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From: barnhart@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Mr. Aaron Barnhart)
Subject: IPS:FINANCE: Kenya, Uganda get new credits
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:00:10 GMT
Organization: Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.

Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all rights reserved.  Permission to re-
print within 7 days of original date only with permission from 'newsdesk'.

Title: FINANCE: Kenya, Uganda get new credits


washington, dec 17 (ips) -- the world bank announced thursday that
its soft-loan affiliate, the international development association
(ida), has approved new credits for kenya and uganda.

kenya will receive a 19.4-million-dollar credit to reform the
country's agricultural sector by encouraging private investment
and streamlining agricultural cooperatives, the bank said.

it was the second credit for kenya announced by the bank in the
past week. last week, the bank awarded a 23.3-million-dollar
credit to help the government sell off or reform some parastatal
enterprises.

uganda will receive 25 million dollars to help its government
carry out an agricultural research and training project involving
the national agricultural research organisation (naro) and the
agricultural faculties of makerere university.

the new credit for kenya comes less than two weeks before the
first multi-party elections there since independence.

u.s. election observers which have recently visited kenya have
charged that the preparation for the voting has been deeply
flawed, and one group invited by the government of president
daniel arap moi to monitor the poll, the international republican
institute (iri), has not yet decided whether to accept the
invitation.

western donors to kenya announced in nov. 1991, at a world bank-
chaired meeting in paris that they would not offer any new loans
or aids to kenya until moi implemented far-reaching economic and
political reforms.

the world bank, however, never committed itself to similar
action, according to bank officials.

until the announcements this week and last week, however, the
bank had not provided any new credits to kenya since february, and
it is reported to be considering canceling a 35-million-dollar
agricultural sector credit.

some human rights groups here have denounced the timing of the
two credits because of their proximity to the election. they say
it may help moi argue that western nations are preparing to end
the aid boycott against kenya and that the credits are a vote of
confidence in his leadership. (end/ips/jl/yjc/92)
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From: f54oguocha@edison.usask.ca
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: AFRICAN SOCCER: SOME CLUB NEWS
Date: 24 DEC 92 17:40:13 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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Description: African Club News

I don't have any results of the semifinals in the three African Cups, but I 
konw this:

Africa Sports defeated Vital'O 5-1 on aggregae in AC2.

Widad AC Casablanca won 2-0 at home to Al Hilal of Sudan in AC1.

You already know that Shooting Stars won 3-0 at home (Ibadan) to 
Nakivubo Villa Sports in AC3 and thus became the first club to win
the CAF cup.

Happy Christmas and New Year

Oguocha

Source: Kent Hedlundh
        Dept. of Computer Science
        University of Umea
        S-90187 Umea
        Sweden
From: Jim Rosenfield <jnr@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Date: 28 Dec 92 23:37 PST
Subject: News Stories on Hunger - 12/28/92
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1471700316:000:2400
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!jnr    Dec 28 23:37:00 1992


/* Written 11:35 pm  Dec 28, 1992 by jnr in igc:hunger.general */
/* ---------- "News Stories on Hunger - 12/28/92" ---------- */

Newswire Stories re: Hunger                       12/28/92

The following file contains stories gathered since 12/25 from 
Associated Press, United Press International, Washington Post and Reuters. 
(Permission has been obtained from UPI and AP, and is pending in the
case of Reuters and WP).   

If these stories are useful to you please let me know by posting
a response to this topic or by e-mail.

The stories are contained in the first response to this topic in 
full-text form (166kB) in the following order:

