SOUTH AFRICA Mandela's front line 1st March 1996 The government's key members are as follows. All ministers are ANC unless otherwise indicated
SOUTH AFRICA Super-charged Mbeki 1st March 1996 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 about the slow pace...
UGANDA Museveni's party piece 1st March 1996 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...
MOROCCO Bad luck 1st March 1996 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...
LIBYA Unsanctioned 1st March 1996 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...
ETHIOPIAUNITED STATES Voice of Babel 1st March 1996 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...
TANZANIA Island mentality 1st March 1996 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...
CAMEROON Coup down under 1st March 1996 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...
MOROCCO Ganja grief 1st March 1996 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 his shaky power...