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Cameroon
SONEL SEMI-PUBLIC?

Experts from the World Bank who recently toured Cameroon believe the best option for Cameroon's Société Nationale d'Electricité (SONEL) would [...]

Published on 23/07/1992 at 10:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Zambia
SMALLER PACKAGE FOR ANGLO

Anglo American is finally back in the saddle again in the saga concerning the main assets of ZCCM that remain [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.11.1999

Spotlight | Kenya
BARELY A THREE-MONTH HONEYMOON

Richard Leakey, the man Kenyan head of state Daniel arap Moi chose in July to lead Kenya's civil service, can maybe reckon on three months to prove he and his team are up to the job of cleaning out the [.

Subscribers only Politics 04.09.1999

Uganda
AES AHEAD IN FINAL STRETCH

Barring unforeseen hitches, the first power project carried out by an independent power producer (IPP) in Uganda will be the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

Kenya
PRIORITY FOR RURAL HEALTH

Kenya is using financial assistance from its international fund donors to reorient health sector priorities to rural zones. For while [...]

Subscribers only 27.06.1998

Madagascar
ARMAND RALAIDOVY

The cancellation last week of the decree appointing Armand Ralaidovy to be coordinator of the World Bank health project known [...]

Subscribers only 27.09.1997

Ethiopia
THREE WORLD BANK PROJECTS

The International Development Association, an affiliate of the World Bank, has begun work on three projects for loans to Ethiopia, [...]

Subscribers only 20.07.1996

Mozambique
NEW POWER-PLANT PROJECT

The British government is to make a grant of US$1 million to finance a comparative study on a project to [...]

Subscribers only 16.03.1996

Nigeria
LNG PROJECT UP AND RUNNING

Work is shortly to begin on the liquefaction plant that Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd. (NLNG) is to build at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.1996

Madagascar
PAYING FOR FUN AND GAMES

Madagascar, with the agreement of the World Bank, has submitted a fresh financing plan to the Comité international des jeux [...]

Subscribers only 25.11.1995

Kenya
LOANS FOR LIGHTS

Delegates of Kenya Power and Light Corporation and the Kenyan government are due to submit their joint reform programme and [...]

Subscribers only 09.09.1995

Kenya
POLITICAL DIALOGUE UNDER WAY

A first meeting of KANU (government party) representatives and delegates from opposition movements was held discreetly in Kenya last week [...]

Subscribers only 02.09.1995

Ghana
KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

Kwesi Botchwey may owe his downfall to a drillship. The dismissal of Botchwey, a top-rate finance minister who played a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.08.1995

Spotlight | Madagascar
ZAFY AND RAVONY AT ODDS

Marked on June 10 by the largest opposition demonstration seen in Antananarivo since last year, the campaign for the impeachment of the head of state Albert Zafy, which opposition MPs are now threatening to continue inside parliament, has rekindled the [.

Subscribers only 17.06.1995

Italy, Sudan
NEO-FASCIST LINES UP WITH NIF

A young (37) neo-fascist MP belonging to the Alleanza Nazionale party, Giovanni Alemanno, who is new to parliament, was the [...]

Subscribers only 27.05.1995

Mauritius
BIG FAT CONTRACTS AHEAD

Mauritius' ministers of finance (Rama Sithanen) and energy (Swaley Kassenaly) are expected to be in Paris next week for a [...]

Subscribers only 29.04.1995

Spotlight | Mozambique
A STATE OF GRACE - FOR THE MOMENT

Mozambique's delegation at the World Bank's consultative group meeting, held in Paris on March 14 and 15, received the optimistic welcome traditionally reserved for most brand-new governments, at least for their first few months in office.

Subscribers only 18.03.1995

Mauritius
BIDDING FOR BAGASSE STATION

Prequalification for the construction of a power station running on sugar cane waste and coal has been initiated by Centrale [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.03.1995

Spotlight | Madagascar
RAVONY BACK TO THE WALL

After having long shuffled its feet over the urgent economic reforms demanded by the international fund donors but without having come up with an alternative plan worthy of the name, Madagascar's government now has its collective back to the wall.

