Sunny Hurghada is full of exoticism. Ease of vacation, beautiful beaches and affordable resorts make Hurghada, Egypt an excellent holiday destination. Hurghada is a combination of history, turquoise blue sea, scorching sun and oriental trading[…]
Yearbook 1998 Zimbabwe. According to Countryaah, the capital of Zimbabwe is Harare. The economic and political situation deteriorated drastically during the year. A series of strikes were carried out against tax and price increases. The[…]
Yearbook 1998 Zambia. According to Countryaah, the capital of Zambia is Lusaka. Former President Kenneth Kaunda, who was arrested in December 1997 accused of participating in a coup attempt, was indicted in January. However, when[…]
Yearbook 1998 Western Sahara. The year was marked by discussions about the referendum on V’s future status which was planned for December but which was to be postponed for at least one year. Through the[…]
Yearbook 1998 Uganda. Rebel forces continued to haunt the border areas in the north and west. In the north, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), villages and small towns attacked, and in the west, the United[…]
Yearbook 1998 Tunisia. According to Countryaah, the capital of Tunisia is Tunis. Several human rights organizations criticized Tunisia’s police, military and judicial system for various forms of abuse during the year. One example was human[…]
Yearbook 1998 Togo. According to Countryaah, the capital of Togo is Lome. The country’s residents went to presidential elections June 21. President Gnassingbé Eyadéma, who has been in power for 31 years, ran for another[…]
Yearbook 1998 Tanzania. According to Countryaah, the capital of Tanzania is DDodoma. Eleven people were killed and 72 injured in a blast attack on the US embassy in Dar es-Salaam on August 7. An Egyptian[…]
Yearbook 1998 Sudan. Another famine hit southern Sudan during the summer, mainly Bahr al-Ghazal province. According to Countryaah, the capital of Sudan is Khartoum. The famine was caused not only by drought but also by[…]
Yearbook 1998 South Africa. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which has investigated human rights violations during the apartheid years, submitted its final report to President Nelson Mandela in October. The Commission then blamed the ruling[…]
Yearbook 1998 Somalia. According to Countryaah, the capital of Somalia is Mogadishu. The peace initiative that was taken at a Cairo meeting in December 1997 ran out of sand because of the split between the[…]
Yearbook 1998 Sierra Leone. In February, Nigerian-led West African force ECOMOG entered the capital Freetown and expelled the military junta that had overthrown President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah in May 1997. According to Countryaah, the capital[…]
Yearbook 1998 Seychelles. According to Countryaah, the capital of Seychelles is Victoria. President France Albert René, like his party, the Seychelles People’s Progressive Front (SPPF) won big in the March 20-22 presidential and parliamentary elections.[…]
Yearbook 1998 Senegal. Allegations of electoral fraud and other irregularities came before the parliamentary elections on May 24. According to Countryaah, the capital of Senegal is Dakar. The ruling Socialist Party Parti socialiste sénégalais (PS)[…]
Yearbook 1998 São Tomé and Príncipe. In November’s parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Raul Bragança Neto and his ruling MLSTP-PSD (Movimento de Libertação de São Tomé e Príncipe-Partido Social Democático) gained their own majority with 31[…]
Yearbook 1998 Rwanda. According to Countryaah, the capital of Rwanda is Kigali. Northwestern Rwanda was plagued all year by hutumilis’ assassinations against civilian Tutsis and the Tutsidomined army’s counter-offensive. Every month there were reports of[…]
Yearbook 1998 Congo. The unrest following the civil war in 1997 continued sporadically. The so-called Ninjamilis, former Prime Minister Bernard Kolela’s private army, was blamed for a number of armed assaults. According to authorities, the[…]
Yearbook 1998 Nigeria. All five parties nominated dictator Sani Abacha as their candidate in the August presidential election. However, all parties were pure puppets to the military junta, and interest in the parliamentary elections in[…]
Yearbook 1998 Niger. Former Prime Minister Hama Amadou and two other leading opposition politicians were arrested in January accused of planning to assassinate President Ibrahim Baré Mainassara. They were released on bail but threatened with[…]
Yearbook 1998 Namibia. In September, President Sam Nujoma vehemently criticized the EU’s decision to review the U.S. aid that went to Namibia and other African states that intervened in the Congo-Kinshasa conflict. The EU wanted[…]
Yearbook 1998 Mozambique. According to Countryaah, the capital of Mozambique is Maputo. Mozambique, one of the world’s poorest countries and Sweden’s largest aid country, suffered a severe setback in the summer when the opposition party[…]
Yearbook 1998 Morocco. As a result of the November 1997 parliamentary elections, Socialist veteran Abderrahmane Youssoufi was appointed new Prime Minister in February. It was the first time in King Hassan II’s 37 years as[…]
Yearbook 1998 Mauritius. According to Countryaah, the capital of Mauritius is Port Louis. The Mauritius Labor Party (MLP) won an election in April with 41.5% of the vote. But even the opposition party Mouvement Socialiste[…]
Yearbook 1998 Mauritania. According to Countryaah, the capital of Mauritania is Nouakchott. Two French TV channels broadcast in mid-January a program claiming that slavery exists in Mauritania. Shortly thereafter, three of the country’s leading human[…]
Yearbook 1998 Mali. According to Countryaah, the capital of Mali is Bamako. Former dictator Moussa Traoré, his wife and four officials from his regime were brought to trial in October for embezzling the equivalent of[…]
