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THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER N°1183 - 03/06/2006
POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
American diplomat get upset
The United States Ambassador to Eritrea, Scott H. DeLisi, did not appreciate President Issayas Afeworki’s speech on 24 May, at the Asmara stadium, to an audience that included the diplomatic corps as well as a large gathering of Eritreans.

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER N°1183 - 03/06/2006
WHO'S WHO Solomon Bekele
Since the Alliance for Freedom and Democracy (AFD) was created by several Ethiopian opposition groups, the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (CUDP) has been in a state of deep melancholy.

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER N°1183 - 03/06/2006
APPOINTMENTS & MISSIONS
The former Speaker of the Ethiopian Parliament, Dawit Yohannes, has just presented his credentials as Ambassador to the United Nations in New York.

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER N°1183 - 03/06/2006
APPOINTMENTS & MISSIONS
Maged Maher Abdel-Rahman, a former counsellor to the Africa bureau of the Egyptian ministry for foreign affairs has just been transferred to Addis Ababa.

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER N°1183 - 03/06/2006
APPOINTMENTS & MISSIONS
Bernard Omach Obola, the commandant of the Junior Command and Staff College of the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) has recently been promoted to the rank of colonel.

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER N°1182 - 27/05/2006
DIPLOMACY
Trade delegation going to Italy
The Ethiopian Minister of Industry and Trade, Girma Biru, and the head of the Ethiopian Investment Authority (EIA), Abdi Wolde Meskel, are to go to Italy at the end of may to speak at two conferences on promoting investment in their country, organised by the Italian employers’ association, Assafrica & Mediterraneo.

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER N°1182 - 27/05/2006
POLITICS & POWER
A hastily formed Alliance
The meeting of Ethiopian opposition groups in Utrecht (Netherlands) from 19 to 22 May resulted in the rushed creation of an Alliance for Freedom and Democracy (AFD).

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER N°1182 - 27/05/2006
POLITICS & POWER
Addis wants its Nile Watter
The ten Member States of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI, comprising the countries which the Nile flows through) have managed to agree on the majority of the key issues in order to replace the agreement dating from colonial times which gave Egypt a dominant control over the waters of the Nile.