THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER # 861 - 12/06/1999

SUDAN WARLIKE PREPARATIONS FROM SPLA Starting from rear bases in Eritrea and Uganda, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (opposition) headed by colonel John Garang is readying fresh military operations against the Sudanese regime. (...). [Total : 588 Words]. (8,2USD)

SUDAN SLOW THAW WITH THE US Despite a start to an improvement in its relations with Sudan, the US Administration is not yet ready to re-establish normal diplomatic relations with that country, particularly as there is a well-balanced and efficient anti-Khartoum lobby in the US Congress. (...). [Total : 369 Words]. (4,7USD) KENYA / UNITED STATES JUDICIAL BLOCKBUSTER The legal complaint filed by US lawyer Philip Musolino on May 23 before a US district court in the District of Columbia is unusual on more than one count. (...). [Total : 272 Words]. (4,7USD) AFRICA ZANZIBAR WANTS OWN MEMBERSHIP IN IOC Zanzibar's recent application for its own membership in the Indian Ocean Commission is expected to be on the agenda of the IOC council of ministers which will precede the regional cooperation organism's summit of heads of state and government, scheduled on the French possession of Reunion Island on November 25 and 26. (...). [Total : 281 Words]. (4,7USD)

TANZANIA HEALTH AND COMMERCIAL COMPETITION Two foreign firms are in competition to introduce in Tanzania a drug intended to replace chloroquine, used currently against malaria. (...). [Total : 317 Words]. (4,7USD) MAURITIUS STIFF COMPETITION IN TELEVISION Competition is going to be tough between two privately-owned satellite-television companies battling for the Mauritian market, MC Vision and Parabole Maurice (a subsidiary of Parabole Reunion, which began marketing its services on the French overseas possession Reunion Island at the beginning of the year). (...). [Total : 257 Words]. (4,7USD)

SOUTH AFRICA SOLAR CHIMNEY FOR POWER AFRICA Power Africa, a subsidiary of Bridge Africa based in Kenilworth, has been chosen to supervise implementation of an ambitious solar energy project in a desert area in Northern Cape Province, in the Republic of South Africa. (...). [Total : 171 Words]. (1,5USD) ETHIOPIA RURAL ELECTRICITY SURVEY FOR NRECA The United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has made a grant of US$133,500 to finance technical assistance for Ethiopia which will be implemented by James M. (...). [Total : 109 Words]. (1,5USD) MADAGASCAR EXPLORATORY VISIT FOR GLAXOWELLCOME The international medical laboratory which is quoted on the London stock exchange and has a subsidiary in the United States, GlaxoWellcome is interested in the Indian Ocean market starting with Mauritius and Madagascar. (...). [Total : 96 Words]. (1,5USD)

ETHIOPIA MILITARY EXPENDITURE HAS DOUBLED The joint delegation of the Ethiopian government and donors (International Monetary Fund, World Bank, African Development Bank) which proceeded in May to review public expenditure in Ethiopia for 1999 noted a doubling of expenditure on military defence compared with the low level of the mid-1990s. (...). [Total : 170 Words]. (4,7USD) KENYA COMPROMISE ON ENERGY After nearly two weeks of delicate reunions (ION 859), representatives of the World Bank and those of Kenya's energy sector reached a compromise on June 9 which should lead the Bank to lift its decision to suspend its credit lines for electricity generation and distribution projects in Kenya. (...). [Total : 368 Words]. (4,7USD) 1 ZIMBABWE HOW MURERWA REASSURED GONDWE When the African director of the International Monetary Fund, Goodall Gondwe, met the Zimbabwean minister of finance Herbert Murerwa in Harare on May 21, he demanded and obtained detailed explanations on the manner that Zimbabwe financed its military intervention in Democratic Republic of Congo in support of DRC head of state Laurent Kabila. (...). [Total : 333 Words]. (4,7USD) 199 SOUTHERN AFRICA EUROPEAN UNION AND FOOD CHAIN SECURITY The EDF committee grouping member-states of the European Union has just approved a subsidy of 4.15 million euro to finance the training programme on food chain security of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). (...). [Total : 199 Words]. (4,7USD) MADAGASCAR AXES OF REFORM IN THE MINING SECTOR The Malagasy authorities have distributed an advisory of market agreements (supplies, work, services) linked to the project to reform the mining sector financed by a credit line of US$5 million from International Development Association. (...). [Total : 291 Words]. (4,7USD)

