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WEEKLY NEWS - ISSUE OF 23/02/1996 - PART 1/


* Africa/World Bank. Dividing Africa
The World Bank is abuzz with speculation about reorganisation
following an internal memo on 8 February confirming the appointment
of two new Vice-Presidents for its Africa Region. Zimbabwe's
Callisto E. Madavo, a Bank employee since 1970 and former head of
the Eastern Africa Department, heads one of the three South-East
Asia Departments. France's Jean-Louis Sarbib, an ex-lecturer and
Africa Department veteran of 16 years, is in charge of Western
Africa; he is recognised for handling tactfully the sensitive 1994
CFA franc devaluation. Madavo now has responsibility for Southern
and East Africa, with a brief to strengthen links with African and
international bodies; Sarbib's area is West and Central Africa and
the Sahel.(...)
(Africa Confidential, U.K., 16 February 1996)

* Algerie. Levee du couvre-feu.
Les autorites algeriennes ont annonce, dimanche 18 fevrier, que la
fete de l'Aid el-Fitr, marquant la fin du mois de jeune du ramadan,
marquera aussi la fin du couvre-feu. Celui-ci, de minuit a 04
heures, avait ete instaure en decembre 1992 dans sept departements
de l'Algerois, puis etendu a trois autres. L'etat d'urgence reste
toutefois en vigueur. Le mois dernier, les autorites avaient deja
leve temporairement le couvre-feu durant le ramadan, en raison de
la "maitrise de la situation securitaire". Le ramadan a toutefois
ete sanglant. Le meme jour, encore, vers 18h 50 locales, une
voiture piegee a explose dans la cite d'Ain-Naadja, a Alger, tuant
quatre personnes et en blessant 18 autres. Un peu plus tard, une
autre voiture a explose a Ain-Taya, a l'est de la capitale, tuant
huit personnes et en blessant 14 autres. Lundi, jour de l'Aid el-
Fitr, le president Liamine Zeroual promettait "l'elimination
definitive" des groupes islamistes armes et la "reconciliation
nationale".
(ANB-BIA, de sources diverses, 22 fevrier 1996)

* Angola. Les combattants dans les cantonnements
Plus de 14.000 combattants de l'UNITA (Union nationale pour
l'independance totale de l'Angola) de Jonas Savimbi ont ete
cantonnes dans les centres de regroupement sous controle de la
Mission de verification des Nations unies en Angola (Unavem III),
selon une depeche de l'agence gouvernementale Angop, publiee
vendredi 16 fevrier. Quatre centres accueillent les combattants de
Jonas Savimbi et quatre autres doivent ouvrir la semaine prochaine.
Lors de la creation de l'Unavem III, l'Unita s'etait engagee a
demobiliser 16.500 combattants avant le 8 fevrier. A cette date, le
conseil de securite devait renouveler le mandat de l'Unavem pour
six mois. Pour marquer son impatience face aux retards pris dans
les operations de demobilisation, le conseil n'a proroge ce mandat
que de trois mois. Les effectifs totaux de l'Unita s'eleveraient a
63.000 hommes, dont une partie doit etre integree a l'armee
nationale et les autres rendus a la vie civile. Les combattants
rebelles se plaignent des conditions de vie dans les centres de
cantonnement, affirmant que certains des leurs sont morts dans le
camp de Vila Nova en raison des conditions d'hygiene deplorables
qui y regnent.
(D'apres Le Monde, France, 19 fevrier 1996)

* Burundi. Les accrocs continuent
On commence a admettre officiellement qu'il y a eu des accrocs,
dans le nord, surtout dans les communes de Tangara (Ngozi) et de
Bugendana (Gitega). L'armee parle de 15 morts; mais des
observateurs locaux avancent le chiffre de 200. Au niveau officiel
on parle aussi de la bataille de Kiganda (Muramvya), la semaine
derniere, qui aurait fait 30 morts, selon l'armee, et une centaine
selon les observateurs locaux. Dimanche 18 fevrier, au matin, on a
entendu des coups d'artillerie du cote de Gasenyi, sur les collines
entourant Kamenge. L'armee parle de 6 morts. Une soixantaine de
jeunes auraient ete arretes et embarques pour le camp militaire de
Ngagara.
(ANB-BIA, de sources diverses, 20 fevrier 1996)

