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Published 1st March 1996

Vol 37 No 5

Super-charged Mbeki

Changes in the hierarchy aim to calm foreign nerves about the economy and the sucession

The emergence of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki as a super-minister coordinating economic and development policy strengthens his personal position and points to government concern ab...

Museveni's party piece

Veteran candidate Ssemogerere may make the presidential election a close-run affair

There is a growing feeling in Kampala that Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda and of the ruling National Resistance Movement, will win this year's election only by an embarrassin...

Bad luck

The honeymoon with the markets is over and the kingdom faces new political problems

A run of bad luck has hit Morocco. Even the recent heavy rains, which ended two years of drought in the Maghreb and brought the promise of good harvests to Algeria and Tunisia, cau...

Unsanctioned

US companies fear their Libyan oil holdings may be picked off by European rivals

When President Bill Clinton hosted President Jacques Chirac in January, a crucial item was missing from the summit agenda: Libyan oil. The omission is extraordinary as a row over t...

Pointers

Voice of Babel

Washington's Voice of America is to broadcast in three languages – Oromo and Tigrinya as well as Amharic – to Ethiopia in response to growing criticism from Addis Ababa about the c...

Island mentality

President Salmin Amour is living up to his opponents' expectations and they are living up to his. Immediately after the announcement of the (rigged) results of the last elections, ...

Coup down under 

A bungled attempt to launch a coup in Cameroon has ended in an Australian court. Between July and November 1994, Geoffrey Vernon Hughes, a businessman, tried to buy arms worth abou...

Ganja grief

Business leaders, among others, are complaining that Interior and Information Minister Driss Basri has been using the kingdom's latest crackdown on drugs smugglers to consolidate h...

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