TANZANIA BELGIAN POINTS FOR THE RAILWAY The Belgian government has approved a subsidy of BFr.295 million (about US$8 million) to finance the supply of railway points for Tanzania's railway network. (...). [Total : 112 Words]. (1,5USD) ZIMBABWE THREE WORLD BANK PROJECTS International Development Association (the World Bank concessional lending affiliate) has put up for study three financing projects for Zimbabwe. (...). [Total : 87 Words]. (1,5USD) AFRICA EPZ TALKS IN PARIS In collaboration with the MOCI, Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur (CFCE) is organizing a conference in Paris on July 6 on the profit that enterprises draw from Sub-Sahara African EPZs. (...). [Total : 222 Words]. (1,5USD)

KENYA INSECURITY WORRIES UN The indiscriminate use of firearms by criminals carrying out acts of banditry in Kenya is a problem which worries increasingly the officials responsible for the security of personnel of United Nations agencies working in that country. (...). [Total : 207 Words]. (4,7USD) MADAGASCAR STILL PROBLEMS AT SOLIMA Although improved relations seemed in view in the social battle at Solima (ION 860), the strike committee of the state-owned petroleum products company now being privatized decided, after consulting the workers, to resume the strike on June 10 in Antananarivo. (...). [Total : 354 Words]. (4,7USD) TANZANIA MINISTER'S LATEST CONTROVERSY Although state-owned National Shipping Agency Company (NASACO) is marked down for privatization, minister of commerce Iddi Simba's award of permits to fifteen foreign maritime agencies raised howls of protest from local competitors and trade unions. (...). [Total : 353 Words]. (4,7USD) COMOROS ISLANDS AZZALI INCREASINGLY ISOLATED Comoros Islands political leaders who had politely accepted or even applauded colonel Assumani Azzali's coup d'état are now beginning to measure their distance. (...). [Total : 343 Words]. (4,7USD) SOUTH AFRICA AN AMPUTATED ELECTORATE Between the 1994 general election and last week's, the normalization of South African democracy has deprived one-fifth of 1994 electors of the right to vote. (...). [Total : 237 Words]. (4,7USD)

MAURITIUS THE PM'S MAN Prime minister Navin Ramgoolam's press spokesman Lucien Finette has become omnipresent in the PM's entourage. (...). [Total : 118 Words]. (1,5USD) SOUTH AFRICA LOGAN WORT Outgoing finance minister Trevor Manuel's spokesman has been named to head that ministry's department for relations with the Southern African Development Community (SADC). (...). [Total : 70 Words]. (1,5USD) UNITED STATES / UGANDA MARTIN G. BRENNAN American president Bill Clinton is expected to nominate the present deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in Addis Ababa as the next American ambassador to Uganda. (...). [Total : 120 Words]. (1,5USD) ETHIOPIA / UNITED STATES ETHIOPIAN POLITICAL OPPONENT IN VOA AFRICA SERVICE An Ethiopian journalist critical of the present authorities in Addis Ababa and strongly decried by the later has just been named acting head of the Africa service of the US parastatal radio network Voice of America. (...). [Total : 277 Words]. (1,5USD)

BOTSWANA / SOUTH AFRICA LUCAS MANGOPE The former president of Bophuthatswana, the self-governing homeland which the Republic of South Africa's apartheid regime declared an independent state in 1977, has made a doubly unexpected comeback in South Africa's second democratic elections. (...). [Total : 229 Words]. (4,7USD) UNITED STATES / SOUTH AFRICA DELANO E. LEWIS US president Bill Clinton has nominated a new ambassador to the Republic of South Africa, Delano E. Lewis, the former director of National Public Radio from 1994 to 1998. (...). [Total : 185 Words]. (4,7USD) MOZAMBIQUE / NIGERIA MARIO MACHUNGO Mozambique's former prime minister Mario Da Graça Machungo has been elected chairman of Africa Leadership Forum in succession to retired army general Olusegun Abasanjo of Nigeria, who is that country's newly-elected head of state. (...). [Total : 176 Words]. (4,7USD) KENYA ELIJAH NGUGU MWENGI The new head of the World Bank's El Niño Emergency Project, which is in tended to repair and rehabilitate infrastructures damaged in the 1997-1998 storm season, Elijah Ngugu Mwengi is to work under the authority of Solomon Boit, the permanent secretary for development coordination in the office of Kenyan head of state Daniel arap Moi. (...). [Total : 181 Words]. (4,7USD) 6