Svc  Date   Headline
---  -----  ----------------------------------------------------------
WP   12/27  Mexico City Chases An Unlikely Dream
RTw  12/27  SOMALI WARLORDS AGREE TO DISMANTLE ``GREEN LINE''
APn  12/27  Afghanistan-UN
RTw  12/27  TWO SOMALI GUNMEN KILLED IN MOGADISHU CLASH
WP   12/27  War-Ravaged Mozambique: A Case Study of Famine Averted
WP   12/27  Searching for the Lessons of Somalia; Defining Humanitarian 
WP   12/27  Memoirs of a World Cop: Balancing Justice and Catharsis 
WP   12/27  UNICEF Children, Abroad and at Home
RTw  12/28  *START* HANGS IN BALANCE AT EAGLEBURGER-KOZYREV TALKS 
RTf  12/28  IMF, World Bank face world in economic turmoil
RTw  12/28  IRAQI HEALTHCARE,ONCE SOPHISTICATED,SUFFERS FROM SANCTIONS
APn  12/28  Somalia-Belet Huen
APn  12/26  Madagascar-Cheating Famine
RTw  12/26  PROTEST IN KIEV AS BREAD PRICE QUADRUPLES
APn  12/26  Food Labels
RTw  12/26  SOMALIA ANTI-FAMINE FORCE HEADS FOR FINAL FRONTIERS
UPn  12/26  U.S. troops fire on truck, move deeper into Somalia
WP   12/26  In Troubled Somalia, U.S. Troops Learn The Limits of Charity
APn  12/26  Food Stamps for Aliens?
RTw  12/25  HOMELESS HOLD CHRISTMAS PARTY IN LUXURY PARIS HOTEL
APn  12/25  Somalia-Aid Worker
WP   12/26  Improving Trade With Russia Bolsters Cuba's Outlook
APn  12/26  World Symposium '93
WP   12/26  In Far Northeast India, Mountain Tribes Meet the World
RTw  12/25  KISSINGER SAYS U.S., FRANCE SHOULD NOT DOMINATE RELIEF
RTw  12/25  MARINES SPEND CHRISTMAS IN SOMALIA FERRYING FOOD
RTw  12/25  MARINES RESCUE JOURNALISTS FROM SOMALI GUNMEN
RTw  12/25  TROOPS SECURE TOWN OF HODDUR, CLEAR MINES
APn  12/24  Charity Decline
APn  12/25  Somalia-Camp of Hope
RTw  12/24  AID FORCE SET TO ENTER SOMALI TOWN ``THAT LOOTED ITSELF"
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: KENYA, Economic collapse predicted.
From: Chowning@acuvax.acu.edu (Richard Chowning)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:18:18 GMT
Organization: Bible


>There is a real raw deal that the Kenyan elections are getting in the 
>News Media with the current focus in Somalia. Little seems to filter 
>out here even when there have been clashes in towns with loss of life
>and several injuries.  The problem is that once it makes the head line 
>news, it may be too late! 



>>
>>The BBC did not expand on this later in the news hour, but flooding the
>>market with one third of a billion dollars in shilngs could have serious
>>implications.
>>


>Ask the people in Nairobi and they will tell you that they are feeling the 
>effects already. Prices of commodities and services are way up and the 
>ordinary civil servant (a typical town dweller) can hardly make their 
>ends meet if they are no doing other things (what has come to be 
>known as "jua kali") on the side. Indeed, jua kali now refers to such 
>activities totally unrelated to one's job but income generating all 
>the same. For those that appreciate the impact of these, the predictions 
>they give are of dire consequences to come.

>Matunda Nyanchama
==================================================================
Chelagoi            alias             Richard Chowning
                                      
chowning@acuvax.acu.edu               African Mission Fellowship
chowning@acuvax.bitnet                Abilene Christian University
rchowning@igc.org                     Abilene, Texas  USA	
==================================================================
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: mukasa@panix.com (Michael K Mukasa)
Subject: Re: WC 94 African results and tables
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:50:22 GMT
Organization: Panix, NYC

In <1992Dec22.180523.25288@pony.Ingres.COM> cmorris@Ingres.COM (Colin Morris) writes:

>In article <1992Dec22.124502@iti.gov.sg> harin@iti.gov.sg writes:
>>
>>|> 20 Dec   Guinea      -   Kenya 
>>
>>This group still continues to baffle me. Is it Guinea that has pulled out or
>>is it Mali? I have it from reliable sources (BBC World Service) that Guinea
>>didn't show up for its first game aginst Mali and Mali were awarded a 3-0 win.
>>Currently, it looks like everyone has pulled out except for Kenya, thus
>>leaving Kenya to proceed to the next round. Anyone with reliable info
>>on what's going on in this group?
>>
>"World Soccer" has it the other way round:- ie that Mali forfeited the
>game. Also, they now state that Mali has withdrawn from the
>competition turning the "forfeited" game into a "void forfeited game"!
>According to my local paper, Guinea vs Kenya was played on Sunday,
>resulting in a 4-0 win for Guinea. Given that Gambia also withdrew
>from this group, Guinea and Kenya are effectively playing a two-leg
>game to decide the qualifier for the next round.

