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GHANA-POLITICS: DEMOCRACY TAKES ROOT AFTER DECADES OF COUPS

DEMOCRACY APPEARS TO BE TAKING ROOT IN GHANA EVEN IF A HISTORY OF MILITARY COUPS HAS TAUGHT THE SOME 15 MILLION GHANAIANS NOT TO BE OVERLY COMPLACENT.

BURUNDI-POLITICS: EMBATTLED SPEAKER SACKED

By IPS Correspondents

THE BURUNDI GOVERNMENT THURSDAY BOWED TO OPPOSITION DEMANDS TO SACK THE SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT AND OFFERED THE EMBATTLED JAN MINANE A COMPROMISE POST.

An Inter Press Service Feature

By IPS Correspondents

Her fists clenched tight in anger, middle- aged Lena Andreyeva does little to conceal her fury against the Chechens. "We should finish this problem once and for all. Why should our army hold back from hitting civilians when they are all against us?"

UNITED NATIONS-SOUTH AFRICA: PRESIDENT DEMANDS PROOF

By IPS Correspondents

PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA HAS ASKED ORGANISATIONS MAKING ACCUSATIONS AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA'S AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE TO THE UNITED NATIONS IN GENEVA TO PROVIDE EVIDENCE.

MOZAMBIQUE-POLITICS: NEW BEGINNINGS

By IPS Correspondents

NEW BEGINNINGS ARE BEING CEMENTED IN MOZAMBIQUE, WHERE THE COGS ARE SLOWLY TURNING IN THE PAINFUL PROCESS OF RECOVERY AFTER 17 YEARS OF CIVIL WAR.

An Inter Press Service Feature

By IPS Correspondents

Relief workers who have visited Rwandan refugee camps in Zaire warn that the army of the deposed Hutu led government is preparing to launch an attack on the new government formed by the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF).

SOUTH AFRICA-POLITICS: CONTROVERSY OVER BOESAK’S UN APPOINTMENT

By IPS Correspondents

PRESSURE HAS BEEN MOUNTING ON PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA'S GOVERNMENT TO RECONSIDER THE APPOINTMENT OF FORMER ANTI-APARTHEID CAMPAIGNER ALLAN BOESAK AS SOUTH AFRICA'S AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE TO THE UNITED NATIONS IN GENEVA.

ANGOLA-POLITICS: DOS SANTOS, SAVIMBI MEETING UNCERTAIN, BEYE SAYS

By IPS Correspondents

PROSPECTS FOR A MEETING BETWEEN ANGOLAN PRESIDENT JOSE EDUARDO DOS SANTOS AND UNITA CHIEF JONAS SAVIMBI REMAIN UNCERTAIN, U.N. MEDIATOR ALOUINE BLONDIN BEYE SAID HERE WEDNESDAY.

RUSSIA-CHECHNYA: Moscow’s Troops Move Into Grozny’s Suburbs

By IPS Correspondents

Russian armed forces Wednesday moved into the suburbs of Grozny, capital of the rebellious republic of Chechnya -- one day after President Boris Yeltsin urged them to stamp out the separatist revolt.

SIERRA LEONE-POLITICS: LITTLE HOPE TO END CIVIL WAR

By Lansana Fofana

THERE APPEARS TO BE LITTLE HOPE TO END SIERRA LEONE'S CIVIL WAR WHICH HAS CLAIMED THOUSANDS OF LIVES SINCE IT ERUPTED THREE YEARS AGO.

RUSSIA-CHECHNYA: Yeltsin Calls on Army to Crush the Separatists

By IPS Correspondents

Russian President Boris Yeltsin Tuesday called on Russian armed forces in the breakaway republic of Chechnya to press ahead with their campaign against separatist militants.

RUSSIA-CHECHNYA: Moscow Prepares to Install Its Own Administration

By IPS Correspondents

Russian President Boris Yeltsin Monday indicated a likely conclusion to Russian military intervention in the breakaway republic of Chechnya as moves were initiated to install a new administration backed by Moscow.

YUGOSLAVIA-MEDIA: Borba’s Reporters Resist State Take-Over of Paper

By Vesna Peric Zimonjic

Serbian journalists, resisting government's attempt to tighten its hold on the national media, are refusing to work with a senior state official who was put in charge of Belgrade's only independent daily newspaper at the weekend.

MOZAMBIQUE-POLITICS: NEW GOVERNMENT SWORN IN

By IPS Correspondents

PRESIDENT JOACHIM CHISSANO FRIDAY SWORE IN MOZAMBIQUE'S NEW GOVERNMENT, CONSISTING OF 20 MINISTERS AND TEN DEPUTIES, AT THE 'PONTA VERMELHA,' HIS OFFICIAL RESIDENCE.

BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA: Ceasefire Signing Delayed, Negotiations Go On

By IPS Correspondents

U.N. envoy Yasushi Akashi continued talks with the government and rebel Serb leaders Friday after the noon deadline passed for a ceasefire to take effect throughout Bosnia- Hercegovina.

RUSSIA-CHECHNYA: Moscow Says Its Troops Have Sealed Off Grozny

By IPS Correspondents

Russia Friday said its armed forces had sealed the Chechen capital of Grozny while its bombers continued to rain bombs from the skies over the breakaway republic.

NORTHERN IRELAND: Paramilitary Prisoners Released For Christmas

By IPS Correspondents

The British government has released 47 paramilitary prisoners for seven days in a show of goodwill as Northern Ireland celebrates its first peaceful Christmas in 25 years.

FRANCE-HOMELESS: Christmas Cheer Comes in the Form of a Home

By IPS Correspondents

Walled in and empty for the last five years, the building on No. 7 Dragon street in Paris is slowly coming back to life.

RWANDA-POLITICS: LITTLE HOPE FOR PEACE IN 1995

By IPS Correspondents

THERE APPEARS TO BE LITTLE HOPE FOR PEACE IN RWANDA AS HUTU EXTREMISTS GO AHEAD WITH THEIR PLAN TO DESTABLISE THE GOVERNMENT IN KIGALI.

ZIMBABWE-ECONOMY: BLACKS ENTREPRENEURS WORRIED AS WHITES RETURN

By IPS Correspondents

BLACK ENTREPRENEURS ARE CLAIMING THAT THOUSANDS OF WHITE RETURNEES WHO FLED ZIMBABWE AFTER THE ADVENT OF BLACK RULE IN 1980 ARE WHITTLING AWAY AT THEIR LIMITED BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.