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31 M~rch 1981
_ SUB-SANARAN AFRICA REPORT
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_ FOUO No. 715 _
_ ~ONTENTS
INTER-AFRICAN AFFF~IRS ~
' Br iefs
Ghanaian Cooperati~n 1 ~
- Cha~~ian Refugees in Cameroon 1
- Rebuil~-ling of Zibyan Bank ~
ANGOLA .
Brief s
Coo~eration Witn Brazil Viewed 2
Updated Fishing Legislation ~
CEPITRAL ATRICAN RFPUBLIC
Dacko's Reyuest f'or Fokassa's Extradition Seen as Political
Gesture
(Jos-Blaise Alima; JEUNE AFRIQUE, Feb 81) .~...o........ 3
Briefs
= Interna.tional Mo~etary Fund Loa.~ ~
- Pehoua's Presidential Candidacy 5 ~
_ UN F~rnt~r~7enc,y Aid 5
Lala I~.xcluded From FFO 6
CHAD
- Briefs
- GUVT Cabinet Meeting 7
CONGO
- r;t'('orts 'I'o RE:~~rive Sugar F'i�oduction Uescribed
(MARCHr;S TR~JPICAUX LT r~DITERR.ANEEN5, 13 Feb 81) 8
Brie fs
CDR Air Ahr.eement y
'elnarrh i c 1'ri ce 1 ncrE~ase' y -
li~::u�, i 1 i rin Cc,oneration
Fr~~ncii I~in~ncin~; P.~,r.eements LU _
kevised ~ldmiiiislr.-aLive Ur~anization
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KEIJ~~A
Devaluation of Shilling Reported -
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Briefs
~ Moi's Contacts With Foreign Chiefs 13
Effectiveness of Devaluation Questioned 13
Parliamen�,arians to Israel 14
Foreign Affairs Ministers~ Meeting 11t
Anti-Cattle Theft Measures 14
_ LIBERIA
Doe Said To Be Proving Equal to His Responsibilities
(Carlos Moore; JEUNE AF'kIQUE, 18 Feb 81) 15
Briefs
_ ROK Cultural Agreement 17
MADAGASCAR
Resurgence of Stu~ient Unrest Probed
(Sennen Andriamirado; JEUNE AFRIQUE, 4 Feb 81) 18
MALI
- Survey of Bilater3l Cooperation With FY~ance
(MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS, 13 Feb 81) 21
NIGER
Meeting of Dam~s Financial Backers _
(MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS, 20 Feb 81) 23
SENEGAL
- Nr.w Government~s Chai~ge of Policy Surprises Opposition
(S,ylviane Kamara; JEUNE AFRIQUE, 18 Feb E31) 24
Recommendations of Educational Conference Reported ~
(MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS, 13 Feb 81) 27
- Brief s
Ir_terprofessional Convention 28
Dakar Free Zone 28
~ Forestry Projects 28
WADB Loan 28 _
Financial Maxiagement Medsures 29
French Scientific Cooperation 29
- Italian Food Aid 29
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TANZANIA
- Brief s
Coconut Palm Project 30
UPPER VOI,TA
~~inance, Rural Aid, New Government's Priorities
(MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS, 20 Feb 8'1) 31
Brief s
Cooperation With FRG 33
Pilot Perimeter 33
Air Volta 33
Ra.dio Agreements 33
ZAIRE
- Allotment of Foreign Exchange Detailed
_ (MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS, 30 Jan 81) 34
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Bri ef s
Scientific ~ooperation With South Korea 36
Buta-Zenga Airport 36
~ USSR at FIKIN in 19~1 36
Y~agoslavia: Agricultural Projects 36
~ Romanian Wood Industry Delegation 36
ZAMBIA
Brief s
- IMF ~elegation's Arrival 38
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INTER-AFRICAN AFFAIRS
BRIEFS
- GHANAIAN COOPERATION--On 19 and 20 February, Ghanaian President Hilla Limann paid
- an official visit to Senegal during which he discussed the poiitical situation on
the African continent with President Abdou Diouf. Concerr?i-~g economic affairs,
according to the joint communique, the Ghanaian and Seneg~ilese chiefs of state
reaffirmed their determination to carry out the program ot bilateral cooperation ,
drawn up at the December meeting of the joint commission set up between the two
countries. They agreed to implement procedures and means that will strengthen,
_ broaden and diversify their cooperation. President Limann invited the Senegalese
~ chief of state ta visit Ghana ar a date to be set later. [Text] [Paris MARCHES ,
TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 27 Feb 81 p 483] 11,464
CiiADIAN REFUGEES IN CAMEROON--The UN High Commis~ion for Refugees has opened an
elementary school for Chadian refugees in Kousseri, a Cameroonian city that is now
home to some 100,000 Cr,adian refugees, according to a bulletin published by the
High Commission on 19 February in Geneva. The school is operating with 40 Cameroon-
ian tPachers and 20 Chadian instructors. The High Commission has also sponsored
, 20 Chadian students so that th~y might be admitted to the University of Yaounde.
- ~Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 27 Feb 81 p 493]
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REBIIILDING OF LIBYAPJ BANK-On 8 February the AFP (French Preas Agency~ correspondent
- in Ndjamena, reported on the rebuilding of the Cha~ian-Arab-Libyan Commerc;e and De-
= velopment Bank~ a project that contrasta sharply with the surrounding abandon~d _
ruins constituted by many buildings in the Cha,dian capital, Since 14 Janua:Ly-54
workers have been working round the clock to rebuild this three-story building Which
burned down in Februar3r 197� and is located not very far from the downtown area.
Construction costs will come to 30 million CFA [African Financial Community~ francs,
according to the Chadian contractor, Aside from the prestige involved, the reopen- `
_ ing of the Libyan bank may be interpreted as a geature in aiding Ndjamena to relau~ch
its econo~r. The absence of ar~y bank in the Chadian capital is a deterr.ant to the
reaumption of economic activities. Today, due to the lack of security and safes,
- merchanta deposit their money in Cameroon and Nigeria~ Currency circulation is
threatened in Nd~amena where one no longer comes across at~ything but old, torn
banlmotes. Elsewhere, the Chadian Government is continuing its efforts to reopen
the Central Bank and obtain funds to pay officials' salaries. 1'hus Mr Maina,, Cha,d's _
chief trea.su~er~ has aga,in ma,de a trip to Yaounde to discuss the matter~ [Text]
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COOPERATION WIT~i BRAZIL VIEWED--Luis da Fonseca Santos, Angolan minister of con-
struction, went to Rio de Janeiro on 21 January for a 12-day mission concerning
Brazil's possible cooperation in the Angolan public housing construction program.
The minister, who was due to have meetings with building contractors and govern-
ment authorittes in Salvador da Bahia, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, said that
~ his mission was to get~information about Brazilian experience in the construc-
_ tion area and to study the possibilities for concl.uding a cooperation agreement
_ with Bra~il for constructing public housing in Angola. [TPxt] [Paris MARCHES
TROFZCAUX ET MEDiTERRANEENS in French 13 Feb 81 p 391] 9631
~ UPAATED FISHING LEGISLATION--Emilio Guerra, minister of fisheries, has set up
a committee tasked with updating the colonial-era fishing legislation still in
force in Angola but which has become unsuited to present realities. [Text]
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC ~
DACKO'S FEQUEST FOR BOKASSA'S EXTRAI)ITION SEEN AS POLITICAL GESTURE
Paris JEUNE AFRIQUE ~.n French 4 Feb 81 p 20
[Article by Jos-Blaise Alima: "Requien for Six Accomplices"] -
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[Text] That which one could have taken to be winds of ~ustice
is undoubtedly nothing other than a simple political operatiion.
Six accomplices o~` Bokassa, condemned to death in February 1980 by the criminal
court, were executed in Bangui on 24 January 1981 at dawn. Among those put to -
deatfi were two high-ranking officers (General Joseph Mayomokola and Captain
Joseph Mokoa) and two sons-in-law of the ex-emperor (Jean Bruno Dedeavode and
Robert Boukende). Some are maintaining that the winds of justice are blowing
on the banks of the Ubangi River. Indeed, the condemned men were blamed, to
varying degrees, for having participated in the massacres perpetrated by Jean-
Bedel Bokassa during the last 2 years of his reign: But the decision, because
it was so sudden, has more the marks of a political operation than of a concern
with ~ustice.
A Semblance of a Trial
The executions in Bangui took place only a week before the constitutional refer-
_ ~ndum, a prelude to normal political life. In addition, presidential elections
are scheduled for the month of March. Four week~ before the deadline, at least _
four candidates are preparing to seek the mandate of the voters. Like President
Dacko himself, his three adversaries collaborated with the old regime. That is
as true for Henri Maidou (Republican Farty for Progress) as for Sylvestre Bangui
(Rally for the Central African People) and Ange Patasse (Movement for Central
African Liberation). Each of them will try to demonstrate that in actuality he _
did not actively take part in the imperial government. This is certain2~ what
the various witnesses tried to do at the time of the sham trial of December 1980
at which Bokassa was condemned to death by default (J.A. No. 1044).
For President Dacko the past is over, and new etructures must be set up. This _
resulted in the creation of his own party, the Central African Democrat~t.c Union
in February 1980. On the advice of France, he tried at first to make a"demo-
cratic overture" toward Henri Maidou and Sylvestre Bangui. That alliance of ~
- convenience was brief, as Mr Maidou and Mr Bangui were each, in turn, ousted from
the government. ~
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Today, Ange Patasse is the only front-rank.ing per~onality who has not yet collabo-
rated with him.
