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Central African Republic |
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Defense Minister Jean-Jacques Démafouth is dismissed and arrested. Prime Minister Martin Ziguélé becomes acting defense minister. Ziguélé profile : Born in Feb.12, 1957 in Paoua ( Central African Rep.). 1972 : BEPC Degree from Bossangoa Small Seminary 1975 : Baccalaureate degree (State Lycée of the Rapides in Bangui - RCA). 1976-1978 : a degree in Higher Studies for Insurance (D.E.S.A) from the International Institute of Insurance in Yaoundé (Cameroon). 1975-1977 et 1981-1982 :B.A degree- (faculty of Artsand human Sciences from the university of Bangui - RCA). 15 July- 30 October 1978: senior officer at the head of the controle of Insurance at the Ministry of Finance in Bangui (RCA). Sept. 1988 - December 1995: Head of various Dep.at the State Enterprise for Insurance SIRIRI Bangui- RCA. January 1996-July 2000: Head of the life division at CICARE's along with another position at the IARD's for non-African affairs (Europe, Asiaand Middle East). July 2000-April 2001 : National Manager of BEAC forRCA. |
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Estonia |
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Indirect presidential election by the parliament 1st attempt. Results : The session follows a first round vote when neither former Prime Minister Andres Tarand or opposition candidate Peeter Kreitzberg got the 68 votes needed to win. |
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Argentina (Chaco) |
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The ruling Alianza coalition gained a solid 17% lead over the opposition Partido Justicialista in the elections to replace the vice-governor, and part of the legislature, of Chaco province. Roy Abelardo Nikisch will take over as vice-governor. |
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Faeroe Islands |
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Former prime minister (1993-94) Marita Petersen dies. Then served as president of the Parliament (Løgting) of the North Atlantic Islands up to 1995. |
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Gambia, The |
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One of the most articulate Foreign Ministers in the sub-region, Gambian born Sadack Diop has resigned from the government of President Yayah Jammeh. Mamadou Lamin Sedat Jobe reports monitored here by this press say the former minister tendered his letter of resignation in protest over the deportation of the Deputy British High Commissioner to the Gambia by President Yayah Jammeh out of the country. |
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Poland |
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Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek replace his finance minister, after he insisted ahead of next month's national elections that government spending cuts were needed to avert a surge in the budget deficit. Mr. Buzek said he had dismissed Jaroslaw Bauc "not because he presented a dramatic situation of the state finances and an austerity plan, but because he has done that so late and not in line with principles of cooperation within the government." He nominated former deputy finance minister, Halina Wasilewska-Trenkner, to take over. |
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Barbados |
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Mia Amor Mottley is named home affairs minister. Mia Amor Mottley was elected to the Barbados parliament in September 1994, as part of Owen Arthur's new Barbados Labour Party government. Appointed Minister of Education, Youth Affairs and Culture in the first cabinet, she became a key player in developing the government's job-creation initiative, and authored a well-known white paper that draws the link between better education and job fulfilment. In 1996, she served as Chairman of the CARICOM Standing Committee of Ministers of Education (Caribbean Community). Mia Mottley is lawyer by profession. With a law degree from the London School of Economics, she is a Barbados Attorney-at-Law and a Barrister of the Bar of England and Wales. |
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Netherlands |
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Prime Minister Wim Kok announce that he would quit as Labor party chief and that he would not run for a third term in office when the Netherlands holds elections next May. |
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East Timor |
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General elections. East Timorese vote for constituent assembly. Results The unofficial election result is expected to be known on September 5 and the poll declared on September 10. |
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Gambia, The |
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Baboucarr-Blaise Jagne becomes foreign minister. Before his re-appointment as SOS for Foreign Affairs, Mr Jagne was the Gambia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. |
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World Conference Against Racism |