* Burundi. Une force multinationale.
Le secretaire general des Nations unies, l'Egyptien Boutros-Ghali,
est revenu sur l'idee d'une force d'intervention armee pour le
Burundi, en proie a la guerre civile. Il a propose, vendredi 17
fevrier, une force de 25.000 hommes en alerte dans leurs pays
respectifs et prets a intervenir pour "empecher les massacres,
assurer la securite des refugies, des personnes deplacees et des
civils, proteger les infrastructures economiques du pays". Mais le
Premier ministre burundais, Antoine Nduwayo, en visite au Danemark,
a reaffirme, mercredi 21 fevrier, son opposition a cette
proposition. En assurant que "la population et l'armee du Burundi
s'opposeront a toute intervention militaire de l'ONU", il a precise
que "une intervention exterieure serait percue comme une occupation
etrangere".
(ANB-BIA, de sources diverses, 22 fevrier 1996)

* Egypte. Varia
L'Organisation egyptienne des droits de l'homme (OEDH) revele, dans
un rapport rendu public mercredi 14 fevrier, que pres de 8.000
personnes ont ete detenues arbitrairement en Egypte de 1992 a 1995.
L'OEDH denonce egalement l'usage de la "torture", responsable,
selon elle, de la mort "d'au moins quarante personnes". Par
ailleurs, le porte-parole des Freres musulmans s'est oppose, lundi
19 fevrier, dans le quotidien saoudien Al Hayat, a l'initiative
prise par des membres du mouvement de creer un parti politique. Le
dirigeant des Freres, Moustapha Machehour, avait pourtant avance
cette idee lors de sa designation, le 21 janvier. Combattue par le
pouvoir, la confrerie est interdite depuis 1954, mais toleree
depuis 1976.
(Le Monde, France, 16 et 21 fevrier 1996)

* Equatorial Guinea. "Obiang -- today, tomorrow and always"
President Teodoro Obiang has warned that any one who does not vote
for him in the 25 February presidential election is "a bastard". In
Equatorial Guinea this can mean a dead bastard, or one with broken
legs or no job. Blocks of voters have disappeared from the
electoral role, and opposition candidates have given up and locked
themselves in their offices. In the 28 years since independence
from Spain, tens of thousands of people have been arbitrarily
murdered, jailed and tortured with a depravity to rival Idi Amin.
A third of the people has fled the country. About 250,000 remain,
divided between two small islands and the only patch of Spanish-
speaking African mainland south of the Sahara. But President Obiang
has clearly wearied of the democratic charade. Addressing an
election rally in Bata this week, surrounded by posters proclaiming
"Obiang -- today, tomorrow and always", he said it was time to
forget about any more ballots.
(The Guardian, U.K., 23 February 1996)

* Ethiopia. Trial adjourned
On 13 February, the trial of Ethiopia's former Marxist rulers was
adjourned for nearly two months because the prosecution was not
ready after a break of five months. "We have tried very hard to
fulfil our obligation to be ready to open our case today. But we
are not ready", Chief Special Prosecutor Girma Wakjiera told the
Addis Ababa court. "We request the honourable court to allow us one
more adjournment", he said, citing shortage of staff and too much
work as reasons for the delay. The three-judge panel agreed to the
prosecution request and adjourned the trial until 4 April, giving
the absence of two of the defendants due to sickness as another
reason.
(AFJN, Washington, 13 February 1996)

* Gabon. Return of the Ebola virus
Thirteen people have died in Gabon from the highly infectious Ebola
virus after a dead chimpanzee was skinned for a feast in a remote
village, said the World Health Organisation (WHO) on 19 February.
The WHO said scientists in Paris and at a research centre in Gabon
had formally confirmed the toll, adding that seven people infected
with the virus had been admitted to hospital in the town of
Makokou. It said seven others were under observation at the
hospital, and an international team of doctors was trying to trace
people who had helped to take the sick to Makokou, capital of the
province where the village, Mayibout II, is located. WHO officials
indicated last week they had no doubt Ebola, which is transmitted
through a victim's blood or other body fluids and kills at least
seven in every ten people it infects, was involved.
The Independent, U.K., 20 February 1996)

* Kenya. 21 charged
Kenya's The East African, reports that as widely anticipated,
police investigations in several government departments culminated
in 21 senior port and tax officials being charged with cheating the
government out of revenue by allowing 737 vehicles to enter the
country duty free. The officials, including the Kenya Ports
Authority managing director, the general operations manager and an
assistant commissioner for customs and excise in the south zone,
appeared before the Mombasa senior principal magistrate and denied
the charges. They were granted a bond of Sh5 million each and two
sureties of a similar amount, which only Mr Simeon Mkalla, the
Kenya Ports Authority managing director and a few others were able
to raise by last week.
(The East African, Kenya, 19-25 February 1996)