Subscribers only 25.02.1995

Eritrea
INTERNATIONAL AID DETAILED

International fund donors for Eritrea who attended the World Bank's consultative group meeting in Paris in December (ION N° 652) [...]

Subscribers only 04.02.1995

Mozambique
AIR FRANCE AND LAM CAN'T AGREE

Air France's decision to scrap its weekly Paris-Maputo flight via Johannesburg at the end of December, following a serious disagreement [...]

Subscribers only 21.01.1995

Mozambique
CHISSANO'S NEW CABINET

Head of state Joaquim Chissano named former foreign minister Pascoal Mocumbi as the country's new prime minister on December 16 [...]

Subscribers only 24.12.1994

Spotlight | Tanzania
IMF SHOWS A TOUGH GRIP

Fund donors for Tanzania attending an informal meeting in Paris on December 14 decided to leave it to the International Monetary Fund to decide on releasing international aid to that country. IMF is to despatch a mission to Dar es [.

Subscribers only 17.12.1994

Tanzania
MWINYI TACKLES CORRUPTION HEAD-ON

At virtually the last second, head of state Ali Hassan Mwinyi has requested postponement (until next year) of the World [...]

Subscribers only 19.11.1994

Spotlight | South Africa
ENERGY WEEK

"The government has signed with ENH," declared Mario Marques, managing director of Mozambique's Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos. However, it was not with ENH but with Enron that Mozambique had signed a memorandum of understanding to develop the Pande gas deposit, [.

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.1994

Spotlight | Madagascar
RECIPROCAL MISTRUST

By taking his place at the head of the Malagasy delegation which renewed the dialogue with the Bretton Woods institutions in Washington at the beginning of April, the prime minister Francisque Ravony has tied his future to the results of [.

Subscribers only 28.05.1994

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 [...]

Subscribers only 21.05.1994

Morocco
PRIVATE SECTOR ROUND STARTS

Bidding in the pre-qualification round for the construction of Morocco's first power stations to be built with private capital was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.1994

Mauritius
ASHOK JUGNAUTH

The young brother of Mauritius' prime minister Anerood Jugnauth was sworn in as employment and public works minister on March [...]

Subscribers only 09.04.1994

Gabon
OIL MINISTER WITH A WORLD BANK PROFILE

Paul Toungui has been given the mines-enery and hydraulic resources [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.1994

Spotlight | East Africa
THE SOUTH AFRICAN AND CHINESE OUTSIDERS

Times are going to be very hard. With the arrival in East Africa of South African outsiders, of Chinese firms with price dumping in public works sectors, of Japanese companies' renewed aggressiveness in several sectors (telecommunications, electricity distribution, road construction), [.

Subscribers only 26.03.1994

Spotlight | Ethiopia
OBSTACLES FOR INVESTMENTS MUST GO

Private investment projects and international credit for Ethiopia are not what is lacking. But bringing them to life is quite another matter and runs into numerous obstacles. At the end of 1993, the Investment Office of Ethiopia had listed six [.

Subscribers only 12.03.1994

Uganda
FINANCE HANGING FIRE

Although negotiations between the Ugandan government and the International Development Association have been completed, disbursement of an IDA loan of [...]

Subscribers only 12.03.1994

Djibouti
PORT REFORM

The managing committee of France's Fonds d'Aide et de Coopération (aid and cooperation fund) agreed on February 10 to make [...]

Subscribers only 19.02.1994

Spotlight | Zimbabwe
POWER III UNDERWAY

The World Bank was expected on Jan. 18 to give a green light to a $90 million loan to the Zimbabwe Electric Supply Authority for its Power III project. The programme will get underway in step with the institutional Zesa [.