>On the other hand, there are various other mistakes in the "World
>Soccer" listing of results, so confirmation of their view of the
>situation would be welcome.

>--
>Colin Morris    Ingres, an ASK Group company     cmorris@ws2s.ingres.com

>"conservatives don't know how to conserve anything except their own
>privileges and wealth"
From: f54oguocha@edison.usask.ca
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: RE: Money matters in Mali, Niger,Togo, etc
Date: 29 DEC 92 19:09:22 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
NNTP-Posting-Host: edison.usask.ca

In a previous article, matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Brett McInnes) wrote:
> 
>I understand that several countries in West Africa use a common currency
>related to the French franc. Can anyone explain to me how that works? Do
>all these countries actually use the same banknotes, coins etc? If so,
>what happens when inflation rates, etc, differ from country to country?
>How is this system related to the one used in Gabon, Cameroon, etc?

hi,
i'm not an expert on monetary systems but i happen to have little idea
about some of the questions you raised. actually, all the french-speaking
west and central african countries operate a monetary system remotely
controlled by france. in west africa(including Cameroon) the currency is
called the CFA franc. the value of CFA franc in each country is a function
of the country's economy but most of the time, france determines what
value CFA franc assumes in each franco-phone country. usually, she tries to
keep the value of CFA franc at par in all these countries. You see, france has
a method of determining when to devalue the CFA franc used in Togo or
Benin republic or Cameroon. Sometimes the system runs into trouble in that
some countries may want their CFA franc devalued in order to help their
governments pay workers's salaries and wages but France may hold another
view. Well, as you would expect, France always has an upper hand. France
does not want to lose hold of her former colonies and so she tries as
much as possible to inject some new blood into these economies at critical
times. if you are a regular reader of the "West Africa" magazine (published in
London) or the "Newswatch" magazine (published in Lagos, Nigeria) you would
have seen that CFA franc is often quoted without any reference to any particular
franco-phone country. it is only the people in the sub-region that can tell
you when the CFA issued by the central bank of Cameroon is stronger than that
issued by the central bank of Benin republic. as i said before, i'm not an
expert on this matter and i may be wrong in some of my deductions. i'm just
writing on my working knowledge of how CFA franc is used within west and
central African countries.
oguocha


Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: lucio@phyrql.Alt.ZA (Lucio de Re)
Subject: Re: Dangerous Statements ....:
Followup-To: alt.flame
Reply-To: lucio@proxima.Alt.ZA
Organization: MegaByte Digital Communications
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 07:00:15 GMT

kautaj@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (kauta) writes:

>The situation in SA *is* in blak-and-white. No shades of grey! Nothing can be
>more counter-productive and less likely to succeed than to try to potray it 
>otherwise.  [ ... ]

I'm sure a couple of million coloureds, Indians, Malay and Chinese would
disagree with such a simplistic picture!

> [ ... ] . This blak-on-blak violence is pure nonsese! The type of propaganda
>propagated by folx like you and Fidonet. See what I fished up today from AP:

I wonder still why you insist on venting your anger (hate?) on those
few of us who actually are actively pursuing a liberal political agenda?
Do you expect us to go out there and shoot Eugene Terre-blanche, Andries
Treurnicht and FW de Klerk, or are you trying to persuade us that most
blak(sic)s in this country feel the way you do about us, so that we'd
better gather our possession and move to Zimbabwe where skin colour
seems to be less significant and our skills may be better appreciated?

Why don't you either start contributing to improvements here, instead
of shooting your mouth off to prove (why?) that white south africans
are all, without exception, inherently evil or SHUT UP.

As I have stated earlier, I try to curb my prejudices and attempt to
behave and speak objectively.  You can merely rant and rave, just like
a Christian or Moslem Fundamentalist and for your type, independent
of colour I have presently only disdain; later, we'll see...

And as for your latest, rather inappropriate posting about FW de Klerk,
I'm less than amazed that the obvious conclusion that _something_ is
in fact being done to stop the SADF interfering in politics seems to
have escaped your phenomenally analytical mind.