There is also more and more talk of a Backo-Patasse team (J.A. No. 1045). Af~er
more than a year of detenti~n, the latter was released in I3ovember 1980. In Janu-
ary, he went before a tribunal which resulted in...a dismissed indictment. ~
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Collegial Government
Everything happens as though the chief of state was concerned to deal considPrate-
ly with the toan who not so long ago was seen as his most intractable enemy. At
the time of the ministerial shuffle of November 1980, did he not entrust the for-
= eign affairs portfolio to a friend of Patasse, Father Ngaro, the only representa-
tive of a certain "opposition"?
This is why it is believed the two men may be able to reach an understanding on a
collegial system of government. But first they must come out winners in an elec-
tion which looks wide open. One might also speculate that President Dacko's
gesture was inspired by those in the French ca:+ital who see Henri Maido~a as a _
serious rival who also has solid Parisian support.
Half-Heartedly
In a similar vein, it is important to present the voters with a profile more
flattering than one of an indecisive man manipulatPd by foreign advisers. David
Daclco therefore wanted, for once, to show f~.rmness. He knows that the demand fc~r
Bokassa's extradition--half-heartedlp addressed to the Ivorian authorities--has no
chance of being met. Since his popularity rating is not the highest--despite the _
introduction of a multi-party system--he must resort t~ spectacular action, even
at the price of rolling a f ew heads. A strange sort of justice which executes _
_ si.mple nonentities, while leaving their master undisturbed to lead a pleasant
life in a luxurious VIP villa in Abidjan. Will that suffice to exorcise the de-
~ mon of Bokassa? Nothing is less certain.
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
, BRIEFS
~ INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND LOAN--Jean-Pierre Le Bouder, the prime minister of the
Central African Republic, stated in Bangui on 10 February that the IMF (International
Monetary Fund) was to provide financial assistance to the CAR on the basis of a
medium-term program to be initiated in 1981, totaling an sid of 4.4 billion CFA
initially, fol~owed by another 20 bi_llion in 1982-1983. Le Bouder pointed out that
this wasa."minimum program and an absolute prerequisite f~r the fnreign financera -
of the Central African Republic to grant a moratosium to ease the foreign deb t and
diversify development financing sources, to be accomplished through the resumption of
financial cooperation." The main lines of this program call for a rhre2 percent
growth in output and a six percent growth in exports compared to the 1980 levels. ~
Another IMF requirement would be an improvement and rationalization of the financial
managc~ment of public and semipublic en~erprises. This calls for a reduction of the
1981 t?udget defecit from 10 to 7.2 billion CFA francs. The 1980 balance of paym~te
I deficit would have to be reduced from 5.2 billion to 4.7 billion DFA franca this year.
, [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 20 Feb 81 p 434] 5157
PEH~UA'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY--On 14 February Francoia Pehoua, former minis ter under
Emperor Bokassa and former director of central services of the Bank of Central Afrzcan
~ St~tes (BCAS) announced in Rangui his candidacy for the presidency of the Central
_ African Republic. He was thus the seeond candidate, after Tandalet Hozi Okito,
president of the Central African Socialist Farty (CSP) to announce his candid acy for :
the preside*~tial elections which will take place 15 March next. [Excerpt] [Paris
MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 20 Feb 81 p 434] 5157
IIN II~~RGENCY AID~--The Central A�rican xepublic (CAR~ is a cou.~try in a state of
, extreme diatress which the international community shauld provide emerg~ency aid for
from both the humanitarian and economic and financial standFoints, This ie ee~ence
what IIN Undersecretary for Special Folitical Affaira Abdulrahim ~'arah maintaine in -
- a report on the situation in this country m~de f~llowing the mission of investigar- _
tion in the CAR wtlich he wa.s charg~ed with by Secretary General Kurt ~lald}~~eim and
which he completed on 4 February~ Aa for /humanitarian aid~ [in boldface], Mr
- Farah feels that the CAR has urg+ent need of inedicine, food~ vaccines, hospital equip-
ment, pu~aps and water filtera, warehousing facilitiea and meana of access to remote -
rural a,reas. In the /economic domain~ [i,n boldface], according to Mr Farah, the
CAR ia the vi.ctim of an extremely serious budget crisis which jeopardizes the main- _
tenance of the public services, among others~ The IIN offioial poin.~e~. out that,
- ~ i,n add:ltion to the asaistance the International Monetary Fund may in future provide ~
it with, the Centraa. dfxicau Government ou~t to appeal to the international comzmz-
nity for eubstaatial eupports d3rect budget aid grants, donations aud no-intereet -
loans. Mr F'arah's complete report will be publiahed at a later date, [Text] [Paxis
MARCHES TROPICAIIX ET MIDITER~ANEgTS in French 13 Feb 81 P 379] 11466
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LALA EXCLUDED FROM FPO--The Ubangi People's Patriotic Front (FPO), a Central Afri-
can oppositic~n movement whose president is Abel Goumba, publicly announced its
de~ision un 7_0 February to exclude its former spokesman, Dr lddi Lala. Lala, who
- works for a single opposition candidacy in the presidential elections to be h~ld
in tr~ Ceniral African Republi~ on 15 March, created the Central African National
Liberation Movement (MCLN) at the end of December. [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPI-
- CAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 27 Feb Rl p 493] 11,464 ~
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GUNT CABINET MEETII3G--The Transitional National Union Gover:unent (GUNTj of Chad
met in a Cab inet meeting on 19 February. According to the communique published
- f ollowing the meeting, the Cabinet decided to use "all possible means to demili-
tarize the city of Ndjamena." The measure was taken "in accordance with the Lagos
accords," which bring together the 11 factions involved in a settlement of the
conflict. The problem of the withdrawal of Libyan forces is not mentioned in the
communique. The Cabinet also reaffirmed the need to fill the vacant posts of
minister of defense, finance, development of the territory and reconstruction. _
Those holding the posts were respectively Hissein Habre, Mahamat Saleh and Hadjaro
Senoussi, who were removed on 25 April 1980. [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET .
MEDITERRANEENS in French 27 Feb 81 p 493] 11,464
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CONGO :
" g~'ORTS TO REVIVE SUGAR FxOT1UCTI0N DESCRIBID -
_ Paris MARCHES 'I'flOPICAUX E~t' MEDITERRANEIIVS in French 13 Feb 81 pp 381-382
[Articles "SIICO Renovation: Divergent Yiews on Production Capacity~~]
[Text~ At the present time ~on~o authorities axe trying to obtain f5znding necessary
for the renovation of SUCO (Cong+o S~gar Company~ formerly SOSUNIARI [Niari S~.gax -
- Compar~y~), Sugar production, which ha,d risen to 100,000 ton3 before 1970, has ~
gradually declined since then and, far from being abla to honor its export commi.t-
ments with 9frican neighbors like the CAR, Cong~o cannot ~nanage to supply its oer.~
nationa~ market. -
- Following nationalization of the company~ r~hich happened in 1970, problems have
been ~ultiplying at the level of technical production as well as those of organi- -
zation and mana,gement~ The authoritieg therefore decided to resume control of the
situat.ion and in Auguet 1979 signed a contract for technical assistance with the
SICAS [expanaion unl~own~, an engineering, management and service company founded
by +,he 54NIDZ.AA (Multinational Development Compa~y for Foo3-Producing Farm Industries
of the Grands M~oulina de Paris combine~, and the AYA International NP [expansion
_ unksiown~, a Dutch compa~y,
~ The plan for the renovation ~f the mills is noW ready but granters of funds have
diverg~nt view.~ as to the capacity to a11ow for in the mills. For reasons ha,ving
- to do with "econom:es of sca7.e [of operations~" and the profitability threshold, ~
some would plan on a production capaci~y of 70 000 tons by 1985~ Others feel that
- this figu..~e is excessive because Af [available~ outlets, Actually, by that date
_ the national market could absorb A. maxi ir~~m of 20, 000 tons, which would leave 50, 000
_ tons to be exporte3~ The "quota't given in the augar supplement to the first Lome
agreement for exports guars,nteed the EEC was 5, OOQ tons, but there has been a dis- -
_ pute over the application of the terme of the supplement and it is not cez�tai.n tha,t
= this figure will reappear in the next aupplement to be neg~otiated in April. It
seems that Angola would absorb at least 5,000 tons and the CAH and Zaire could re-
sume tlzeir imports fr.om Congo, but that ~would leave a large volume available for -
export to othgr countries and the sugar futures situation appears to be uncertain,
despite the 1980 recover,y,
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~ CONGO
BRIEFS '
GDR AIR AGREEMENT--An air transport agreement was signed on 12 February betw~en
the Cango and the GDR. The agree~ent stipulates that airplanes from either country
will provide direct flights between the two capitals. [Text] [Paris MARCHES _
TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 20 Feb 81 p 43(~. 5157 '
'ANARCHIC PRICE INCREASE'--During a press conference, held in Brazzaville on 13 ~
= February, Elenga Ngaporo, Congolese minister of commerce, estimated that "the
anarchic price increa~ses of the beginning of the year were the consequences of the
elimination of the National Solidarity Fund and the lowering of the income tax on
- salaries." [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 20 Feb 81