Subscribers only Energy 19.01.1994

South Africa
CONFERENCE ON LOW-COST HOUSING

ACTIM (Agence pour la Coopération Technique Industrielle et Economique, the French technical cooperation agency) is to organize a conference on [...]

Subscribers only 15.01.1994

Tanzania
REVAMP FOR HOSPITALS

The initial calls for bids for rehabilitation work on Muhimbili university hospital centre in Dar-Es-Salaam are expected to be issued [...]

Subscribers only 15.01.1994

Ghana
TWO STAGES FOR ABOADSE

The combustion turbine and combined cycle power station that the Volta River Authority (VRA) will run at Aboadse near Takoradi [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.12.1993

Comoros islands
CONCESSIONS FOR THE OPPOSITION

The general elections which were due to be held in the Comoros Islands following the dissolution of the federal assembly [...]

Subscribers only 20.11.1993

Spotlight | Southern Africa
ESKOM APPEALS TO EC

For nearly 10 years Eskom chief Ian McRay has been championing the idea of an interconnection between Southern Africa's electricity grids and he seized the occasion of a conference staged on Oct. 14-15 by the Brussels Club on the theme [.

Subscribers only Energy 20.10.1993

Cameroon
YAOUNDE IN NEW PUSH

The managing director of Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH), Adolphe Moudiki, announced a few days ago that the state-owned company [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.10.1993

Spotlight | Kenya
BRUSHWOOD FIRES WITH DONORS

Although a Consultative Group meeting of the World Bank in Paris is expected on Kenya in the month of November, conditions still seem far from ready for normalising relations between the government in Nairobi and its fund donors.

Subscribers only 11.09.1993

Kenya
BANK CLEAN-UP

The manager of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), Eric Cheruiyot Kotut (a Kalenjin) gave his resignation to president Daniel [...]

Subscribers only 31.07.1993

Zimbabwe
TIMOTHY STAMPS

Zimbabwe's health minister Timothy Stamps caused ripples in Harare this week at the World Bank presentation of its annual development [...]

Subscribers only 17.07.1993

Spotlight | Madagascar
OPEN BALLOT

The legislative election campaign in Madagascar opened this week just two weeks ahead of the vote due on June 16, the result of which appears to be impossible to predict, mainly because of the large number of candidates (some of [.

Subscribers only 05.06.1993

Zimbabwe
WORLD BANK PROJECTS

Negotiations for a 60 million-dollar credit from the World Bank-affiliate, International Development Association (IDA) for Zimbabwe are due to begin [...]

Subscribers only 15.05.1993

Ethiopia
CALUB ENERGY PROJECT COST RISES

The bill for the Calub energy project in Ethiopia's Ogaden region has again been re-estimated at a higher cost (ION [...]

Subscribers only 24.04.1993

Eritrea
ABANDONED INDUSTRY

The most important external financing requirement for Eritrea's Recovery and Rehabilitation Project (ERRP) (ION N°570) out of a total gap [...]

Subscribers only 24.04.1993

Mali
BHP IN LOULO PROJECT

As development on Mali's biggest gold deposit at Syama presses ahead, BHP Utah intends to join the Loulo project. An [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.04.1993

Tanzania
EXPENSIVE SOLUTION TO BADLY MANAGED IMPORT SUPPORT FUND

Over 190 local firms (public and private) could be forced to repay, between now and July, 176.6 billion shillings (542 [...]

Subscribers only 27.03.1993

South Africa
ECONOMIC STUDIES OUT SOON

The World Bank continues to pass the economic and social future of South Africa with a fine toothed comb. A [...]

Subscribers only 27.02.1993

Spotlight | Madagascar
ECONOMIC DEADLINE

The transition towards a third republic in Madagascar, has kicked off with the electoral victory of Albert Zafy in the presidential may well turn out to be none too smooth from an economic point of view, given that the country's [.

