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Dcs d'Harry Oppenheimer  -  L'homme d'affaires  sud-africain Harry Frederick Oppenheimer est dcd le 19 aot   Johannesburg  l'ge de 92 ans. Il avait prsid pendant 27 ans aux  destines du groupe minier sud-africain Anglo-American-De Beers qui, sous  sa frule, contrlait 90% du commerce mondial du diamant. Adversaire  dtermin de l'apartheid, il avait promu les contacts entre le monde des  affaires et les dirigeants de l'ANC. Nelson Mandela a salu en lui "un  grand Sud-Africain de notre temps". Le chef de l'Etat Thabo Mbeki a rappel  son "rle pionnier dans la rconciliation nationale".  (ANB-BIA, de sources  diverses, 22 aot 2000)  * Soudan. Reprise des vols humanitaires  -  Les Nations unies ont annonc,  le 15 aot, la reprise dans les 24 heures des vols humanitaires au Soudan,  suspendus depuis une semaine en raison de bombardements sur des cibles  civiles et du personnel humanitaire. M. Kofi Annan s'est "flicit des  assurances reues du prsident soudanais selon lesquelles toutes les  mesures sont prises pour assurer la scurit des appareils et du personnel  de l'opration Lifeline Sudan". - D'autre part, le ministre soudanais des  Affaires trangres a annonc qu'une dlgation amricaine comprenant des  experts du FBI, de la CIA et du dpartement d'Etat, se trouve en mission au  Soudan depuis le mois de juin, dans le but de vrifier les accusations de  soutien au terrorisme portes contre le Soudan. Quasiment geles, les  relations soudano-amricaines ont connu en avril une certaine amlioration  avec la reprise partielle des activits de l'ambassade des Etats-Unis   Khartoum, ferme depuis 1996.  (ANB-BIA, de sources diverses, 17 aot 2000)  * Sudan. UNICEF official appeals to Sudan to ratify equal rights  treaty  -  A UNICEF official has appealed to the Sudanese government to  sign a 20-year-old treaty promoting equal opportunities for women. "I urge  the government of Sudan to ratify (the treaty) and make its commitment to  its women, not a passive one, but an obligation for the succeeding  generations to honour and uphold", said Karin Sham Poo, deputy executive  director for UNICEF.  (CNN, 21 August 2000)  * Sudan. Bombs dropped near Christian relief agencies  -  On 22 August, a  Sudanese air force plane dropped 15 bombs near a relief agency compound in  southeastern Sudan, destroying five buildings. The bombs fell near African  Inland Church and Roman Catholic Church buildings, the Norwegian Church Aid  compound and a teacher's training college in the town of Ikotos. The  bombing comes barely a week after the government assured UN  Secretary-General Kofi Annan that "all measures are being taken to ensure  safety" of UN flights.  (CNN, 22 August 2000)  * Swaziland. Anger at AIDS camp proposal  -  An adviser to the Swazi  monarch has shocked health workers at a conference in Swaziland after he  proposed an isolation camp for HIV and AIDS sufferers. Tfohongwane Dlamini,  the influential chairman of the National Council Standing Committee, told  delegates that the only way to prevent the spread of the disease was  through isolating the victims. He described the suffers as "bad potatoes"  and said they must be removed from general society or else "all will go  rotten".  (BBC News, 16 August, 2000)  * Tanzanie. Disette  -  Le 15 aot, le gouvernement tanzanien a estim   2,8 millions le nombre de personnnes qui risquent de ptir gravement des  pnuries de nourriture qui pourraient survenir en raison de la scheresse.  Dix rgions, sur les vingt que compte le pays, seront dpendantes de l'aide  internationale au cours des 5  7 prochains mois, selon Dar  es-Salaam.  (Libration, France, 16 aot 2000)  * Tanzania. Election fever  -  Official campaigning for Tanzania's  forthcoming general election has kicked off with the ruling party and the  main opposition alliance holding rallies in dar es Salaam on 19 August. On  20 August it was the turn of one of the smaller parties, the Tanzania  Labour Party (TLP) to attempt to woo voters. Spirits were high at the  Kidongo Chekundu grounds in central Dar-es-Salaam; the youthful crowd  danced in the dust as they awaited their leader, Mr Augustine Mrema. Mr  Mrema is a talisman for the TLP - his arrival from NCCR-Maguezi, another  opposition party, lifted the TLP from political obscurity.  (BBC News, 22  August 2000)  * Togo. Children's parliament  -  On 17 August, the National Assembly  inaugurated a children's parliament with a membership of 81, including 25  girls, with none exceeding 16 years. The children's parliament will, during  the current session, host several members of government for question and  answer sessions. The schoolmates have nominated these junior members of  parliament.  (PANA, Dakar, 17 August 2000)  * Chad. Election fraud could take place  -  On 14 August, human rights  groups and trade unions in Chad criticised their exclusion from the  supervision of future elections and said they feared the government wanted  to leave the way open for ballot-rigging. The groups, including the main  labour confederation, the UST and the Chadian Human Rights League, called  on President Idriss Deby to ensure elections were fully transparent. (CNN,  14 August 2000)  * Tunisie. Grve de la faim  -  Le Conseil national des liberts en Tunisie  (CNLT) a appel les autorits  trouver "une issue humanitaire urgente"   la situation de Taoufik Chaeb, prisonnier islamiste en grve de la faim.  Sa sant s'est gravement dtriore aprs 36 jours de jene, selon le CNLT.  Amnesty International estime que la Tunisie compte un millier de  "prisonniers d'opinion".  (La Croix, France, 17 aot 2000)  * Uganda. Trying to nullify the referendum poll  -  The Constitutional  Court has fixed 4 September 2000 for the hearing of the petition in which  Dr. Paul K. Ssemogerere and Zachary Olum are challenging The Referendum  (Political Systems) Act 2000. Ssemogerere and Olum filed the petition in  June, seeking, among other things, to nullify the referendum poll that was  eventually held on 29 June. The Movement won the poll by over 90% of the  votes. The same court, on 10 August, nullified The Referendum and Other  Provisions Act 1999, after a challenge by the same petitioners. The  nullification followed a Supreme Court order nullifying the Constitutional  Court's dismissal of the petition. On 15 August, Ssemogerere was awarded  sh351m as costs for his successful appeal against the dismissal.  (The New  Vision, Uganda, 17 August 2000)  * Zambia. Journalists cleared of espionage  -  10 out of 11 journalists  charged with espionage have been cleared at the High Court in Lusaka. The  journalists were charged after an article appeared in the country's only  independent daily newspaper, The Post, last March alleging that Zambia did  not have the military capability to withstand an attack from neighbouring  Angola. However, the judge ruled that the newspaper's editor, Fred M'membe,  did have a case to answer.  (BBC News, 18 August 2000)  * Zambia. Debt relief leaves the poor worse off  -  International effort to  cut the debts of the world's poorest countries, are leaving some paying  tens of millions of dollars more to their wester, creditors, OXFAM said on  19 August. The aid agency described the debt relief package which the World  Bank and the International Monetary Fund are offering Zambia, one of the  most impoverished countries in Africa, as a "fraud". Confidential papers  from the IMF obtained by OXFAM show that Zambia's interest payments are set  to rise from $136 million in 1999 to $325 million in 2002, even though it  is expected to enter the west's official debt relief programme in October  this year. The increase is due to payments falling due on a large IMF loan.  OXFAM has called for the fund to write off all the money owed to it by  Zambia over the next few years, instead of offering the country limited  debt relief.  (The Guardian, UK, 21 August 2000)  * Zimbabwe. Court invalidates mail-in votes  -  Zimbabwe's highest court  has invalidated all mail-in votes from June's parliamentary elections, most  of which were cast by government soldiers serving in the war in Congo RDC.  The ruling on the thousands of votes could overturn the result of at least  one legislative district one by ZANU-PF. A panel of five Supreme Court  judges ruled on 15 August that the military did not follow regulations in  submitting the soldiers' votes, including having them apply individually  for ballots instead of in batches.  (CNN, 17 August 2000)  * Zimbabwe. Sanctions sud-africaines?  -  L'Afrique du Sud a impos des  "sanctions officieuses" contre le Zimbabwe en interdisant toute vente  d'armes  ce pays, engag militairement aux cts de Kinshasa, a affirm le  17 aot un haut responsable militaire zimbabwen. "Aujourd'hui, nous ne  pouvons acheter aucune arme  l'Afrique du Sud en raison de notre  implication en RDC", a dclar  l'agence Ziana le directeur excutif des  Industries de dfense zimbabwennes, le colonel Tshinga Dube. Les  Sud-Africains n'ont pas annonc cet embargo officiellement, "mais les  consquences sont les mmes".  (La Libre Belgique, 18 aot 2000)  * Zimbabwe. 229 more farms targeted for seizure  -  On 18 August, President  Robert Mugabe's government said it would seize 229 more farms to resettle  blacks, bringing to 3,270 the number of white-owned farms targeted for its  controversial land reform program. Lands, Agriculture and Rural  Resettlement Minister Joseph Made said the properties were in advanced  stages of processing for gazetting, acquisition and resettlement. Farmers  can scrutinize the acquisition plan at the Lands Ministry's offices around  the country until September 17. "Any owner or occupier or any other person  who has an interest or right in the said land and who wishes to object to  the proposed compulsory acquisition may lodge the same in writing with my  ministry," Made said. Last week the government began settling black  families on 200 farms. The owners backed down from taking legal action. The  government plans to relocate peasants on about 100 farms in each of  Zimbabwe's eight provinces before the onset of the rainy season in about  two months' time. The country's main opposition Movement for Democratic for  Change (MDC) warned on 17 August that the government would plunge Zimbabwe  into worse chaos if it took illegal steps to implement its "fast track"  resettlement program. Mugabe says he plans to acquire nearly half the 12  million hectares (30 million acres) owned by about 4,500 white farmers.  Critics said that besides damaging agriculture by handing land over to  peasants ill-equipped to fully utilize it, the program will also displace  about 500,000 black farm workers and their families. (Update: On 21 August,  the veterans' leaders urged the government to speed up its "fast track"  land resettlement programme. On 22 August, the police began forcibly to  evict hundreds of veterans occupying white-owned farms. The next day  [23rd], the Government expressed its regrets over the eviction of  squatters).  (Reuters, 18 August 2000)  * Zimbabwe. Nouvelles saisies de fermes  -  Le 18 aot, le gouvernement  zimbabwen a annonc la saisie de 229 fermes de Blancs, portant  3.270 le  nombre d'exploitations expropries. Le principal parti d'opposition a  dnonc la poursuite de ce qu'Harare considre comme une rforme agraire.  "C'est une acclration vers le dsastre et le suicide conomique", a  dclar le porte-parole du Mouvement pour le changement dmocratique (MDC).  "Les gens vont tre amens au milieu de la brousse, sans routes d'accs,  sans infrastructure sociale, sans aucun service ou moyen de financement",  a-t-il dit, ajoutant qu'il s'agissait d'une rforme "stalinienne".  L'opposition, qui prne aussi une rforme agraire pour rparer les  ingalits foncires entre Blancs et Noirs, demande le rtablissement "de  la loi et de l'ordre" dans les quelque 1.600 fermes de Blancs occupes  depuis fvrier, parfois avec violence, par des anciens combattants. - Le 22  aot, ces anciens combattants ont d pour la premire fois battre en  retraite face  des actions particulirement dtermines de la police. Les  forces de scurit, habituellement accuses d'inaction voire de complicit  avec les vtrans, ont men des oprations sans prcdent  Chitungwiza et  Waterfalls, non loin de Harare, dtruisant plusieurs dizaines de campements  illgaux. Le ministre de l'Intrieur, John Nkomo, a ordonn  la police  d'tre plus ferme avec les anciens combattants "tant donn que la  redistribution des terres est en cours". Pendant la rforme agraire, a-t-il  prvenu, le gouvernement "ne tolrera aucune nouvelle manifestation sur les  fermes, ni aucune distribution illgale de terres". Le 23 aot, au soir,  aprs deux jours d'oprations policires d'une fermet sans prcdent, le  gouvernement a cd aux pressions des vtrans en "s'excusant" pour la  destruction des constructions illgales de certains d'entre eux. Dans un  communiqu, le gouvernement a "regrett" la faon dont la police a dtruit  lundi et mardi les huttes et constructions en parpaings riges sur sept  sites occups dans les alentours de la capitale.  (Libration et AFP,  France, 19-24 aot 2000)   _____________________________________________________________ WEEKLY NEWS  ISSUE of: 24-08-2000      PART #4/5  * Nigeria. Visite de Clinton: investissements et allgement de la dette  attendus  -  Le Nigeria, le pays le plus peupl d'Afrique accueille   partir de samedi 26 aot le prsident amricain Bill Clinton dans l'espoir  que cette visite attirera les investisseurs et mnera  l'allgement de sa  dette. M. Clinton, qui avait impos des sanctions au Nigeria en 1993 aprs  l'annulation des lections par les militaires au pouvoir, ne s'tait pas  rendu dans ce pays de plus de 120 millions d'habitants lors de sa dernire  tourne en Afrique. Washington considre le Nigeria comme l'un des Etats  les plus importants en transition vers la dmocratie et son prsident  dsormais civil, Olusegun Obasanjo, a rencontr M. Clinton  la Maison  blanche et l'a invit dans son pays. Abuja attend davantage qu'un soutien  verbal de M. Clinton  l'allgement de la dette du Nigeria, forte de 30  milliards de dollars. C'est une lourde charge pour un pays o le salaire  moyen tait estim  320 dollars mensuels l'an dernier. Outre les problmes  conomiques, les deux chefs d'Etat devraient aborder les questions  militaires et rgionales. Le Nigeria est la plus grande puissance d'Afrique  de l'ouest et Washington veut qu'Abuja joue un rle de gendarme dans la  rgion.  (D'aprs AFP, France, 24 aot 2000)  * Nigeria. Clinton's visit  -  President Clinton's three-day visit to  Nigeria (August 25- 27) is expected to be dominated by political issues.  They will discuss democracy and how to consolidate Nigeria's emerging  democracy through direct US aid, as well as strengthening the country's new  institutions. The two leaders will also discuss West African issues.  Clinton will address a joint session of Nigeria's National Assembly.  Security is being stepped up within the federal capital territory and its  environs. (ANB-BIA, Brussels, 24 August 2000)  * Rwanda. Children orphaned in the genocide must come home  -  Rwanda has  asked the United Nations to help trace and repatriate about 30,000 children  evacuated during the 1994 genocide and adopted in Europe. The appeal was  made by President Paul Kagame's wife, Janet, who on 14 August told a  conference on the rights of children that the orphans could not be adopted  outside the country without the consent of relatives and the  government.  (CNN, 15 August, 2000)  * Rwanda. Lawyer alleges deceit by UN tribunal  -  The very future of the  UN war crimes tribunal for Rwanda may again be thrown into question over  prosecution efforts to repair mistakes that last year led an appellate  court to order the release of a leading genocide suspect. A Canadian lawyer  for the suspect says she has uncovered evidence showing that the tribunal's  prosecutors tricked war crimes appeals court judges into reversing their  decision to free her client due to prosecution bungling. In a motion filed  before the judges, Carmelle Marchessault says the prosecutors used "false  documents" to make their case for the continued detention of Jean-Bosco  Barayagwiza, an alleged mastermind of hate propaganda during the 1994  slaughter of up to 800,000 people. She also alleges that the prosecution  office resorted to lies and deceit to win United States support for her  client's extradition from Cameroon, where he was arrested in April, 1996,  on international warrants. A tribunal official declined comment, saying the  case is now in court. He said that a response could be expected from the  prosecution office before the judges rule on the matter. Mr. Barayagwiza,  currently behind bars in the prison compound of the UN International  Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania, is founder of  Rwanda's now-defunct Radio Tlvision Libre des Mille Collines, which  incited the country's Hutus to eliminate the minority Tutsi population. He  also led an extremist Hutu party and was foreign policy advisor to the  Hutu-dominated interim government that presided over the genocide. But last  November, the appeals court judges ruled his civil rights had been violated  because tribunal prosecutors had been excessively tardy in formally  charging him. Running the prosecution office at the time was Louise Arbour,  now a justice with the Supreme Court of Canada. The judges' simultaneous  order to release Mr. Barayagwiza caused a storm of protest from the current  Tutsi-dominated Rwandan government, which ceased co-operating with the  court until a way could be found to keep Mr. Barayagwiza in jail for an  eventual trial. The withdrawal of co-operation threatened the very future  of the tribunal as trials of other suspects began to grind to a halt  because prosecutors were denied access to witnesses inside Rwanda. To have  the order reversed, the prosecutors hastily presented the judges with "new  facts" that allegedly showed Mr. Barayagwiza's rights had not been  compromised to the extent previously thought. The judges ruled in March  that Mr. Barayagwiza would remain incarcerated. But if the "new facts" are  found to be invalid, the judges would be faced with having to reinstate  their November order to release the suspect, a move that could spur Rwanda  to again cease co-operation with the tribunal.  (National Post, Canada, 18  August 2000)  * Rwanda/Ouganda. Pourparlers  -  Le 21 aot, le Rwanda a envoy en Ouganda  le secrtaire gnral du parti au pouvoir, Charles Murigande, et le  conseiller  la prsidence sur les questions de scurit, le major Emmanuel  Ndahiro, pour une runion de suivi du sommet de juin entre les prsidents  des deux pays. Les responsables ougandais ont dclar que la guerre en RDC  ferait l'objet de discussions, parmi d'autres sujets bilatraux.  (IRIN,  Nairobi, 22 aot 2000)  * Sngal. Pourparlers avec le MFDC  -  Le prsident sngalais Abdoulaye  Wade s'est dclar prt  mener des entretiens directs avec le Mouvement  des forces dmocratiques de Casamance (MFDC), la Gambie et la Guine  Bissau, pour mettre fin au conflit du sud du Sngal, a rapport le 22 aot  l'agence de presse officielle APS. Le 18 aot,  l'issue d'une visite  officielle d'une journe du prsident de Guine Bissau, Kumba Yala, M. Wade  a ritr son souhait de rsoudre la crise en Casamance sans prolonger la  guerre. "J'ai la conviction, a-t-il dit, que la Guine Bissau ne s'emploie  pas  prolonger le conflit et que les infiltrations d'hommes arms le long  de la frontire vont cesser, maintenant que l'on a introduit des  patrouilles militaires conjointes". M. Wade s'est dclar prt  tenir des  pourparlers avec les parties qui peuvent aider  mettre un terme  18  annes de guerre mene par le MFDC pour l'indpendance de la  Casamance.  (IRIN, Abidjan, 22 aot 2000)  * Senegal. Flow of Coca-Cola halted  -  The local affiliate in Senegal of  the multinational Coca-Cola Company has been ordered by the government to  temporarily halt production of two of its flagship brands, Coca-Cola and  Sprite. The authorities took the unprecedented action in response to a  public outcry after several bottles were found to be contaminated. The  minister for commerce said the ban will remain in force until  government-sponsored tests determine whether or not the brands are fit for  human consumption. The managers of the company involved say they are not to  blame and are pointing the finger at a rival company.  (BBC News, 23 August  2000)  * Sierra Leone. Tribunal spcial  -  Le 14 aot, le Conseil de scurit de  l'Onu a approuv la cration d'un tribunal spcial international pour juger  les crimes contre l'humanit en Sierra Leone. Il devra juger les principaux  coupables, ceux qui ont men les campagnes d'assassinats, de viols, de  mutilations, d'enlvements de femmes et d'enfants. Si aucun nom n'a t  mentionn, la rsolution vise sans nul doute les rebelles du Front  rvolutionnaire uni (RUF) et leur chef historique Foday Sankoh. L'accord de  Lom, qui incluait l'impunit des signataires, est donc bien dfinitivement  mort. Les diplomates occidentaux n'ayant pas voulu crer une cour du type  de tribunaux comme pour le Rwanda, jugs trop coteux et trop lents, le  tribunal pour la Sierra Leone est un compromis entre diverses expriences  dj menes en matire de justice pnale internationale. "Local", il sera  bas  Freetown ou dans un Etat voisin et appliquera partiellement le droit  sierra-lonais; "international", il illustre l'engagement de la communaut  des nations  juger des crimes universels et veiller  ce que les  coupables purgent leurs peines.  (D'aprs Le Monde, France, 16 aot 2000)  * Sierra Leone. War Crimes Court  -  14 August: The UN Security Council  takes the first steps toward setting up a war crimes court comprising both  Sierra Leonean and international jurists. Sierra Leone's justice minister  and attorney general, Solomon Berewa, says the "primary seat" of the court  will be in Sierra Leone. 15 August: Sierra Leone says rebel leader Foday  Sankoh will be tried for war crimes in the war crimes court to be set up by  the United Nations for atrocities committed after a civil war peace deal  was signed in July 1999. 22 August: The RUF says Foday Sankoh remains its  leader, with Issa Sesay heading the group in the interim. The RUF has also  appointed Issa Sesay to negotiate with ECOWAS in Mr Sankoh's  absence.  (ANB-BIA, Brussels, 22 August 2000)  * Sierra Leone. Fighting in various sectors  -  Since 17 August, MISNA  sources have reported fighting in the diamond district of Kono (eastern  province). The military forces faithful to the government of President  Kabbah, are supposedly attempting to uncover the strategic post of the  rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF). For the moment, it is impossible to  give an accurate death toll, though reports indicate a significant flow of  displaced moving towards Freetowm. People have reported bombing by a  government helicopter in the Kono area. The military situation is however  critical in the northern province, where the regular troops repelled a  rebel attack on the town of Kabala. (MISNA, Italy, 21 August 2000)  * Sierra Leone. Le RUF lche son chef  -  Dtenu au secret depuis la  mi-mai, Foday Sankoh a accept de ne plus tre "chef rebelle". Les  prsidents nigrian et malien, Obasanjo et Konar, lui ont forc la main,  ayant sur eux une lettre de destitution signe de tout l'tat-major du RUF.  Sankoh a alors lui-mme officialis sa mise  l'cart. Il y a dj un mois,  sous la pression du prsident librien Taylor, les cadres du RUF ont  dsavou leur chef historique et investi  sa place le gnral Issa Sesay,  leur ex-commandant militaire, mais sans l'annoncer au destitu. Pour le  RUF, le limogeage de Sankoh est le prix  payer pour revenir  la table de  ngociations. Il n'est cependant pas certain que le gnral Sesay sache se  faire obir par sa base.  (Libration, France, 23 aot 2000)  * Somalie. Nouveau Parlement  -  Le 13 aot, le premier Parlement somalien  depuis la chute du rgime de l'ancien prsident Mohamed Siad Barre en 1991,  a t inaugur  Arta (Djibouti). 142 dputs sur les 245 devant composer  le Parlement somalien de transition, ont prt le serment de fidlit  la  charte somalienne adopte par la Confrence de rconciliation nationale. Le  reste des lus prtera serment le 14 aot. Tous les lus ont t appels   prter serment par ordre alphabtique afin de ne plus faire de distinction  sur leur appartenance clanique. La Somalie, qui n'a plus de gouvernement  central, est livre aux factions rivales nationales depuis 1991. Le nouveau  Parlement, qui doit exercer le pouvoir lgislatif avant la tenue  d'lections gnrales pluralistes dans trois ans, aura la lourde charge  d'lire un nouveau prsident de la Somalie. La constitution du Parlement a  reu le large appui du prsident djiboutien Ismael Omar Guelleh.  L'initiative djiboutienne s'appuie sur la socit civile et la diaspora  somalienne, et veut diminuer le pouvoir des chefs de guerre pour restaurer  le pouvoir central en Somalie. Le 13 aot,  Mogadiscio, le chef de guerre  Hussein Mohamed Aidid a menac d'empcher la mise en oeuvre du processus de  rconciliation. - Le 20 aot, le nouveau Parlement a lu son prsident:  Abdallah Deerow Issaq, appartenant au clan Rahanwein-Mirifleh. Il devrait  bientt lire aussi le prsident somalien et les membres du gouvernement.  Des ententes tacites doivent en principe laisser  deux autres clans  importants, les Darod et les Hawiy, les postes de prsident de la  Rpublique et de Premier ministre.  (ANB-BIA, de sources diverses, 21 aot  2000)  * Somalia. UN urges support for Somali parliament  -  16 August: The UN  Security Council has called on Somalia's clan leaders not to obstruct the  work of the country's new parliament, the first since 1991. In a statement  issued after a closed-door meeting, council members urged all Somalis to  support the continuing peace process. And they reminded faction leaders  that undermining efforts to achieve an overall settlement in Somalia would  be unacceptable. The country's transitional parliament was inaugurated in  neighbouring Djibouti on 13 August. 20 August: The new Speaker of the  transitional National Assembly has been elected. He is Abdallah Deerow. He  received 156 votes from the 194 members present. 23 August: Days before the  expected election of Somalia's first president for over a decade,  Mogadishu's Islamic courts and business community release a joint statement  pledging their full support to the country's new assembly. Demonstrations  and public meetings backing the legislature, sitting in neighbouring  Djibouti, also take place throughout Somalia as leading Muslims call on all  Somalis to support their new government. The new transitional parliament  will begin voting on 25 August for the new President.  (ANB-BIA, Brussels,  24 August 2000)  * South Africa. Tutu returns home  -  On 17 August, ailing Archbishop  Desmond Tutu returned home thin and frail after two years in the United  States, saying he was withdrawing from public life. "I have come home to  sleep", he said. The Archbishop urged South Africans to be positive about  their country, saying it remained a beacon of hope for other countries  facing transition.  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