THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER # 918 - 23/09/2000

UGANDA Museveni's Power Politics Caught short in June by the rapprochement between presidents Daniel arap Moi and Paul Kagame who had been on bad terms for years (ION 907) and then worried by a military cooperation pact between Kenya and Rwanda, Uganda president Yoweri Museveni is struggling to get back in the saddle as a major player in regional politics. (...). [Total : 614 Words]. (8,2USD) 3

MAURITIUS/SUDAN Two Scramble for One Seat The U.S. government is pulling out all the stops in favor of Mauritius' candidacy as Africa's representative among the 10 non-permanent members of the U. (...). [Total : 277 Words]. (4,7USD) MOZAMBIQUE Rwanda National Opens Bank A new bank is to be opened in Mozambique by the chairman of Rwanda's Banque de Commerce, de Developpement et d'Industrie (BCDI). (...). [Total : 282 Words]. (4,7USD) MADAGASCAR First Results of Sacerdoti Mission A delegation from the International Monetary Fund that was led by the head of the IMF's Indian Ocean department, Emilio Sacerdoti, raised a number of points after examining Madagascar's accounts for first half 2000 during a two-week visit to Antananarivo between Sept. (...). [Total : 300 Words]. (4,7USD) 2

INDIAN OCEAN Grabbing presidents' monikers Several African presidents' names have become Internet domain names apparently at the instigation of public relation firms avid for contracts with the chiefs, of political opponents seeking a new way to neutralize the other party, and smart guys looking for a quick buck by selling the coveted domain name to its namesake. (...). [Total : 299 Words]. (4,7USD) 1 1 KENYA Kenya's Coffee Board Seeks Funds The Coffee Board of Kenya is thinking of trying to raise money abroad to pay off coffee producers because local banks are reluctant to lend it money in view of the uncertainty that surrounds its future as deregulation of the industry looms. (...). [Total : 269 Words]. (4,7USD)

MOZAMBIQUE Mozal's Bank in Maputo The Mozal aluminum smelter near Maputo which has just begun exporting 1,350 tons of aluminum worth $2 million, will be able to deposit its revenue in a bank in Mozambique. (...). [Total : 145 Words]. (1,5USD) THE COMOROS Praise for Comoros Vanilla Passing through Moroni last week, the vice president of the world's leading vanilla trader, Zink & Triest Co. (...). [Total : 157 Words]. (1,5USD) THE SEYCHELLES A Brochure for Seychelles A British specialist in long-haul and luxury tourist destinations, Sunset Faraway Holidays, has just issued a 31-page brochure on the Seychelles in the hope of boosting its sales by 3,000 packages per year. (...). [Total : 88 Words]. (1,5USD)

THE SEYCHELLES No-Interest Treasury Bonds The Seychelles finance ministry has announced that it has commenced issuing 610 million rupees (about US$120 million) worth of 20-year Treasury bonds which are pretty unusual. (...). [Total : 198 Words]. (4,7USD) MADAGASCAR New Dial-a-Porn System The Indian Ocean Newsletter has learned that a company named Automatic Communications Ltd., affiliate of a holding company based in Australia, leased a series of telephone numbers starting with 261-7 from Telecom Malagasy (Telma) some years back and is using them for pornographic or gambling audio text services. (...). [Total : 353 Words]. (4,7USD) 2 KENYA Shippers Up in Arms In a final attempt to persuade the authorities to crack down on widespread theft of freight in the port of Mombassa, shippers have sent off an angry letter to Brown Ondego, managing director of the Kenya Port Authority (KPA). (...). [Total : 280 Words]. (4,7USD) 5 TANZANIA Quiet Back-Door Arrangements With the National Agriculture and Food Corporation (NAFCO) all but dead some of its officials have improved their lot by buying vehicles earmarked for a project that never materialized on the cheap. (...). [Total : 236 Words]. (4,7USD) 3 SOUTH AFRICA On Track for Telcom Sell-Off Ten companies are in the running for the contract to coordinate the privatization of South Africa's Telkom that is due to be completed by 2002. (...). [Total : 422 Words]. (4,7USD) 4