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World Conference Against Racism There have been several United Nations gatherings to combat racism in the decades since the organization set up shop. This one wants to set itself apart by being the first one that actually achieves something. There is little sign that the gathering of cabinet ministers, a few heads of state and hundreds of non-governmental representatives will be able to achieve their aim of producing legislation that participating countries can enact. The conference is at risk from an attempt by some Arab states to include Zionism on the agenda and equate it with racism. It is the ideology behind Israelis' belief in their right to a homeland. The likely inclusion of compensation for slavery is another issue that could sink the conference. The draft declaration from a preparatory meeting, the Dakar African Regional Conference on Racism, called for recognition of past injustices by colonial powers, and and explicit apology from them. The United States plan to boycott the meeting over the slavery issue, seeing legislation as the first step in costly reparations to the families of former US slaves. |
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Seychelles |
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President election. Results : Next week |
VIPS VISITS
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Kofi Annan in Australia UN General Secretary Kofi Annan, visits Canberra a few dayw ahead of the first general elections in East Timor whose reconstruction has been supported by Australia. |
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King of Jordan Visits Russia Jordan's King Abdullah II in Moscow for talks on trade and on the violence in the Middle East, where he was expected to urge Russia to play a bigger role in peace efforts. The king's first official trip to Russia could also include talks on purchasing Russian weapons and other military cooperation, Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency reported. Abdullah is to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and other leaders in late visit St. Petersburg. |
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Leaders of Russia, Macedonia, Poland meet in Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine's capital to take part in celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the country's independence, and to meet with the leaders of Macedonia, Poland and Ukraine. Macedonia's President Boris Trajkovski and Putin are likely to discuss NATO's mission in Macedonia to disarm ethnic Albanian militants who have been fighting government troops. |
THIS WEEK'S STORY
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Mountbatten killed by IRA On August 27, 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten is killed when Irish Republican Army (IRA) terrorists detonate a 50-pound bomb hidden on his fishing vessel Shadow V. Mountbatten, a war hero, elder statesman, and second cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, was spending the day with his family in Donegal Bay off Ireland's northwest coast when the bomb exploded. Three others were killed in the attack, including Mountbatten's 14-year-old grandson, Nicholas. Later that day, an IRA bombing attack on land killed 18 British paratroopers in County Down, Northern Ireland. The assassination of Mountbatten was the first blow struck against the British royal family by the IRA during its long terrorist campaign to drive the British out of Northern Ireland and unite it with the Republic of Ireland to the south. The attack hardened the hearts of many Brits against the IRA and convinced Margaret Thatcher's government to take a hard-line stance against the terrorist organization. Louis Mountbatten, the son of Prince Louis of Battenberg and a great-grandson of Queen Victoria I, entered the Royal Navy in 1913, when he was in his early teens. He saw service during World War I and at the outbreak of World War II was commander of the 5th destroyer flotilla. His destroyer, the HMS Kelly, was sunk off Crete early in the war. In 1941, he commanded an aircraft carrier, and in 1942 he was named chief of combined operations. From this position, he was appointed supreme Allied commander for Southeast Asia in 1943 and successfully conducted the campaign against Japan that led to the recapture of Burma. In 1947, he was appointed the last viceroy of India, and he conducted the negotiations that led to independence for India and Pakistan later that year. He held various high naval posts in the 1950s and served as chief of the United Kingdom Defense Staff and chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. Meanwhile, he was made Viscount Mountbatten of Burma and a first earl. He was the uncle of Philip Mountbatten and introduced Philip to the future Queen Elizabeth. He later encouraged the marriage of the two distant cousins and became godfather and mentor to their first born, Charles, prince of Wales Made governor and then lord lieutenant of the Isle of Wight in his retirement, Lord Mountbatten was a respected and beloved member of the royal family. His assassination on August 27, 1979, was perhaps the most shocking of all horrors inflicted by the IRA against the United Kingdom. In addition to his grandson Nicholas, 15-year-old boat hand Paul Maxwell was killed in the attack; the Dowager Lady Brabourne, Nicholas' grandmother, was also fatally injured. Mountbatten's grandson Timothy-Nicholas' twin-was injured ; as was his daughter, Lady Brabourne ; and the twins' father, Lord Brabourne. Lord Mountbatten was 70. |
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