" p 436] 5157
' BRAZILIAN COOPERATION--Following the official visit to Brazil by the Congolese _
minister of foreign affairs, Pierre Nze (MARCHES TnOPICAUX, 20 February 1981), at
- has been announced in Brasilia that Brazil has gr~.l.ted a line of credit to the
Congo amounting to $18 million for the Pointe-Noire fishing port. Brazil will
- deliver fishir.g boats and build cold storage facilities and a pier for the Pointe-
Noire fishing complex. In addition, tre Congo has proposed that Brazil build ,
hydroelectric dams an~' all or part of 4,000 lan of roads, Nze said. Gn 18 F'ebruary,
the two countries signed an economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation
agreement providing for the establishment af a joint commission. Brasilia an3
B razzaville agreed to cooperate in the f ields of oil, alternate forms of eneroy,
agriculture and education as well. Brazil's possible participation in oil pros- 1=
p ecting operations in the Congo was examined in Rio de Janeiro on 16 February by I
Brazilian officials and the Congolese minister of foreign affairs. Nze met with i
the acting president of the national company PETROBRAS [Braziliar ?'LL''oleum Corpora- ,
, tion]. Brasilia is to grant Brazzaville a line of credit for va~.~~,us ~rojects but
the amount has not yet been set. The Congo hopes that Brazil will ~,articipate in _
agricultural projects and the construction of roads to open up the cot~:~try, hotels
and housing. The Congolese minister of foreign affairs requested information on
the production of alcohol fuel in Brazil. He said that his country produced sugar
cane, manioc and wood, which could be used in the production of alcohol. Congoles~
Minister of Energy Rodolphe Adada will go to Brazil to study the signing of a
offshore oil prospecting agreement for the Congo, in which PETROBRAS and HYDRO-
CONGO would be partners. It should be noted that oil operations and prospecting in
the Congo are now in the hands of ELF [Gasoline and Lubricants Company of France],
AGIP (Italian Petroleum Enterprise] and Esso, with only the first two acting as
operators~ [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 27 Feb 81
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FRENCH FINANCING AGR~ITS-On 7 February in Brazzaville, three financing agree-
ments f~~~ a total of' Fr 12.1~5 million were signed between France, represented
by its ambassador to Congo, N'Lr Andre Arnaud, and Congo. These three agreements
- hav~ to d~ with studies on paper pulp, the rerouting of ~he Cong~o-Ocean ~ailroa.d
- and aid for the Trans-Congolese Communications Ag~ency (ATC), [Text] [Paris MARCF~S -
- TROPICAIIX ET MEDITF~RRANF~II~TS in French 13 Feb 81 p 382] 11466
- Rr,'-'VISID A,DMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATIJN--Presided ovex by Col Sassou Nguesso, the 6 Feb-
ruary Cabinet meeting was devoted to the examination and adoption of organi.zation _
chaxt~ foi� the Ministries of Agxicu3.ture and Livestock, Water and Foresto, Justice
and National Dducation~ [Text~ [Paris MARCHES TflOPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEII~TS a.n French
13 Feb 81 p 382] 11466
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~IYA
D..-~JAI,IIgTION OF SHILLING BEPORTID
- Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEII+TS in French 13 Feb 81 p 384 =
[Text] On 3 February the Ker~yan shilling was denalua,ted by about 5,07 percent in
_ relation to the SDR. IIp until then 1~Dfl was worth 9~66 shxllings, Now it fs worth -
10~15 shillings. In relation to the American dollar, the parity of $1 to 8 shillir~.gs
which had been previously established is now $1 to 8~40 ahillings~
The Na3robi governrnent thus decided on a solution which it had for a long time re-
jected and, in announci.n.g the newa, the Central Bat~lc of Kez~,va has attempted to
_ minimize it by referring to it as a"eli~t ad~ustment." Moreover, the news reached
_ Paris late, even at the embassy, and in the London press only the TIMES published
it in its 4 February issue,
It is worth noti.ng tha.t, brou~t on by the economic and financial difficulicies the -
country is experiencing, this devaluation was suggested neither when the largely
deficit 1980-1981 budget (MTM, 27 June 1980, p 1637) wae presented nor when the
economic report for ~979, which outlined pessimistic proapects for the f~iture (M73~I,
20 June 1980~ p 1573)~ was presented nor when the agreemen~t concluded with the
Interna.tional Monet Fund (Il~'~ (MRM, 24 October and 14 Nonembex 1980, pp 2627
and 3042 respectively~ last fa11 was signed either. While it was at the injunction
of the IMF that it was decided on, it was not done so to the extent the latter had
recor~ended which~ according to Ke~,yan grovernment circles, should ha,ve been set at -
- at least 15 percent.
It is thus very likely that the measure that ha.s been adopted constitutes merely
a first atag~e which Will be followed by others at aome more or less near future
time,
The effect$ of the pre~ent devaluation will produce an immediat~ rise in the prices
" of all i.mported products and articles and, in theory, an increased forei~n demand
' for Ker~yan products. It would be wise to Wait and see whether Kenya can limit its _
imports arld increase its exporte, Which would preauppose an increase in Kenyan -
production, `
Now there is no chance of the country~s ironing out ita difficulties in a short
time~ those connected with its oil bill (while Wafting for [the development of]
other sources of energy, we can hardly see hoW it oould be reduced by much~ and
its food purchasea, brought on by drought and the dxop in the price of coffee, a -
product that usually guarantees it most of its hard curxency funds,
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~ the ether hand, there is a~od chance that the inflation rate, wlii.ch last year
came to about 14 percent, will rise 3ust as will the baleace of payments deficit.
According to the governor of the Central Bank, Mr Dacan Ndegwa, this balarice, which
atill showed a surplus of 1.6 billion s~.ll~.n~s 3n t97g, aho~red a deficit of' 1,8
billion shillings ~n December 1980, thus indicating a dre~p of 3,4 billion sr3?li.nga
in 1 year's time,
And las~ly, it is likely that the bank's foreign exahange resez;-9s will also go _
into fl.irther decline. Also ac~ording to Mr Ndegwa, last l~ovember they covered =
only 3,:4 months of i~nports, whereas the ideal figure has ~.].ways been a coverag~e -
of at least 4 months,
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KENYA
_ BRIEFS
MOI'S CONTACTS WITH FOREIGN CHIEFS--President Daniel Arap Moi, who went to the ~
Sudan in December shortly after receiving the Ethiopian chief of state and who
has only recently rec~ived the Gabonese president (MARCHES TROPICAUX, 5 and 12
_ December 1980 and 13 February 1981), has organized a new series of ineetings with .
his counterparts from India, Nigeria and Djibouti. Leaving for Bombay on 22 Febru- -
ary, he was to be in India until the 27th. He is expected in Lagos at the beginning
of March and in Djibouti at the end of the month. His new contacts do not seem to
have quite the same motivations as the preceding ones, which were almost exclu- -
sively on the subject of the search for a regional entente in the expanded Horn of
Africa. His visit to India mainly appears to be linked to an attempt to strengthen
_ ^ooperation between two partners of the Commonwealth which already have close -
trading relations. rt should not be forgotten that Kenya has a large community
of Indian nationals (some 100,000). His visit to Djibouti is the only one during
which the problem of ~he regional entente mentioned previously an entente that
- would isolate Somalia could win out in discUSSions. Moi's visit to Nigeria
will be of the greatast importance because of the many sub~ects that will be de- _
bated (from the Libyan intervention in Chad to the Saharan problem and including
all those.concerning southern Africa) and because of the importance of the federa-
. tion on the African and even international scene. Moreover, this visit to Lagos
_ should enable the Kenyan chief of state to become better prepared to assume his
future duties as presideut of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), whose summi.t
~ meeting will be held in Nairobi in the spring. [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX
ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 27 Feb 81 p 496] 11,464
EFFECTIVENESS OF DEVALUATION QUESTIONED--It is still too�early to tell the effects
of the devaluation decreed on 3 February upon the injunction of the International
Monetary Fund (MARCHES TROPICAUX of 13 February, p 384), but Kenyan businessm~an
doubt the effectiveness of this measure in aiding the country's economic and finan-
cial recovery. It is becoming increasingly obvious that Kenyans will have diffi-
culty limiting their imports, which will cost 5 pPrcent more, and in increasing the
volume of their exports, now worth S percent less. The balance of payments and the
trade balance may therefore experience a substantial worsening in their deficit in
the weeks ahead. One should note the figures publish~d by the Central Bank marking
the disastrous trend of the situation in recent months. In particular, the balance
of ~ayments, which still had a surplus of 1.6 billion shillings at the end of 1979,
showed a deficit of 241 million shillings by the end of i�Iarch ].980. The drop
speeded up throughout the year and the fi~Lre at the end of December was placed at
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2 billion shillings (the deficit of 1.8 billion given previously corresponds to
the middle of the month). As for the trade balance, its drop was even more
vertiginous: The deficit at the end of December was some 5 billion shillir.gs. For
their part, foreign exchange reserves of the Yential Bank have,steadily dr~Qp~e~CO
From 4,971,0OO,OQO shillings at the end. of. ?4a_cti 9R0 thc fe~l to ~+,4~~, ,
at the end of June, 3.91 billion at th~ end cf ~ctober, 3,805,000,000 at r_he end
