JPRS ID: 8635 SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA REPORT

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27 August 1979
Sub-Saharan Africa Re ort
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FOUO No, 646
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27 August 1.979
SUB-SAIIARAN .AFRI CA REPORT
FOUO No. 646
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INT~R-AFItICAN A~'FAIRS -
Arms for Ithodeaia Transit Mauritius, Reporta Charge
(H~rve Masaon; AFRIQUE-ASIE, 23 Jul 79).........~........ 1
CHAD
Peuce Process Barely Begun Deapite Normal Life in South
(Jacquea Latremoliere; MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS~
20 Jul 79) 4
Briefa
New French Military Chief 11
CENTRAL AF'RICAN EMPIRE
FAD Financing Stockraising Projects
(MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS, 13 Jul 79)......... 12
FED, Netherlanda To Provide Aid in Fish Breeding Sector
(MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITyRRANEENS, 6 Jul ~9).......... 14
KENYA
Briefs
Swedish Minister Visits 16
LIBERIA
Disadvantages of Present EconQmic System Noted
(JEUNE AFRIQiTE, 25 Jul 79) 17
NIGER
Briefs
- Price Increase Wanted 19
Islamic Bank 19
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_ CONTRNTS (Continued) pgg~
5~N~GAL
BrieFs
Plan Itevised 20
Exports Promoeed 20
TANZANIA
Traces of Petroleum Diacovared in Songo Songo
(MARCHES TROPTCAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS, 20 Jul 79)......... 21
Brief g
Production Increase Urged 22
, German Aid 22
Private InvesCmene Encouraged 22
Sisal Production Drops 23
Nation Facing Bankruptcy 23
Dutch Financing 24
UGANDA
Binaisa Kas Trouble Maintaining Stable Situation
(MARCNES TROPICAUX ET M~DITERRANEENS, 13 :;~~1 79)......... 25 -
Need Seen To Increase Coffee Production
(MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS, 20 Jul 79)......... 27
Briefs
Coffee Production Measures 29
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INT~R-A'E'RICAN AF~'AIRS
AItM5 FOIt RHODESIA TRANSTT MAURITIUS, REPORTS CHARGE
Paria AFRIQUE-ASIE in French 23 Jul 79 p 77
- (Articl~ by Herve Masson]
(Text] Another scandal. Something's going on that will
geC the Port-Louis government in still more hot water.
Everybody knows that since she became Britain's prime minister, Mrs Thatcher
hAS been doing her level best to get the Western powers to grant official
recognition to the Muzorewa-Smith regime and to Rhodesia-Zimbabwe's "inde-
_ pendence." Bri~ish Conservatives have cloae ties with aeveral multinational
corporations operating on the scene, companies like Lonrho, far one. During
a stopover in New Delhi, Lord Carrington, Foreigri Office secretary, on 2 July
said Chat London was contemplating recognizing for Bishop Muzorewa's govern-
_ menr; at about the same time, down in Canberra, Mrs Thatcher was announcing
that Great Britain might well decide to lift sanctions against Rhodeaia in
rlovember. Pressures are being brought to bear on the United SCates and on
such African regimes as Zambia, where the queen is to go next AugusC.
There's Rogers, and Then There's Rogers....
If the other Commonwealth states wax indignant, the Conservatives in London
(~~nd in the city) could not care less.
Meanwhile, the traffic in arms flowing toward Salisbury is doing very nicely.
And in that connection, a scandal has ~ust erupted on Mauritius, whoae govern-
~ ment is, as everybody knows, one of the Western powers' most faithf4l allies.
In a 12 June BBC broadcast from London, Mauritius--or, more precisely, the
b Mauritian firm of Rogers--was accused of transshipping weapons and military
materiel to Rhodesia via Port-Louis. Questioned in the assembly, Mauritian
Prime Minister Seewoosagur Rdmgoolam would say only that the Rogers company
was not involved, nor wae any other Mauritian company. He did not, however,
deny that arms shipments were transferred from one shiF to another off
Port-Louis.