Rave on, Kauta!  Maybe when you eventually have something useful to
contribute you'll find that nobody's listening (I'm sure there's an
equivalent african story to the western cautionary tale of the boy
who cried wolf).

With disrespect (followups to alt.flame).
-- 
Lucio de Re (lucio@phyrql.Alt.ZA)
The supernatural does not exist, but it gives me the creeps...
From: osele@acsu.buffalo.edu (itiakorit j osele)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: IPS:ZIMBABWE: FILM CENSORSHIP, NO SEX PLEASE WE'RE ZIMBABWEAN
Date: 23 Dec 92 18:23:42 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <GILFORD.92Dec14135827@lexus.vuse.vanderbilt.edu> gilford@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Gilford T. Hapanyengwi) writes:
>In article <1992Dec14.132257.15625@sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
>
>   In article <Bz6sxo.2tp@ddsw1.mcs.com> barnhart@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Mr. Aaron Barnhart) writes:
>
>   >for example, argues bruce waters, critically-acclaimed films
>   >by african-american directors such as 'boyz in the hood' and 'new
>   >jack city' were rejected here this year.
>
>   Good for Zimbabwe, say I.
>
>   It is the values and attitudes portrayed in films such as these, and
>   their mindless glorification by the sickos in the mass media, that
>   have made the African-Americans one of the most oppressed black people
>   on earth.  Any nation that wants to keep this filth well away from
>   its cinemas, and the hearts and minds of its young people, is to be
>   applauded.
>
>********************************************************
>
>I beg to differ with you on this one.  According to my own evaluation
>a movie like Boyz in the Hood is a "good" potrayal of the life in the
>gettoh.  The problem with the American movies which are approved for
>viewing in Zimbabwe is that they are too steriotypical at least the
>ones which involve the minorities in the United States.  Personally if
>a movie like Boyz in the Hood is censored in Zimbabwe I do not see why
>a movie like Tarzan should not be and let alone "The Rambo Series".  
>	One wonders which was more violent "Boyz in the Hood" or the
>"LA Riots".  Put in other words if the LA riots are the truth what
>makes "Boyz in the Hood" censorship material.
>
>Ndiyoyo,

The difference is clear, one in a way celebrates violence perpetrated by
the other. It is one thing to watch LA riots, but it is another to watch
a movie of violence as a form of entertainment - this is one of the primary
objectives of movies, I believe.

Itiakorit

>--
><><><><><><><><>><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><<>><>
>Gilford T. Hapanyengwi       | All animals are equal, but 
>(615) 322-3552               | some are more equal than 
>gilford@vuse.vanderbilt.edu  | others.
>hapanyg@vuctrvax.bitnet      |
From: mahadeva@chimi.engr.ucdavis.edu (Vimalan Mahadevan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: teaching materials for Swahili
Date: 28 Dec 1992 18:09:11 -0600
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I am interested in finding out teaching materials for the Swahili language.
Could anyone send me references or direct me to an appropriate source?  I am
particularly interested in books, audio cassettes, etc. geared for the English
speaker.

Vim



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From: dit@sybase.com (David Trumbull)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african,soc.culture.african.american,alt.rap-gdead
Subject: Re: request for info on Haile Salassie, Ethiopia in the 50s
Date: 30 Dec 92 02:12:43 GMT
Organization: Knuckles Nuclear's Subterranean Disco PLANET!

In article <1992Dec8.091048.28298@math.ucla.edu> getachew@yosemite.math.ucla.edu (getachew hagos) writes:
>In article <1fuoevINN68v@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> cspot@cats.ucsc.edu (Christopher Edward Hilker) writes:
>>
>>pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us (Paul Harvey) writes:
>>>invented in NYC by the Jamaican DJ Kool Herc. And a great deal of
>>>hip-hop is inspired by Malcolm X who himself was inspired by Marcus
>>>Garvey, yet another Jamaican.
>>Minor caveat about an otherwise informative and well-written post:
>>the name was Kool DJ Herc, as far as I know.

Quibble time.. Hip Hop is often said to have been invented by Kool DJ Herc,
when in reality he was just one of the leading DJ's at the time of its
evolution (Music is not 'invented'). What most people are talking about when
they say that Kool Herc invented rap is his propensity to chat over the top
of records. I'll post some documentation and backup on this tomorrow. Oh
yeah, DJ Herc is said to have invented rap, not hip-hop, which was just a term
applied well after the movement was underway. 