- of November and an estimated 3.5 billion by the end of January this year. The in-
crease in the oil bill was the main cause of this deterioration. In f act, while =
between January and April 1979 that bill amounted to 3,674,000,000 shillings, over
- the f irst four months of 1980, it amounted to 5,933,000,000 (up 62 percent). It
should be noted that during the periods in question, the deficit in the trade
balance was respectively 975 million and 2,431,OOO,U00. Finally, the Central Bank ~
also indicates that authorizations to take out foreign currency rose fr.om
5,797,000,000 shillings during the first quarter of 1979 to 9,715,000,000 during
~ the same half of 1980 (up 67.6 percent). [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET
MEDITERRANEENS in French 27 Feb 81 p 496] 11,464
- pART~T~iENTARIANS TO ISRAEIr-A d Jiegation of Ke~yan parliamentarians is to go to
I s r a e l d
u
r in g the second half uf February at the imritation of a worker representa- _
tive from tha,t country, Mr Mosk,e Shahal, Kho visited in N
a
iro
bi 2 mon t
h s a, g
b. T
h e
. gex~yan parliamentariana' visit will be the first one made by Africans to the Jewish
state since the series of breaks in diploma.tiC relations following the Yom Kippur
war ~.n 1973. Before the war, Israel had maintained relations with many Afxican
countries and contributed to their development in various fielda, particularly
agriculture arid construction~ Let us, moreover, remember that, during ehe ce~llow~ded ,
"~tebbe Operation" for the liberation of Iaraeli hostages in IIganda~ r~ra ~
_ Israeli Pl~oserationd at~~ robiP~
Bort~Co~Se~OPICAII3CcETco~ntDlibut~st~ ~~ch
cees of the p . [ ] [
13 Feb 81 p 384J 11466 _
gpg~G~ ~ggp~.RS MINISTERS~ MEE'1'ING--On 4 F'ebruar'Y in Nairobi, Foreign Office Under-
secretary in Charge of Commonwealth Affairs 83.ahard Luce met with Kenyaxi Minister _
of Foreign Affairs Robert Ouko, with whom he disc~,uSae~d~OPICAIIX ET 1'~DIand~ ~
problema concerning Q.frica. ~Text] [Paria MAR
French 13 Feb 81 p 384J ~14~
ANTI-CATTLE THEFT MEASURES--Godfrey Kariuki, minister of state in the office of the
- president, announced that a measure had been adopted to punish cattle rustlers _
operating among the Turkana-Pokot and Samburu tribes living in the Rift Valley
province. According to this measure, any tribe proven to be guilty of theft will be
forced Co pay an indemnity to the victimized tribe in cattle whose number would be _
equivalent to the number of heads of cattle stolen. [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX
ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 20 Feb 81 p 438] 5157
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LTBERIA
DOE SAID TO BE PROVING EQUAL TO HIS RESPUNSIBILITIES
Paris JEUNE AFRIQ~ in French 18 Feb 81 p 35
[Article by Carlos Moore: "A Wink at Reagan"; passages enclosed in slantlines
prin*_ed in italics]
[Text] Sergeant Doe mearis Lo celebrate year one of the "redemp-
tion" by freeir?g the last political prisoners.
With its traditional arrogance, the American-Liberian elite (90,000 people) had
predicted that the junta of sergeants and corporals in power since 12 April 1980,
the date of William T~lbert's fall, would have /"the longevity of :ice-cream in
the sun."/ Now, 2 months following the first anniversary of the assassination of
the acting president of the OAU, the People's Redemption Council (CPR? and its
28-y.~ar-old president, Sergeant-Ma~or Samuel K. ~oe, are still doing well despite
a plc~nanet3ng economy, a continuing source of worry for the new leaders.
A~~inst All Logic _
At the time of the coup, the economic situation was not promising: only $5 mil-
lion in the treasury, $700 million in external debt, and a scarcity of principal
commoditi~s. But against all financial logic, the junta doubled the soldiers'
pay to $250 per month and increased the functionaries' salaries to insure the
support of the army and the civil service. The result: a deficit of more than
- $50 million at the end of 1980.
~ Reconciliation
In early November of the same year, the climate was one of austerity in Monrovia
when Doe, a man of few words who hides his face behind dark glasses, made public
the 1980-1g81 budget of only $372.5 million, made possible by a draconian series
of cuts in government expenditures (freeze on wages and hiring). All Liberians
were made to buy savings bonds equivalent to 2 months` wages. Those measures
~ should bring in $50 million to the state.
To attract indispensable external aid, the junta initiated a policy of reconcili.a-
tion with the rest of West Africa. Thus, it freed several dozen political pris-~ _
oners, including Victoria Tolbert, widow of the former president. According to
the authorities, less than 100 prisoners remai~, and the~ will be released before
12 April.
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- At the same time, Doe abandone~l his flirtation wi~: Gthiopia, Libya, Cuba, and
the USSR. He even gave assurances ro ~~tashington that he would return power to
civilian authority before the general elections scheduled for 1983.
At once, the Interna~ional i~or~tar;~ F~?r.~? (T*'~Fl -.~�ovi~?ed Liberia. r~ith an $85 mil-
lion credit. And the United States; ho~e in~~eetrler.:s in thafi c~~untr;~ come to _
$342 million, provided $48 million in emnrgency assistance. At the enci of Janu-
= ary, in a wink at the new American administration, the NEW LIBERIAN, the lcktu1s
' official crgan, expressed the hope that President Ronald Reagan would i p~ P
- things where the Carter administration le�t them."/ It is true tha~~ for Washing-
ton, where Liberia has always been regarded ~.s a/"friendly and allied"% country, _
- there is no question of pushing the junta into the arms of the USSR. Especially _
since Monrovia does not want a rupture and resolutely insists on recognition of
its /"veritable nonalignment."/
Nevertheless, despite their efforts, the leaders have not yet succeeded in ridding
themselves of their own authoritarian methods. The chief of state recently threat-
ened to imprison the national soccer team if it lost to Gambia. Fortunately= the
issue became moot when the match ended in a draw.
Barracks Life
Doe and his colleagues are respected for their integrity and their simplicity, ~
two c;ualities lacking in the previous governments. The president of the CPR has
traded Tolbert's Mercedes Benz for a modest Honda. His wife Nancy, illiterate,
the mother of two chilciren, continues to bring his meals to the office, as she
did in the days of b arracks life. And the diplomatic corps is unanimous: after
a bloodbath for which he deserved to be banned from Africa, the little sergeant
from Monrovia is showing himself each day to be more equal to his responsibili-
ties.
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LIBERIA
BRIEI~ S
ROK CULTURAL AGREEMENT--On 6 February in Seoul, Gabriel Bacchus Matthews, Liberian
minister of foreign affairs, and Kim Tong-hwi, acting minister of foreign affairs
of South Korea, signed a bilateral cultural agreement. The Liberian minister
signed the agreetnent following an official 4-day stay in South Korea and before
going on to India. It should be recalled that on 22 January, the South Korean
_ minister of scierice and technology went to Monrovia to deliver to the Liberian
chief of state a special message rram South Korean President Chon Doo Hwan. In
the course of his 5-day visit, he also met with the ministers of foreign affairs,
_ agriculture and education (MARCHES of 30 January, p 254). In addition, a Liberian
delegation headed by the minister of commerce went to Seoul in December, at which �
time a trade agreement was signed between the two governments (MARCHES of 9 January,
p 82). [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 27 Feb 81
_ p 491] 11,464
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MADAGASCAR
RESURGENCE OF.STUDENT UNREST PROBED
- Paris JEUNE AFRIQUE in French 4 Feb 81 pp 34~-35
[Article by Sennen Andriamirado: ~~When History Repeats Itself"]
[Text] Ten years after the fa11 of Tsiranana, is the big island
going to experience a serious new crisis?
_ Eaxly in the morning, vehicles leave the petroleum depot of Alarobia (northern out-
skirts of Antananaxivo). Tank trucks lead the parade of motorists to the gasoline
distribution sta,tions. When the delivsry men have exhausted their stock, the un-
lucky will have no other recourse but to aba,ndon their cars and wait for the next
uncertain delivery.
Still in Antananarivo~ mixed patrols of soldiers, gendaz,ies and policemen, dressed
in anti-riot gear, cover. the commarcial districts. They regulariy disperse bands of
ZOAM [Unemployed You~;h r~f Madagascar] (an organization which unites a11 the maxginal
youth of the capit,al) attacking some store reserved for pe~ple with well filled
wallets.
Bloody Repression
Further~ in the axid South, an attempted coup was appaxently foiled at tne very last
minute. Suicidal, becaase they have nothing to lose in a region where only thorny
plants grow, the shepherds and farmers in the South revolt easily. In April 1971,
supported by the MUNIMA [National Movement for the Independence of Madagascar] Paxty
, (Madagascar to the Malagasy~~ they tolled the death knell of the regime of the late
President Philibert Tsirana.na.: attacking the military posts virtually baxe handed~
hordes of have-nots took to the bush. The rep.ression was bloo:ly. The leader of
NONIMA, the old na~tionalist Monja Jaona, who was arres~ted in a cave where he had set
- up his headquartexs, was sentenced to p;,-ison it was not his first axrest. One
yeax l~.ter, in Nlay 1972, ~gascax rose up.
Toda,y history seems to be repeating itself. Picked up while leaving a plane in
Antananarivo, where he was to give a speech at the university, Monja Jaona has,
_ since December 1980, been under house arrest. "For attempted uprising," President
Didier Ratsiraka said. And also "to protect him," as he was threatened by an assas-
sination plot. (See JEUNE AFRIQUE, No 104~~. But this step once again turned the
old man he is nearly 80 years old into a symbol of the resistance.