As for the Rogers ccmpany, it mounted its high horse. One of the company
directors, Mr Rene Maingard (from Ville-es-Offrans) announced that Rogers had
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d~manded a comE~leCe retraction by the BBC. The company's London Attorneys
are reporCedly coneidering possible euiCS againax Che BBC. Mr Maingard,
Chough, did eake t~me Co point oue thn~ Rogera is a veky common name in
Cnglish-speaking counCrie~, which ie true enough. Maybe, he ventured~ the
gtory really reterred ro nnoeher compnny of the same name. WhaC he completely
neglecCed to say was thaC there is only onz Rogers company in Mauritius, and
th~t is the one on whose board of directors he sits! -
How much eruth is there in this sCory? While we do tiot have proof thaC it is
indeed Rogerg of Mauritius that is involved, a11 the rest is ~ospel, and a
m~tter of general knowledge. F'irsC of all, ir would be helpful to recnll Che
statemenCs of Mr GaetAn Duva'l, leader of the Mauritian Social Democratic ParCy
(PMSU), and A member of Che coalition governmenC. Criticizing the prime min-
isrer's leanings Coward a more progressive foreign policy, Mr Duval stated
thaC his party and he himself favored immediate recognition of thp Muzorewa
regime and a rapprochement with P~etoria. The former foreign minister solemn- -
ly ~dded that "Mauritius' friends are in the West." The PMSD has the muscle
to put pressure on the government and force it to ahut its eyes to an arms
traffic it cttn only approve. People are not unaware either that, despite all
the commitments made to the OAU (and more r.ecently to the Libyan GovernmenC),
the Mauritian Government mainCains very close ties with SouCh Africa. South
Africans are Mauritius best tourist trade in Che luxury range. Rogera and the
htaing~~rd family have some of the largest holding~ in hotel chains.
In leEt-wing circles within the governing Labor Party, they say that in fact
arms, including shells, spare parts for planes and helicopters, and "highly
sophisticated weapons," recpntly passed Chrough Port-Louis. These Labor Party
members have no hesitancy in naming the Maur.itian companies and dignitaries
involved in this traffic. They have called on the prime minister for an
investigation of the matter, and he has agreed. We would be realy to bet that
it will lea~l nowhere, unless, of course, the opposition, particularly the
htauri~ius Militant Movement (I~II~IM), decides to get into the act.
, 5o f.ar, though, the official explanations have convinced nobody, and everybody
i~ waiting impatiently Co see what the investigation will turn up.
Be that as it may, the BBG charges have stirred up considerable emotion in
London and in Commonwealth circles.
Explanations have reportedly been demanded by the Mauritian Government. Au-
tt~orized Commonwealth spokesmen in London feel that the matter is of particu-
]ir gravity at the diplomatic level, because it constitutes no less than a
flagrant violation of the sanctions imposed on Rhodesia. The prime minister's
ather scanty ar,d wholly inadequate explanations to the assembly were hardly
calculated to quiet the outrage and indignation of all his Commonwealth-nation
_ colleagues.
Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam who, at this point, has to cope with an unprecedent-
eci crisis in his regime, certainly has other fish to fry. The vast majority
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of Che MnuriCiAn people are alre~dy cnlling for him Co resign F?nd far ehe
- ouyCer of the corrupt people, a11 of them more or less in Che pay nf foreign
interests, wt~o m~ke up the gang thnt has been in power �or so 1ong. Under ~
~~track from outside and under pressure at home, can iC sCi11 hang on? Can
iL ~o on leeting things drifr? From now on, MauriCiany will have their share
in eh~: massncres nnd executions Chat are bloodying southern Africa. We all
, knnw ehat, nn maeter where it's been, monpy never stinks--aC least not of
blood--but in Mauritius, a~ elsewhere, more and more people growing more nnd
more impaCipnC feel Char rhere is a limit to the d~i1y scandal of a corrupt
syst~m.