Subscribers only 20.02.1993

Kenya
POST-ELECTORAL GOVERNMENT SHAKE-UP

Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi presented a new government on January 13, the main feature of which is the appointment [...]

Subscribers only 16.01.1993

Spotlight | Mozambique
THE COSTLY BUSINESS OF PEACE

The Mozambican government has estimated its external financing requirement for 1993 at almost 1.2 billion dollars, including 419 million dollars of rescheduled debt. But to this figure has to be added the cost of three programmes that spin off the [.

Subscribers only 12.12.1992

Spotlight | Uganda
RELATIONS WITH FRANCE FIRM UP

The Ugandan government would like to become the first English-speaking African country to obtain credits from the French ministry of Cooperation, whose current policy is to lend to French-speaking and Portuguese-speaking countries only. Such an innovative move would constitute a [.

Subscribers only 07.11.1992

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Spotlight | Kenya BARELY A THREE-MONTH HONEYMOON

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Kenya LOANS FOR LIGHTS

Kenya POLITICAL DIALOGUE UNDER WAY

Ghana KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

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Italy, Sudan NEO-FASCIST LINES UP WITH NIF

Mauritius BIG FAT CONTRACTS AHEAD

Spotlight | Mozambique A STATE OF GRACE - FOR THE MOMENT

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Spotlight | Madagascar RAVONY BACK TO THE WALL

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Mozambique AIR FRANCE AND LAM CAN'T AGREE

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Spotlight | Tanzania IMF SHOWS A TOUGH GRIP

Tanzania MWINYI TACKLES CORRUPTION HEAD-ON

Spotlight | South Africa ENERGY WEEK

Spotlight | Madagascar RECIPROCAL MISTRUST

Africa PROJECTS OF THE WORLD BANK

Morocco PRIVATE SECTOR ROUND STARTS

Mauritius ASHOK JUGNAUTH

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Spotlight | East Africa THE SOUTH AFRICAN AND CHINESE OUTSIDERS

Spotlight | Ethiopia OBSTACLES FOR INVESTMENTS MUST GO

Uganda FINANCE HANGING FIRE

Djibouti PORT REFORM

Spotlight | Zimbabwe POWER III UNDERWAY

South Africa CONFERENCE ON LOW-COST HOUSING

Tanzania REVAMP FOR HOSPITALS

Ghana TWO STAGES FOR ABOADSE

Comoros islands CONCESSIONS FOR THE OPPOSITION

Spotlight | Southern Africa ESKOM APPEALS TO EC

Cameroon YAOUNDE IN NEW PUSH

Spotlight | Kenya BRUSHWOOD FIRES WITH DONORS

Kenya BANK CLEAN-UP

Zimbabwe TIMOTHY STAMPS

Spotlight | Madagascar OPEN BALLOT

Zimbabwe WORLD BANK PROJECTS

Ethiopia CALUB ENERGY PROJECT COST RISES

Eritrea ABANDONED INDUSTRY

Mali BHP IN LOULO PROJECT

Tanzania EXPENSIVE SOLUTION TO BADLY MANAGED IMPORT SUPPORT FUND

South Africa ECONOMIC STUDIES OUT SOON

Spotlight | Madagascar ECONOMIC DEADLINE

Kenya POST-ELECTORAL GOVERNMENT SHAKE-UP

Spotlight | Mozambique THE COSTLY BUSINESS OF PEACE

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Spotlight | Reunion island ACCUSATIONS OF CORRUPTION

Comoros islands CABINET FORMED BY M'CHANGAMA

Egypt FIRST CONTRACT FOR KUREIMAT

Ethiopia FULL AID FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY PLAN

Mauritius SUGAR CANE WASTE FOR ENERGY PROJECT

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Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Mali, Senegal, Togo
The secrets of Demex, the trader selling Russian oil in West Africa

Cameroon
SONEL SEMI-PUBLIC?