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"Ratsiraka Has Rotten Luck''
The taking out of circulation of Monja Jaona, hardly suspected of aspiring to any
kind of power he has never held that it is the vocation of a political party to
hdist itself into a position of power in order to implement its program inc~.tes _
a s~ir. Support committees secretly di~tribute avenging pamphlets. Abroad, sympa~-
thizers state that ~;he old lea~?er :s ill ~_.nd x.s conducting a hL:n;er strike. Accorc~-
ing to our information, this is not true tbut Amnesty International~ which requested
a claxification from the Malagasy government, did not receive a response~, Politi-
cians, who had formerl y decided that they would not get ba.ck into the axena, axe
taking up a position in his favor. This is the case for the writer and former
Minister Jacques Rabemananjara who, zollowing a total silence of 9 years, declaxed
in Paris: "I am breaking the silence to demand the release of Monja Jaona."
'i'hese incidents reveal a malaise, the final result of which cannot be foreseen, but
' which is aggravated by... the wax between Iraq and Iran. "Ratsiraka has rotten
luck," a French minister told us. "He believed he would be able to save his regime
with Iraq's help, but he had not foz~eseen that Saddam Hussein would go to wax." At
the beginning of 1980, when the treasury and the reserves of the Central Bank were =
neaxly exhausted, the head of state had gone to Baghdad. He brought ba.ck an unhoped
for contract: an Iraqui promise to satisfy the essential petrol eum needs of -
_ Ma,dagascax at preferential prices and payable in the long term.
When the war broke out in the Gulf, Madagascar wnich imported 60 percent of its I
petroleum from Iraq found itself cut off . Factories were closed or slowed down. ~
Economic projects were shelved.
Libyan Promises
At that point, ministers and financial and trade experts stretched out a hand
throughout the world to find petroleum at a good price and on credit. Algeria, when
contacted, was not able to do very much: its own financial situation requires it -
to demand cash paymznt. On the free market, the Malagasy have been cffered a large
amount of petroleum at advantageous credit conditions, but at... $4-8 a barrel:
Libya made promises~ as usual: and, as usual, nothing came of them. And it was
not without some satisfaction that a high F`rench official told us: "I have never
heaxd so many ba,d things said about the Libyans as in Madagascax." Only Saudi
Arabia~ encouraged by the United States~ has condescended to help Didier Ratsiraka
by agreeing to deliver petroleum without immediate payment.
Coping _
The Western countries turned up their nases. The Malagasy file is apparently no
longer "bankable" : one only extends loans to the rich and Ma.da,gascar is far from
being that. "F`riendly" measures proved to be more haxassing than saving: in De-
cember 1980, a French ba.nk granted 10 million FMG [Malagasy francs] (the equivalent
- in CFA [African Financial Community] francs~ to pay the personr~el of cErtain em-
bassies who had been waiting for their salasy for 3 months.
- The socialist friends, on the other hand, gave only what they had: weapons. But
the Soviw~ Union has developed a very elaborate technique for the sa1 e of arms.
Deliveries axe divided, on a quasi-compulsory ba,sis, into three equal categories:
a first one made up of gifts, a second one sold "at a price for friends" and a
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third one sold at the so-called "international" price. Thus, for lack of petroleum,
Mada,gascar is overflowing with Kalashnikov rifles, tanks, Stalin organs and Mig 23's
(which will be piloted by Vietnamese~. This unprecedented and inexplicable,
- because no country is seriously thinking about invading the big island military
reinforcement finally used up all the finances. In certain busir~ess circles it ia
even wispered that the next coffee harvest has already been tr_aded for Soviet and
- North Korean weapons.
- Ammunition and new equipment continue to flood into the port. of Tcamasina (the
former Tamatave). These special supplies have priority on the trains connecting the
: Eastern coast with the capital. And in Antananaxivo, as in all the cities, there is
. a con+inuing shortage of very basic commodities. This is the fault, less of produc-
tion than of the distribution system. Even though it ~:roduces some 2 million tons
of paddy a yeax, Madagascas has a shortage of rice: dav and night, there are long
lines of people in frorit of the stores to buy i;he 400 gram per person ration of rice
(each Malagasy consumes between 1~5 and 166 kilograms of rice a yeax~. There is a
shortage of ineat, even thou~h the cattle population amounts to 6.4~ million hea.d
(1977 figure). In the villages, where the needs are different f'rom those in the
- cities, shortages are also becoming firmly established: few matches, few candles,
little salt all things which axe produced locally and, of course, no kerosine.
On the other side of the barrier, it is said more and more that "the dignitaries axe
- not suffering from any shortages," In Madagascar, like everywhere elGe, among ap-
paxatchiks one copes, one stocks up from a paxa11e1 system, thus taking awa5� from
the normal networIc of rice, oil, soap and salt supplies. And "one" builds up per-
sonal reserves. There was a time when this was called "economic sabotage." Today,
this economic malaise is aggravated by an undeniable social malaise. In the face
of the crisis, social ism has produced privileged classes.
Hence, undoubtedly, those outbursts of violence ana looting in Antananaxivo. Hence
' a1so, this demon of the revolt which on~e again haunts the peasants. Hence, perhaps,
this effort to equip militarily which~ in the case ot Madagascax, has no other jus-
tification than the defense of a regime.
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SURVEY OF BILATERAL COOPERATION WITH FRANCE
Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 13 Feb �1 p 369
[Article: "Mali--From 29 January to 3 February 3n Paris: Con clusions of the -
' Joint Commission on Franco-Malian Cooperation"]
~ [Text] The 21st session of the Joint Comm~ission on Franco-Malian Cooperatior_
was held in Paris from 29 January to 3 Febru~r} 1981 to work out the bilateral -
_ cooperation program for 1981. The Malian delega~tion was led by Profesaor Alioune
Blondin Beye, minieter of foreign affairs and international cooperation, seconded
- by Moulaye Mohamed Haidara, Mali's ambassador to France. The following points
on the agenda were conaidered:
;
--Education--France is to take on around 200 additional scholarship students,
~ representing a total sum of 10 million francs and financed in part by the Aid
I and Cooperation Fund and the rest by grants. The Malian scholarship students -
will be received in October at the start of the new academic year ia universi-
ties. In addition, France will take stQps to improve the quality of the French
language instruction in the basic course of study by training the people doing
; the training. -
--Health--France will renew its aid, particularly in order to provide medicine
j in fhe context of primary heal~h care. A mission i~ to go to Mali to study the
, health problems there and evaluate French cooperation in this area. Finally,
French aid will focus on facilities, especially by renovating the unit of the
- Bamako hospital where operations are performed.
--Culture--In this area aid will focus on finishing up the construction of the
National Museum of Mali. The astablishment of this museum had been decided on
at the time of Giscard d`Estaing's official trip in February 1977. Robert Galley,
_ French minister of cooperation, had laid the first stone in November 1979. The
Frer.ch Ministry of Cooperation will alsa focus on some technical assistance for
organizing the museum.
Regarding economic.development, overall investments of French aid for 19$1 are
on the level of 52 million French francs. The main efforts are the following:
--Development of cattle-raising in the Kaqes and Nara regions particularly by -
~e~ting up water supply sites in collaboration with Saudi Arabia9 the cost is
- 2 million francs. -
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--Restructuring the OACV (Operation Peanuts/Food Cr ops) with regard to peanut
production. An agency of ~ore limited scope will. be concerned with peanuts
for oil (ODIPAC jexpansion unknown]) ; its statutes are in the process of being
worked out. In addition, a company will be set up in the San region for canhirig
peanuts . _
--Aid for starting up the Mali-South 2 operation and in particular a feasibility
~tudy (with Central Fund for Economic Cooperation involvement) which will be
going on ~ntil May 1981.
--Restructuring the Malian Agricultural Products Office (OPAM) : French technical
assistance with a view to setting up a new enterprise. �
--Carrying on with the Mopti-Rice operation.
--Agricultural developmenr of Baguineda: France w311 no longer contribute assis-
tance with regard to developing the irrigated peririeter but will continue its _
cooperation ~rith the Mali Canned Foods Company (SOCAM) on the tomato puree
= factory. ~
--Support for ttie Niger Office: Central Fund involvement regarding the Costes
canal and the World Bank taking over modernizing the Of fice ; the total is 9
million francs.
--Extension of the Dire perimeter , and constructian of an irrigated perimeter
at Gao and three small dams in Dogon country.
--Aid for a study of possible utilization of cotton waste for a gas generator
; motor.
- --French aid for setting up the National Agriculture Bank of Mali : the CCCE
[Central Fund for Economic Cooperation] ~rill be involved in the company's author-
ized capital and the FAC [Aid and Cooperation Fund) will contribute technical ,
a~sistance.
--Finally, an agreement was signed for France to supply 5000 tons of co:'n under
the heading of food aid. _
In the area of industry and mining, France will support the BRGM [Geological and
Mineral Prospectiag Office] searches for gold and diamonds and the phosphate pro- _
~ect ef Tilemsi. Moreover, France will provide technical assistance to the
- ENERGIE DU MALI (EDM) company to repair the Dar es-Salaam plant. Regarding infra-
structures, French aid wti.l be provided for the constrLCtion of a bridge at Daba
and the acquisition of a 20-kW radio transmitter. A team w�ill also study the
problems related to the Timbuctu waterworks .