In January 96, Malawi, together with 11 other countries in southern Africa, started negotiations with regard to. the creation of a free trade area. At the same time, the government announced that it repealed a[…]
Yearbook 1998 Madagascar. In March, a referendum was held on constitutional amendments that would give the president increased power, and strengthen the regional power of the country’s six provinces. The opposition, fearing that President Didier[…]
Yearbook 1998 Libya. The year was marked by discussions about the plans for a lawsuit against two Libyans suspected to be behind the explosion of a US passenger plane over the Scottish village of Lockerbie[…]
Yearbook 1998 Liberia. Despite the return to civilian government, Liberia was described as a country where the residents lived under great legal uncertainty. Both the official security forces and the formally wounded militias were reported[…]
Yearbook 1998 Lesotho. According to Countryaah, the capital of Lesotho is Maseru. Prime Minister Ntsu Mokhehle resigned in January as leader of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD). He also dissolved Parliament and announced new[…]
Yearbook 1998 Kenya. According to Countryaah, the capital of Kenya is Nairobi. President Daniel arap Moi and his party Kenya’s African National Union, the Kenyan African National Union (KANU), entered power in 1998 after defeating[…]
Yearbook 1998 Ivory Coast. At the end of May, Mali’s Minister of Justice announced that about 10,000 children from his home country had been sold as slaves in neighboring Ivory Coast. According to Countryaah, the[…]
Yearbook 1998 Guinea Bissau. Conflicts within the ruling party Partido Africano da Independência Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC) caused the party congress to start only in May, almost a year late. At the congress, President[…]
Yearbook 1998 Guinea. In mid-January, the Supreme Court rejected the opposition’s attempt to have a new electoral law annulled. According to Countryaah, the capital of Guinea is Conakry. The law prohibits candidates with dual citizenship[…]
Yearbook 1998 Ghana. After decades of more or less open hostility, in May Ghana and Togo promised to observe good neighbors. The friendship agreement was entered into when Togo President Gnassingbe Eyadema for the first[…]
Yearbook 1998 The Gambia. According to Countryaah, the capital of Gambia is Banjul. Three former officers were sentenced in October to death by the Supreme Court for treason. They were accused of trying to overthrow[…]
Yearbook 1998 Gabon. In the presidential election in early December, as expected, the then-sitting president, 63-year-old Omar Bongo, was re-elected for another seven-year term with 66% of the vote. He was challenged by seven opposition[…]
Yearbook 1998 Ethiopia. War broke out in May with neighboring Eritrea, after Ethiopia accused Eritrea of occupying an area around the town of Badme on what was considered Ethiopian territory (for description of the conflict,[…]
Yearbook 1998 Swaziland. In August, King Mswati dissolved the parliament ahead of the planned parliamentary elections in October. The decision was seen as an attempt to respond to the opposition’s call for voters to boycott[…]
Yearbook 1998 Eritrea. After a period of disagreement over the border crossing between Eritrea and Ethiopia, fighting in the border area erupted in May. Eritrea claimed that Ethiopian forces attacked Eritrean territory, while Ethiopia claimed[…]
Yearbook 1998 Equatorial Guinea. In January, separatist unrest erupted on the island of Bioko. They were in contradiction between the two peoples bubi, who dominate numerically on Bioko, and fang, who dominate on the mainland.[…]
Yearbook 1998 Egypt. Despite the tension in the country during the year, it seemed to slow down somewhat and no major acts of terrorism continued, the government continued to try to fight Islamists and moderate[…]
Yearbook 1998 Djibouti. According to Countryaah, the capital of Djibouti is Djibouti. Moumin Bahdon Farah, former Minister of the Interior, Foreign and Justice, was arrested along with two government-critical journalists on suspicion of providing support[…]
Yearbook 1998 Congo. According to Countryaah, the capital of Democratic Republic of the Congo is Kinshasa. President Laurent-Désiré Kabila acted increasingly authoritarian. In February he sent opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi in exile and in February[…]
Yearbook 1998 Comoros. Several government reforms were carried out during the year, the most pervasive in May when ten of the government’s eleven ministers were dismissed. The fragile economy led to dissatisfaction with the regime.[…]
Yearbook 1998 Chad. Chad and Cameroon agreed in January to begin work on a pipeline from the oil fields in southern Chad to the Cameroonian Atlantic coast. But before oil production can start, political unrest[…]
Yearbook 1998 Central African Republic. In March, the UN Security Council appointed a 1,350 peacekeeping force to replace a French-led African troop that monitored the ceasefire entered into in February 1997 following a year of[…]
Yearbook 1998 Cameroon. The multi-year border dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria over the Bakassi Peninsula was re-updated in March. Nigeria accused Cameroon of gathering at least 5,000 soldiers at the border, claiming they were preparing[…]
In 1984, the drought reduced the harvest by 25% compared to the previous five years. According to Countryaah, the capital of Cape Verde is Praia. The current account deficit was $ 70 million and foreign[…]
Yearbook 1998 Burundi. After a violent start to the year, when hutumilis carried out a series of attacks near the capital Bujumbura, peace talks could begin in June. According to Countryaah, the capital of Burundi[…]