Zambia
SMALLER PACKAGE FOR ANGLO

Spotlight | Kenya
BARELY A THREE-MONTH HONEYMOON

Uganda
AES AHEAD IN FINAL STRETCH

Kenya
PRIORITY FOR RURAL HEALTH

Madagascar
ARMAND RALAIDOVY

Ethiopia
THREE WORLD BANK PROJECTS

Mozambique
NEW POWER-PLANT PROJECT

Nigeria
LNG PROJECT UP AND RUNNING

Madagascar
PAYING FOR FUN AND GAMES

Kenya
LOANS FOR LIGHTS

Kenya
POLITICAL DIALOGUE UNDER WAY

Ghana
KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

Spotlight | Madagascar
ZAFY AND RAVONY AT ODDS

Italy, Sudan
NEO-FASCIST LINES UP WITH NIF

Mauritius
BIG FAT CONTRACTS AHEAD

Spotlight | Mozambique
A STATE OF GRACE - FOR THE MOMENT

Mauritius
BIDDING FOR BAGASSE STATION

Spotlight | Madagascar
RAVONY BACK TO THE WALL

Eritrea
INTERNATIONAL AID DETAILED

Mozambique
AIR FRANCE AND LAM CAN'T AGREE

Mozambique
CHISSANO'S NEW CABINET

Spotlight | Tanzania
IMF SHOWS A TOUGH GRIP

Tanzania
MWINYI TACKLES CORRUPTION HEAD-ON

Spotlight | South Africa
ENERGY WEEK

Spotlight | Madagascar
RECIPROCAL MISTRUST

Africa
PROJECTS OF THE WORLD BANK

Morocco
PRIVATE SECTOR ROUND STARTS

Mauritius
ASHOK JUGNAUTH

Gabon
OIL MINISTER WITH A WORLD BANK PROFILE

Spotlight | East Africa
THE SOUTH AFRICAN AND CHINESE OUTSIDERS

Spotlight | Ethiopia
OBSTACLES FOR INVESTMENTS MUST GO

Uganda
FINANCE HANGING FIRE

Djibouti
PORT REFORM

Spotlight | Zimbabwe
POWER III UNDERWAY

South Africa
CONFERENCE ON LOW-COST HOUSING

Tanzania
REVAMP FOR HOSPITALS

Ghana
TWO STAGES FOR ABOADSE

Comoros islands
CONCESSIONS FOR THE OPPOSITION

Spotlight | Southern Africa
ESKOM APPEALS TO EC

Cameroon
YAOUNDE IN NEW PUSH

Spotlight | Kenya
BRUSHWOOD FIRES WITH DONORS

Kenya
BANK CLEAN-UP

Zimbabwe
TIMOTHY STAMPS

Spotlight | Madagascar
OPEN BALLOT

Zimbabwe
WORLD BANK PROJECTS

Ethiopia
CALUB ENERGY PROJECT COST RISES

Eritrea
ABANDONED INDUSTRY

Mali
BHP IN LOULO PROJECT

Tanzania
EXPENSIVE SOLUTION TO BADLY MANAGED IMPORT SUPPORT FUND

South Africa
ECONOMIC STUDIES OUT SOON

Spotlight | Madagascar
ECONOMIC DEADLINE

Kenya
POST-ELECTORAL GOVERNMENT SHAKE-UP

Spotlight | Mozambique
THE COSTLY BUSINESS OF PEACE

Spotlight | Uganda
RELATIONS WITH FRANCE FIRM UP

Spotlight | Reunion island
ACCUSATIONS OF CORRUPTION

Comoros islands
CABINET FORMED BY M'CHANGAMA

Egypt
FIRST CONTRACT FOR KUREIMAT

Ethiopia
FULL AID FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY PLAN

Mauritius
SUGAR CANE WASTE FOR ENERGY PROJECT

Chad
REFINERY: POLITICS FIRST?