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F'Ott Ul~t~'1CTAL ilSis c1NLY
CHAD
PEAC~; PROCESS BARELY BEGUN DF:5PITE NORMAL LIFE IN SOUTN
Paris i~tARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEbITERRANEENS in French 20 Jul 79 pp 2021-2023
[Article by Jacques Latremoliere: "The Conditions of Political Settlement in
Chad"~ .
[Text] The successes wrn~-in Mayo-Kebbi at the beginning of June by Le Col
Kamougue's troops, at the expense of the northern troops Elown to Bongor by
the government had as its first effect the renewal of conEidence in the old
national army of Chad, now withdrawn almost entirely to the cotton growing
regions. Contributing to erasing the insults that army had suffered in
Ndjamena in February, have these successes then improved the chances of a
peaceful settlement between the two camps? The trip made to Chad at the end
of last month by Mr Guy Georgy, director of African and Malagasy affairs at
the Quai d'Orsay, gave rise to certain hopes in this regard, in particular
in Sahr, within the small French colony of technicians, businessmen and
pries[s who have lived [here without interruption.
The hope and the deception which followed were both needless. At the current
5tage, the goal can only be to get the enemy brothers to accept the idea of
~ neeting, excluding insofar as possible the more or less self-interested
in~erventfon of neighboring countries. If this has been donc in theory, in
practice the factions excluded from the regime, of which Ndjamena remains the
synbol, are repelled today as yesterday by [he idea oE cutting off their
Eoreign support. Lagos and, a fortiori, Tripoli having declined to host a
Euture conference Eor the government of ~1r Mahamat Choua; Col Kamougue, on
the other hand, does not plan to aliena;.e the sympathies of Nigeria, nor the -
more distant ones of I.ibya, on [his sub,ject. The adjacent countries, for
their par[, would like [o prevent the Chadian affair from becomfng a cause
of discord among them. Cameroun in particular has seemed careful not Co
ofEend its powerEul neighbor to the west by sponsoring, or giving the
impression of sponsoring, a new reconciliation effort.
While the organization of a conference in Chad comes to the same in fact as
recognizing a duality of power to which both north and south continue to
voice hostility, the choice of a place where it could be held will without a _
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dc~ubt bc r.hc: sub~jec~ of a second stage oE negotiaCion, in the lnng and
dc~t~711r.d Stylr. Cn11S{;3tettt wt~h the local spirit. The modus vivcndi which
~;ecm5 tc~ h~ve been established ~lon~ the borders of the cotton growing
countr.y, follnwinS the battles ~t Pala and ~re, should ~acilitnte its d~velnp-
ment, rev~~l.ing at the same ~ime the stmilarities oE ineerests or go~ils likcly
to d{ctare the n~w political groupings.
I~ would be venturesome, however, to prejudge in this reg~rd, since the
ma.jority aE the cxisting parties developed in relation to rhe others in the
c~ou?�se of rccenr. years ,~nd collaboration in the armed struggle. No secious
_ pro,jection about the Euture of Chad can be made in a'presen~ which itself is
flucr.uattng, and no ~ssertinn could be certain of approaching the Cruth. At
r.hc must it is acceptable to dispel cer~ain interpretations which are
obvtously characterized by c:onfusion or error.
'The Situatian tn the Corton Crowing Country
Une of the legends due much more in Eact to t~:a precarious postal and communi-
c�.nt:ton links coith foreign countries than to partisan propaganda, has to do
with the supposed economic and administrative anarchy prevailing in rhe cotton
growin~ territory following the ethnic uprisin~s which occurred lasr February
i n Sahr and ~toundou.
'1'hr. fact that these rebellions did in facr occur and, unhappily, took a harsh
t:oll in human lifc~--there is talk of 500 deaths in Moyen-Chari and perhaps
inore in Logone--has, alas, been established. The high feelings sustained in
the towns by natives of the south, flooding back from Ndjamena contributed
greatly to increasing the figures. Arriving on foot or packed into COTONTCNAD
crucks, plundered, harassed, many of them having lost their wives, children
~ind possessions in the bombings of the capital and the plundering which
Fnsvrship of tir Maham~t Choua Lol in the namc of a sacred union against