MOZAMBIQUE Work Stalled on Beira Fishing Port Restoration work on the Maputo fishing port that involves construction of a new wharf and ice-making plant, the purchase of lifting gear and the reorganization of refrigerators has been underway for a year and should be completed by March, 2000. (...). [Total : 149 Words]. (1,5USD) SOUTH AFRICA Special training for Black bankers The Black financial company African Harvest Ltd of Mashudu Ramano, a businessman close to president Thabo Mbeki, has formed a joint venture with Deutsche Bank Securities headed by Ted Woods in South Africa to set up special training for Black South African candidates for international banking careers. (...). [Total : 180 Words]. (1,5USD)

MADAGASCAR Media Projects Several media projects are brewing in the runup to provincial elections at the end of the year and with presidential elections further down the road. (...). [Total : 211 Words]. (4,7USD) MAURITIUS Major Shuffle for Corporate Bosses The advent of the new MSM/MMM government in Port Louis this week is going hand in hand with an extensive re-shuffle among bosses of state-owned firms. (...). [Total : 407 Words]. (4,7USD) 2 UGANDA New Anti-Corruption Campaign The ethics and integrity minister, Miria Matembe, is determined to step up the fight against corruption by tabling a Leadership Code Bill in Parliament. (...). [Total : 321 Words]. (4,7USD) ETHIOPIA Opposition gives Zenawi a no-show As expected (ION 917), the meeting between prime minister Meles Zenawi and leaders of Ethiopia's political opposition, set up in the Ethiopian embassy in Washington on September 15, didn't come off. (...). [Total : 211 Words]. (4,7USD) THE COMOROS Azzali's Pet Hate Security forces in Comoros broke up a demonstration in muscular fashion that supporters of former member of parliament sheikh Ali Bacar Kassim staged in front of the law court in Moroni last week. (...). [Total : 341 Words]. (4,7USD)

ETHIOPIA TPLF has army well in hand Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF, hardcore of EPRDF ruling in Addis Ababa) officials can still hold the Ethiopian army well reined in. (...). [Total : 228 Words]. (1,5USD) 1 MAURITIUS Ambassadors Also to Change The new government in Port Louis won't content itself with changing the heads of the leading state-owned companies but intends to also get rid of ambassadors with no diplomatic experience who had been named by the previous government. (...). [Total : 75 Words]. (1,5USD) 2

KENYA Njeri Rionge Former sales and marketing manager for Inter-Connect Ltd., Kenya's fourth internet service provider (ISP), Mrs. Njeri Rionge is now the managing director of Wananchi Online, the latest entry in the booming internet service provider market in the country. (...). [Total : 202 Words]. (4,7USD) SOUTH AFRICA Wiseman Nkuhlu A 56-years old former lecturer in accounting will replace Moss Ngoasheng, reconverted into business, in the post of special adviser to president Thabo Mbeki on economic questions. (...). [Total : 323 Words]. (4,7USD) MOZAMBIQUE/PORTUGAL Luisa Diogo Mozambique's economic planning and finance minister, Luisa Diogo, has finally agreed to meet with Portuguese businessmen who are seeking compensation for the Sonarep oil refinery that was nationalized in the mid 1970s. (...). [Total : 113 Words]. (4,7USD) MAURITIUS Sushil Kushiram A financial expert who was elected to parliament on the MSM/MMM's winning electoral list, Sushil Kushiram was given the wide-ranging ministerial portfolio for financial services, corporate affairs and economic development. (...). [Total : 185 Words]. (4,7USD) 2

UGANDA MUHOOZI KAINERUGABA Now that he has graduated from the prestigious Sandhurst military college in the U. (...). [Total : 42 Words]. (FREE!) REUNION PIERRE VERGES While Paul Verges, head of Reunion's communist party, awaits trial in a police court in early 2001 after being indicted on charges of having under-stated his assets, his son is also in hot water with the judicial authorities. (...). [Total : 74 Words]. (1,5USD)