I also dispute the claim that hip-hop was a jamaican 'invention'. While there
certainly was a great deal of cross pollination/jamaican influence, hip-hop
(or rap, whatever!) was as much a child of the breakbeat disco DJ's of NYC
as it was of a DJ speaking over a track. ALSO, no one person invented speaking
rhythmically (and in rhyme) over music. There are countless examples of 
'pre-rap' rap out there. This doesn't mean that I don't think that Kool DJ
Herc didn't play a crucial role in the development of rap/hiphop as a
new and unique form of music, though.

what?
cheers..
--
  Superhigh            \       We just feel happy 
 dit@sybase.com        /        we dont know why
  +vibes+             /	      We just feel happy - thats real     oh yeah....
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: matunda@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Nyanchama Matunda)
Subject: Re: KENYA, Economic collapse predicted.
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 21:55:30 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.144705.16281@panix.com> mukasa@panix.com (Michael K Mukasa) writes:
>
>I heard on the BBC this morning 0800 EST (1300 GMT Dec. 21.1992) that the
>VP. of FORD KENYA Mr. Paul Mutei (Sp.?) said the country was on the verge
>of economic collapse because the government had printed 300 million
>dollars worth of notes to help finance their campaign and try and ensure
>victory.


There is a real raw deal that the Kenyan elections are getting in the 
News Media with the current focus in Somalia. Little seems to filter 
out here even when there have been clashes in towns with loss of life
and several injuries.  The problem is that once it makes the head line 
news, it may be too late! 



>
>The BBC did not expand on this later in the news hour, but flooding the
>market with one third of a billion dollars in shilngs could have serious
>implications.
>


Ask the people in Nairobi and they will tell you that they are feeling the 
effects already. Prices of commodities and services are way up and the 
ordinary civil servant (a typical town dweller) can hardly make their 
ends meet if they are no doing other things (what has come to be 
known as "jua kali") on the side. Indeed, jua kali now refers to such 
activities totally unrelated to one's job but income generating all 
the same. For those that appreciate the impact of these, the predictions 
they give are of dire consequences to come.

Matunda Nyanchama



Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: barnhart@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Mr. Aaron Barnhart)
Subject: IPS:NIGERIA: CHOLERA RAVAGES RIVERS STATE
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:22:19 GMT
Organization: Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.

Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all rights reserved.  Permission to re-
print within 7 days of original date only with permission from 'newsdesk'.

Area: Europe, western
Title: NIGERIA: CHOLERA RAVAGES RIVERS STATE


an inter press service feature

by sunny ike

emohua, nigeria, dec 23 (ips) -- when three members of this
community in nigeria's south-western rivers state died two days
after eating a local delicacy during a meeting, it was suspected
they had been poisoned.

but the cause of their vomitting and diarrhoea, which
eventually led to their death, was diagnosed as cholera in a
private clinic where they were rushed by relatives.

''we thought they were poisoned because that seemed the
only rational explanation in such a rural area where the level
of education is low'', says favour okoroigwe, a relative of the
deceased.

the delicacy, a mixture of sliced meat and oil bean sauced
in pepper, is popular in this area of nigeria.

''the food must have been contaminated during preparation
by a carrier'', says christopher oke, head of the
epidemiological unit in the state ministry of health.

the tragedy is not isolated but has been played out in at
least seven local government areas of the state where about
2,000 people have died this year, victims of an annual cholera
epidemic, which ravages the state and claims ''about 10 percent
of its victims'', according to oke.

although oke notes that cholera is endemic in this part
of africa's most populous nation (88.5 million people), he
admits ''rivers has the highest death toll from the ailment in
the country''.

despite the certainty of this annual scourge which is
prevalent in the endemic areas for the last three months of each
year, health officials do not appear to be scared by the toll.

''there is nothing we can do about it, except in the area
of health education because the fundamental cause of the problem
is the dearth of infrastructure, in this case, water, in the
affected areas'', oke says.

infrastructural inadequacies are attributed to the ''huge
costs of providing clean and safe drinking water in these areas
that are mostly riverine'', says sampson ngereba, the rivers
state commissioner for works and transport. (more/ips)

(story received incomplete)