It should be noted that Alioune Blondin Beye, Malian minister of foreign affai-rs
and international cooperation, stated in Bamako on 3 February that he is "im- _
pressed by the good will shown by France," which, he added, "i~as chosen to respect
Mali`s two priorities, which are w~ter problems and issues related to overcoming
the land-locked nature of the territory" in the cooperation between the two
countries.
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NIGER
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Paris MARCHES TRnPICAUX ET r~ATTERRANEENS in French 20 Feb 81 p 429
_ [Report: "Kandadji Moneylenders Meet in Niamey from 16 to 20 February"]
[Text] The first meeting of the fund lenders for the Kandadji Dam, the most
important development project in Niger, opened on 16 February in Niamey under the -
chairmanship of Moussa Bako, the dam's high commissioner. ~
The meeting was attended by representatives of the Arab Bank for Economic Develop- '
ment in Africa (ABEDA), the Kuwait Development Fund, the Islamic Bank, the World
Bank,Canada, France, and the FRG.
The Kandadji Dam, which will be built on the Niger River, 180 km north of Niamey,
at a distance of 65 km from the Malian border, will make the irrigation of 140,000
- hectares of land possible. It will supply water to the communities along the Niger
valley and provide electric power to the western part of the country.
The dam, most of which will be earthen, will be 8 km long and 40 meters high.
According to the plans drawn up by the French Sofrelec company, it will cost about
10~ billion CFA in fixed 1979 CFA rates, while the development of 140,000 hectares of i_
irrigated land would require far more substantial funds.
- Wes~ Germ~n experts, however, consider the Kandadji project too expensive and believe ~
that it should be replaced by another project which would be better adapted to the
IP
_ country's possibilities. In this connection, during his visit to Niger last
January, Rainer Offergeld, FRG minister of economic cooperation, had already stated
= that he approved of the main purpose of the project but believed that a Iess ;
expensive alternative solution should be sought. France and the FRG were to finance
- the drafting of the technical plan for the dam.
Z'he meeting of the lending institut~ons is scheduled to end on 20 Febr.uary.
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NEW GOVERNMENT'S CHANGE OF POLICY SURPRISES OPPOSITION
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Paris JEUNE AFRIQUE in French 18 Feb 81 pp 26, 27
[Article by Sylviane Kamara: "First Steps Following Senghor"; passages enclosed
in slantlines printed in italics]
[Text] In the area of education partf.cular.ly, the policy of
President Diouf does not seem to be that of the former prime
minister.
/"De-Senghorization is beginning!"/ The 24-year-old student who spits out these -
- brave words is visibly pleased, /"Finally, Senegal is starting to move!"/ In-
deed, though it is at least inaccurate to speak of "desenghorization," Mr Abdou
Diouf, in the 45 days he has served as president, has put the accent on change.
~ The announcement by Prime Minister Habib Thiam that "representative" political
parties (J.A. No. 1049) wouid soon be legalized was one of the first signs, even
though it remains a modest step. In reality, however many parties are authorized,
Mr Thiam made clear, the government will make certain that /"stable ma~orities"/
are produced. In other words: a Socialist Party (PS) ma~ority and a minority _
opposition, itself divided into several parties. ~
But the real initiative, the real change, is in the States General on education,
which has been a rubber stamp. For the f irst time, a government has fundamentally
_ reconsidered a policy that it has been implementing for 10 years. Opened by
Habib Thiam on 27 January after having been announced since 1 January by Abdou
Diouf, the States General brought together 2,000 people for 4 days to have in- -
depth discussions on problems in education.
Participants, besidea the ministers concerned and all the syndicates, included
teachers, hereditary chiefs, the federation of parents of pupils, and the eco-
nomic and social council. Also included, and their presence attracted consider-
= able notice, were the Muslim and Christian religiotis leaders and the SUDES (Sole
Democratic Trade Union of Senegalese Teachers) which, since its creation in 1976,
has been particularly pugnacious. This is the syndicate that, in 1980, carried
out the strikes and boycotts that resulted in the suspension, discharge, and
transfer of several dozen of its militants, whose reinstatement was demanded by -
the States General.
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The People's School
The minister of national education, Abdel Kader Fall, set the tone for the meet-
irtgs in his introductory report, acknowledging that the present system is extra- _
verCed and poorly adapted to Senegal's sncio-cultural realities. Since DecembeY
1979, this is what most teachers had unsuc~essfully and unceasingly proclaimed,
calling for the upgrading of the profession, the improvement of working condi-
tions, and the /"establishment of a national commission on~educational reform,
with the participation of SUDES, primary and advanced pupils, parents, and all
~ parties concerned."/ It has taken a year of strikes, dismissals, and vigorous
police raids, for SUDES to get satisfaction.
/"Incredible,"/ exclaims a linguist with UIVESCO. /"Ten years ago, when we called
for such a measure, the leaders cried out in protest. / Corollary: suppression
- of the method known as CLAD (Dakar Applied Linguistics Center) developed by ex-
patriates to teach French as well as the Senegalese languages considered as for-
- eign languages. The bell is getting ready to toll for these expatriates, as the
States General have called for the gradual eliminat~on of technical assistance
/"which costs too much"/ withln S years at the secondary level and 10 years at
the university, the "decolonization" of which was fervenLly recoIIUnended.
Elimination, also gradually, of private schooling (112 Catholic institutions alone
represent more than 10 percent of all students) an~ "prestige schools." The
schools at issue here are probably the University for Mutants [translation un-
known, probably the "specially gifted"] and the School of the National Order of
the Lion, both located at Goree. The advisability of these schools in these
austere times was seriously questioned, The new Senegalese school, /"the peo-
ple's school, expressing the people's needs,"/ which will train handicapped youth
and integrate practical training into its /cursus/, will remain secular but--and
_ this is getting difficult to understand--also religious. Abdel Kader Fall con-
v firmed it: religious teaching will be introduced /"without restriction"/. ~o
would dare to oppose it? Does not SUDES maintain that it obtained an audience on
22 April 1980 with the prime minister of the time, Abdou Diouf thanks to the in-
tervention of the Kha~if General of the Mourides?
To successfully and totally recast the educational system requires money. If 30
percent of the budget puts only 30 percent of the children in school, the whole
budget would have to be allocated to educate them all, as called for by the States -
General. Four financing ideas have been advanced: creation of a fund sustained
by imposts levied on balls, dancing establishments, and other entertainment sites;
redistribution of budgetary allocations; help from international institutions,
along with the savings realized by eliminating the technical assistance which each
year costs Senegal 5.5 billion Fr CFA (111 million French francs) and France 7.3
billion.
F.eep to Specifics
That same determination to keep to specifics and live within one's means marked
the prime minister's speech before the assembly on 3 January. Mr Thiam, while
announcing the contlnuation of the recovery program, opened up new perspectives.
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Senegal is giving itself 4 years in which to reach a level of 8,000 new jobs per
year, compared to only a few hundred at present. Investments on the order of
- 100 billion Fr CFA per year are expected. These measures will be accompanied by
measures to protect local production and the development of exports, which only -
, bring in 2.9 billion Fr CFA in customs duties, compared to 52.7 for imports.
- Bank credit should go to the productive sectors. This has not been the case for -
the last 10 years, as it went primarily to finance real estate. In the agricul-
- tural sector, rural hydraulics and small community projects will have priority.
Th.ere will be a boost, too, for the fishing sector and for oil anc~ mineral re-
_ search. /"Exactly the opposite of what has been done up to now,"/ comments a _
' banking official. /"It was time to open our eyes, for we were only a few centi-
meters from the abyss."/
Sacred Union?
. Some people are asking pointed questions about this sudden lucidity. Thus Fara
N'Diaye, deputy secretary gen.eral of the Senegalese Democratic Party [notes]:
/"Abdou Diouf carried out a policy against the interests of the country for 10
years. It was one of two things: either he approved it, or he was acting against "
his will. In any case, we are left t~ idle speculation about his motives. Simi-
larly, if we are pleased with the res~:~~s obtained by the States General on educa- _
tion, we say that the president shawed himself to be weak in hastening to accept
reforms that he had always fought. He had to do them, but not so quickly, not so
_ precipitously."/
Al1 the same, had the government continued the academic, social, and economic
policies previously followed, an explosion was only a matter of time. Can the
opposition, or more precisely the PDS [Senegalese Democratic Party], reproach him
for trying to redress the balance by integrating into his program the demands of
both sides? -
/"They were caught short, actually. The government cut the ground from under them
by trying to show itself as more liberal and democratic than they,"/ asserts a PS
militant. /"The PDS never offers solutions, out of fear that someone will 'punc-
ture its ideas' as Abdoulaye Wade has said, but it is in everyone's interest to
close ranks around the new team, otherw~se...."/
So, [is it to be] a sacred union? Certainly not, for the opposition has not
- abandoned rhe hope of forming a united front. Simply, realistically, it is wait- -
ing to see, while remaining vigilant.
