attache at Sudan's embassy in London, who holds an extremely important post which he defended in a book (Turabi's Revolution, Grey Seal Books, London, 1991), is believed to want to live and work in the United States. (...). [Total : 113 Words]. (1,5USD) |
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MAURITIUS MICHAEL GLOVER The Mauritius youth and sports minister (and MSM president) implicated in a drugs affair by an Indian, Bhairam Rostom Jhangeer Banker (ION N° 621) has now been cleared of being involved. (...). [Total : 69 Words]. (1,5USD) |