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- REC~IDATIONS OF EnITCATIONAL CONF'ERI~iCE RF~08TID
Paris MARCHES T80PI~AUX ET MIDITERRANE~iS in French 13 Feb 81 p 368 -
- [Text] The Statea General on Dducation, which was just held at the end of January -
in Dakar, brought tog~ether in a free debate~ with no restrictione or~ participation
- or apeakinS time, over 2,000 people representing a11 the mini.stries involved in
problems ooncern.ing education~ training aad youth, the teacherst vniona, including
the SIJDES [Sole Democra,tic Trade IIninn of Senegalese Teachers] (a union opposed to
the 5es~egalese Government's current education policy~ aad parenta of pupilst or~.�;-
zations. A mucY~noted occurrence pointed out by the AFP [French Fress Ag~ency]:
- Moslem and Chriatian religious leaders took part in the debates,
- The docwnents that were approved axe an indication of a marked determination to
make Senegalese achc~ols more "people-oriented and democratic" by adapting them to
"national reali.ties," Thus the Statee General 2iave decided to promote the national
la~aguag,ea of Senegal. in the schoo].s aud in the official life of the country.
A gradua7. reduction in foreign technical assistance and later its elimi.nation in the
field of secondars education within a per3od of 5 years aad r+ithin 10 years time at
. the university was also requested,
The States GeneY'a.i. i~ve rrcouunenaeci ~'t; e~~c~? onizati~.i the w.ziaersity ~ci- ~
entific reseaxch," the gradual elimination of private education, the syatematization
of religious edncation in elementary schools the creation of single minietry ~
responsible for vocational training and education and the creation of regulax chan- ~I
nela leading to potential ~oba, i
Elimination of the audio-visual method of teaching French, which ha,s been in uee for
ovex 10 years, was proposed, The institutionalization of the States General, which
would be held every 4 Ye~, wa$ reaommended as well as the creation of a nationa].
commi~sion to atuc~y and follow up on educational problems. And lastly a reevaluation
of the f~nction of education wa.s requested, -
On the fringes of the debate, a motion ca,lling on the g~overnment to rescind the
suspenaion measures, dismissals or chauges that affect SUDES membera ~nd requesting
_ that union to postpone its promise to strike, plaaned for February, was voted on
~ by the States General.
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~ SENEGAL
BRIEFS
INTERPROFESSIONAL CONVENTION--Sixty of the $3 articles of the draft national inter-
professional collective convention submitted in 1978 by th e National Conf ederation
of Senegalese Workers (CNTS) have already been adopted during the negotiations
~ between employees and employers, on the one hand, and the government, on the other, _
which were resumed in March 1980 (see MTM 30 January p 248). This collective con-
vention which, if enacted, would annul any previous ones, specifically calls for
raising the ceiling of the seniority bonus from 15 to 25 percent; layoff compen-
sation, currently set at 20 percent of the salary paid over the first 5 years of -
employment, 25 percent of th e salary paid fram the 6th to the lOth year, and 30 per-
cent after that, would be respectively raised to 25, 30 and 40 percent; an increase
in the death compensation which would correapond, for the lst to the ~th year of
work at an enterpriae to a 2-month salary, a 3-month salary for the 6th to lOth year,
and 4 months after 10 years would be increased; the overtime rate would be increased
as well. [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 20 Feb 81 p
424] 5157
DAKAR FREE ZONE--The revivifying of the Dakar free industrial zone within the frame-
work of the government's policy of industrial development was mentioned on 10 -
February by Abdou Diouf, head of the state of Senegal, at the 10 February Council
- of Minister's meeting. He called for th e fast formulation of legislation and regu-
lations for the development of activities in this zone. Furthermore, discussing the -
struggle a~ainst customs fraud, the president called for the adoption of proper regu-
lations which would increase the effectiveneQs of the competent services. He called
~or a meeting to be called within the most appropriate time of the national com-
- mittee and of the regional committees of the struggle against fraud. [Text] [Paris
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FORESTRY PROJECTS--The International Development Association (IDA), a branch of the
World Bank which offers easier terms, granted to Senegal a loan of 7.1 million SDR
~pecial 1}rawing Rights7 ($9.3 million) on 12 February, for a forestry project whose
purpose is to meet the growing demand for heating wood and forestry products in Dakar
~ and the heavily populated rural axeas of the peanut cultivation basin. /Text]
LParis MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 20 Feb 81 M l~2l~7 51~7
WADB LOAN--On 4 February Louis Alexandrenne, Senegal minister of plan and cooperatinn,
signed in Lome a loan agreement with Pierre-Claver Damiba, president of th e West
African Development Bank (WADB). ~The agreement stipulates that the WADB will grant
Senegal a loan totaling 661 million CFA using SenegalesE resources as collateral, for
_ the financing of the water damming project in Pout Nord. WADB investments in the
country total 3 billion 402 million CF'A francs for the financ.ing of 7 project, one of
which is rpgional. [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French
_ 20 Feb 81 p 425] 5157
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_ FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT MEASURES--At the 9 February meeting of the Council of Minis-
ters, Senegalese Prime Minister Habib Thiam emphasized the need to continue the
action undertaken to ensure strict management of public finances and issued ingtruc- -
_ tions. He also gave instructions for the development of legislation aimed at pro-
moting small and medium-size enterpr.-i~es ~aithin rhe framework of the effort to
relaunch investments. Also in connection with the economic and financial recovery
plan, Habib Thiam asked the minister of cammerce to work to reduce the deficit in
the trade bal_ance. Finally, the head of the government approvel the measures
recommended by the minister of rural devel~pment to reconstitute the amount of _
seed on hand. [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 27 Feb
- 81 p 484] 11,464
_ FRENCH SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION-Following French Secretary of State for Scientific _
Hesearch Pierre Aigra~n's viait to Dakar from 29 to 31 .'anuary, a communique has
been issued announcing a soon-to-be-eatablished Franco-Senegalese acientific prize
- deaigned to encourage researchers of all na.tionalities to solve the problems tha.t
- exist in the Slidan-Sahel region. The communique leads us to prediat a strengtYien-
i.ng of the bonds of Franco-Senegaleee cooperation in the fields of programming,
- agricultural and agro-industrial research, renewable sources of energy, medical and
ph~.rmaceutical research, remote detection d~vices and data processing~ 3'hey also
plan to send Senegalese trainees to France and French missione to Senegal, Mr
_ Aigra.in said that Senegalese Prime Minister Habi~b Thiam had informed him as to _
Senegal's needs in the field of refri8^era.tion~ He said that he shaxed Mr Thiam's -
point of view on the kind of priority to be granted research and training in this ~
field. Sene~aleae Secretary of State for Scientific Reseaxch Jacques Kiouf sa.id
tha.t the two conntries were in agTeement on granting ma~or importance to the solu- -
tion of energ,y problemsa [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANff~+1S in
~rench 13 Feb 81 p 368] 11466
- ITALIAN FOOD AID--Because of the drought, in keeping with an agreement signed at
the end of January in Dakar, Italy will supply food aid amounting to 3,312 tons of
wheat flour and 5,000 tons of grain. [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITER-
_ RANEENS in French 27 Feb 81 p 484] 11,464 _
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- BRIEFS ~
COCONUT PALM PROJECT--According to the Tan2ania~ minister of agriculture a program -
for the planting of coconut trees, initiated in January 1980 with the assistance
of the FRG and the IDA (International Development Agency, branch of the World Bank),
is progressing normally. Six months after its initiation 30,000 hybrid plants were
ready to be transplanted in Mafia, Zanzibar, Bagamoyo and Tanga nurseries. Never- _
theless, the first coconuts to be harvested from such hybrid coconut trees cannot be
- marketed before a four-year period. [Text] [Faris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANNEENS
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FINANCE, RURAL AID, NEW GOVERNMEHT'S PRIORITIES
Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 20 Feb 81 p 428 ~
[Text] Cleaning up the finances, improving the administration's image and coming
to the aid of the rural population: right now these are the three priorities of
the military government tha.t took power last November 25 in Upper Volta. As for
other problems, especially the one about future tnstitutional structures, they
seem to have been relegRted to the background.
The new govemment is confronted with a difficult economic and financial situa-
- tion (see MTM, Feb 6, p 311) and in order to remedy it, it has decided to reduce
the current year.`s budget by reducing in particular. non-priority government
_ spending, and by eliminating ceratin administrative positions. From some 46
billion CFA francs, the 1981 budget ha.s lowered to 40.5 billion, a total more ~
consistent with Upper Volta's actual situation.
Stricter controls will be put into effect in ordEr to ensure returns from taxes,
duties and tariffs. .An investigative and auditing committee is scrutinizing the
accounts of government organizations and ministries, while the former Upper
Voltan officials are detained at Ouagadougou or Bobo~Dioulasso waiting to be
eventua.lly hauled into court.
The government has also open~ed communicarions wir.h the labor unions, that had
precipitated the fall of the governm2nt of ~resident Aboubacar Sangoule Lamizana
last November, as they had already done with the government of President Yameogo
- in 1966. By receiving the representatives of the leading unions at the end of
January, Head of State~.Colonel Saye Zerbo emphasized the urgent need for modera-
tion in view of the state of the national ec~nomy, while assuring them that union -
freedoms will continue to be guaranteed.
Although this meeting has made it possible to ~~xtend the union truce, it has not
really changed the situation which remains potentially tense. It is not certain
whether the emphasis put by Upper Volta's Head of State on the "obligation" of
the unions toward thP national community touched them, since they are more
oriented toward demands than toward cooperation with the State, the principal -
employer in Upper Volta. .
The concern about curtailing the demands of the urban sector is on a par with
the government`s desire to improve the living conditions of the rural population.
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Thus, notes th~ AFP, they are very much counting on the mission of the World
_ Bank, expected in Ouagadougou in the near future, for obtaining the necessary
funds to begin sever al agricultural development projects.
However, what's called for are not isolated actions, but a protracted effort
which, in order to have good results, requires administrative and governmental
stability. With these actualities in Upper Volta for a backdrop, therefore,
the government envisages the creation of "truly democratic" institutions, for
example, a national consultative council. At the end of January,.in an inter-
view granted to the national press, Colonel Zerbo declared: "Perhaps it is an
- idea that we will have to examine when the need for it has been felt."
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- UPPER VOLTA
BRIEFS ~
COOPERATION WITH FRG--As reported by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Coopera-
tion, on Janua.ry 29 the Council of Ministers of Upper Volta adopted a plan
agraeing to financial cooperation with the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG).
By virtue of this arrangement, the FRG agrees to contribute to the asphalting
- of the Banfora Road, the boundary with the Ivory Coast, for a sum of 32 million
Deutsche ma.rks. [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French
20 Feb 81 p 428] 9?76
P~"LOT PERIMETER--On January 29 the Council of Ministers of Upper Volta made a
close study of the problem of administering the pilot perimeter of Bagre (a -
development of 5,000 r,ectares). It has indicated its agreement to entrust the
development, staffing, and administration of the perimeter for a period of 3 -
years to the Grenoble Company of Hydro-electric Studies and Development
(Sogreah). The sum of these contributions amounts to 84.45 million CFA, repre-
senting Upper Volta's share for executing the project. The total cost of the
project is 590 million CFA. [Text] [Paris MARCHES ~ROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS
in French 20 Feb 81 p 428] 9776
AIR VOLTA--On January 29 the Council of Ministers of Upper Volta studied the
difficult financial situation of the national firm Air Volta. This business was -
created in 1966 with capital of 35 million CFA. Now the firm reports a deficit _
of 106 million CFA as a result of various factors, in particular the decision
by officials that the firm develop certain domestic lines and take advantage of
the pilgrimages to Mecca in 1978 and 1979. In order to get out of this mess, the
Council has had to examine recovery measures recommended by the company's Board
of Directors since the end of August 1980 and has kept the possibility of a
subsidy in mind until after investigating the past administration. Even more
radical measures might be envisioned. The analysis of this problem has led the
_ Council to raise the more general problem of the administration of public firms
and establishments. From this analysis, the absolute necessity of reforming
this administration has become evident, which should take into account certain
national facts. [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANE~rIS in French
20 Feb 81 p 428] 9776 -
RADIO AGREEMENTS--The Council of Ministers of Upper Volta adopted on January 14
two bills providing for the installation of headquarters buildings between the
Republic of Upper Volta and the Regional Center of Ouagadougou on the one hand,
and the Union of African National Radio-Television Union (URTNA) on the other,
on behalf of the Interafrican Rural Radio Studies Center of Ouagadougou (CIERO).
[Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 20 Feb 81 p 428]
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ZAIRE
- ALLOTI~NT OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE IlETAILED
Paris I~ARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 30 Jan 81 p 260 -
[Article: "The Methods of Allocating Allotments of Foreign Exchange to Importers"]
[Text] Via a letter dated 29 July 1980, the Bank of Zaire had notified concerned
banks of the allocation of foreign exchange allotments for the use of inporters doing
business in Zaire, allotments meant to insure the country's supply of indispensable
- commodities. These allotments, totalling 50 mill ion dollars, were to be made -
available in three segments, 20 million, 15 million and 15 million (c.f. MARCHES
TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS, 22 August 1980, p 2090).
- The first of these allotments (20 million) waa allocated and distributed in August
1980, and the Bank of Zaire proceeded last December to make the second segment
available, 15 million dollars. The methods by which this can be tapped follow
below, as sp ecified in a Belgolaise memorandum:
1) Zairian banks, on the condition that before 31 Decemb er 1980 they had built up -
at least 50 percent of the funds in zaires by taking them out of the credit accounts
of the importers who are to use the foreign exchange, can obtain transfer of the
foreign exchange needed to cover payments up to a limit of the sum in dollars (ox
_ tP~e equivalent in another foreign currency) of ea~h allotment.
2) The companies using the foreign exchange must present their respective banks
with "Type 1 import declarations" up to the limit of the allotted swns and which
show the CIF vaAUe of the goods. If the permit requests are filled out and presented
by importers in ac~ordance with the relevant instructions, the banks are authorized -
to go ahead and register them without preliminary certif ication by the Bank of Zaire,
unless the request relates to import by air transp ort, in which case preliminary
certification by the Bank of Zaire is necessary.
3) Zairian banks can only accept "Type 1's" submittedfor importing goods meant for
industrial use or company facilities. This excludes any good meant for resale.
4) "Type 1" permits including import requests for iron and steel or tire-related
goods must be accompanied by an authorization issued by the a~propriate company in
Kinshasa, SOSIDER [Iron and Steel Company] or Goodyear.
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5) "Type 1's" must be submitted and validated by Zaic~an banks before 31 January
1981. After that deadline no more permi~heeBanktof.cZaire~accepted by a registered
bank except by express authorization of
6) Payment for goods to be imported under this allotment can be effected:
- --either by documentary letter of credit not covering exchange ercenti3is ountaoff
payable either "on embarkation, in return for. the mandated 6 p _
the FOE price, or at a time at least 90cd~s~g f~N:Bthpossible expenseseandicommn.ission
seller being able to recover financing )
f ees connected with confirming letters of credit are payable by sellers.); or
--by documentary remittance; or
--by direct transfer.
7) Zairian banks are already authorized~ t~~~z~he requestlbetpresented1before'the
they have validated but on the conditi n
valid time limit "for importinor a certificateiestablishingrthat~deliveryohasent
constituting proof of loading
started to be carried out. ~
Since no exceptions are anticipated, the relevant "Type 1's" will simply becomP -
invalid if extension requests are not accompanied by one of the above documents.
In accordance with the general before loadinglwhichsmustebe donerbydthe Zairian -
context are subj ect to inspection
Control Off ice (OZAC). Supply contracts must make provision for this specification
and no departure from this requirement will be allowed.
COPYRIGAT: Rene Moreux et Cie 1981
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ZAIRE
BRIEFS
SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION WITH SOUTH KOREA--On 12 Januaxy Presi dent Mobutu Sese Seko
received the South Korean minister of science and technology. At the end of their
- meeting the South Korean minister stated tha.t the exchange of trainees and researchers
and r_he organization of ~oint research could be forthcoming in the framework of
scientif ic cooperation between the two countries. [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX
ET MEDITERRANE~IdS in French 30 Jan 81 p 260] 9631
BUTA-ZENGA AIRPORT--Officially inaugurated last November, Zaire's Buta-Zenga airport
is open to shorL-range and medium-range aircraft. It has a 2100--meter l~ng runway
and is equipped with runway lights and radio beacons. [Text] [Paris MARCHES
TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 6 Feb 81 p 318~ 9631
_ USSR hT FIKIN IN 1981--The Soviet Union wi11 participate in the upcoming Kinshasa
- Internatiox~al Fair [FIKIN] this year. That is what was indicated recently by the
USSR's ambassador in Kinshasa, who also staten that the USSR's importa of Zairian
are and irapical wood in 1980 had tripled in comparison to 1979 and amounted to
around 10 million dollars. We would also point out that, in the context of trade
relations, the Zairian Executive Council has negotiated the import of Lada and Niva
brand vehicles. In the framework of the Joint Commission a maritime agreement was
signed in 1980 in Kinshasa and a meeting in Moscow of the two parties is planned
f or this current year. He also mentioned the inauguration in 1979 of Aerof lot's
air link between Kinshasa and Moscow; the USSR would like to see Air Zaire also
serve that route in the future. [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS
in French 6 Feb 81 p 318] 9631
YUGOSLAVIA: AGRICULTURAL PROJEGTS--A Yugoslav agricultural mission led by Stanislav
Stanisevljenic, an engineEr and direccor-delegate general of the Beograd-TKD
Agricultural-Industrial Complex, c-..ae to Kinshasa at the end of 1980 in order to
examine with Zairian author ities the possibil~~y of accomplishing projects accepted
- at the second session of the Principal Zairian-Yugoslav Joint Comznission which had
taken place earlier in Belgrade. These projects involve farming and processing of
f ood products--corn, soybeans, etc.--in the capital's breen belt as well as in the
Bas-Zaire region. [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET PLDITERRANEENS in French 6
Feb 81 p 318] 9631
ROMANIAN WOOD INDUSTRY DELEGATION--A Romanian delegation led by Theodor Ceause.scu,
adviser to the minister of forestry economy and construction materials, came to
~ Kinshasa .for a stay at the end of 1980. Together with Zairian authorities the
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delegation examined tY~e conditions for building an industrial complex for developing
the Zairian wood industry. This was by way of implementing the reso?utions decided
an by the fourth session of the Zairian-Romanian Joint Commissian in March 1980 in
$ucttarest. [Text] [Paris MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 6 Feb 81.
p 318 ] 9631
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z~rA
BRIEFS
IMF DELEGATION'S AR~IVAL--A delegation of four representative of the International
Monetary Fund (IME) arrived in Lusaka on 16 February for discussions with officials
from the ministry of finance concerning a loan request for $550 million filed by
Zambia. Las year the IMF and the Zambian of�icials held several meeting~ on this -
subject. They were interrupted in order to allow Kebby Musokotwane, minister of
finance, to submit the budget to parliament (see MTM of 13 February 1981, p 3�i5). -
[Text] (Paris MARCHE S TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 20 Feb 81 p 439] 5157
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