* Libya. Gaddafi to visit South Africa
On 15 January, the official Libyan news agency JANA reported that
South Africa's president Nelson Mandela has telephoned Colonel
Gaddafi and invited him to visit South Africa. JANA said that
Gaddafi thanked Mandela for the invitation, which he accepted. The
report did not give a date for the visit. Mandela "confirmed the
invitation (to Gaddafi) to visit South Africa to welcome him
(there) in consideration for the role played by the leader of the
Revolution and the unlimited support of Libya to the South African
people's fight until its victory and the end of racial
discrimination", it said.
(AFJN, Washington, 15 February 1996)

* Libye. Vers la normalisation
Selon l'agence catholique suisse Apic, le Saint-Siege souhaiterait
elargir ses contacts avec la Libye et etablir d'ici deux ans avec
ce pays des relations diplomatiques completes. Mgr. Jose Sebastian
Laboa, prononce apostolique en Algerie charge du contact avec
Tripoli, pourrait bientot etre nomme nonce en Libye.
(La Croix, France, 19 fevrier 1996)

* Maroc. Un tunnel entre l'Afrique et l'Europe
Si le ministre des transports espagnol, Jose Borrell, dit vrai, en
l'an 2010 l'Afrique sera directement reliee a l'Europe. Le trait
d'union se fera a Gilbraltar, par un tunnel de 28 kilometres creuse
sous le detroit. La decision a ete prise et annoncee recemment lors
de la visite du president Felipe Gonzalez au roi Hassan II. Les
travaux devraient commencer vers la fin de 1997. Le trace choisi
n'empruntera pas le passage le plus etroit, en raison de la trop
grande profondeur. Il est situe plus a l'ouest et plongera
neanmoins a 400 metres sous le niveau de la mer, a une centaine de
metres au-dessous du fond. Ce qui en fera le tunnel le plus profond
du monde. Le tunnel sera uniquement ferroviaire et comportera deux
galeries situees de part et d'autre d'une voie de service qui sera
realisee en premier, a titre d'experience. Ce projet permettrait de
resoudre l'epineux probleme du retour au pays des Marocains qui,
chaque ete, doivent patienter de longues journees dans les files
d'attente avant de passer de l'autre cote. Au-dela de cette
solution, la jonction de deux continents a incontestablement une
valeur de symbole.
(D'apres M. B.-R., Le Monde, France 19 fevrier 1996)

* Maroc. Degradation des droits de l'homme
L'Association marocaine des droits de l'homme (AMDH) a denonce,
samedi 17 fevrier, a Rabat, lors  de la presentation de son rapport
annuel, la "degradation" de la situation des droits de l'homme au
Maroc, ou "torture" et "abus de pouvoir" ont "encore cours".
L'association a denombre, pour la seule annee 1995, treize "morts
suspectes" survenues "pendant des detentions preventives". Les
seuls a n'etre jamais inquietes sont les "agents d'autorite", qui
"a l'exception de quelques cas tres rares", ne sont "jamais deferes
devant la justice". Le sort de plusieurs dizaines de personnes,
disparues au debut des annees 70, n'a "toujours pas ete elucide"
par les autorites, ajoute l'association. Quant a la liberte
d'expression, elle serait, elle aussi, en "nette regression", comme
en temoignent les douze dossiers, relatifs a l'interdiction de
manifestations culturelles ou politiques, traites par l'AMDH. Le
president de l'association, Abderrahmane Benamar, a pourtant releve
quelques points positifs, comme "la liberation de detenus
politiques et d'ex-disparus, une amelioration du code du statut
personnel et un progres dans la legislation commerciale".
(D'apres Le Monde, France, 20 fevrier 1996)

* Mozambique. Luxury resort
On 13 February, a US tycoon hoping to turn a Mozambican wilderness
into a $800 million luxury holiday resort and gamepark said he was
getting near to a deal. Multi-millionaire James Ulysses Blanchard
III told a news conference that "We are very close to getting an
agreement and think the Mozambican government is moving close to
it". His plan to offer high class "eco-tourism" for visitors who
could own their own holiday home, watch big game and sun themselves
on sandy beaches has ruffled the feathers of one of South Africa's
major companies, paper maker Sappi Ltd. To make room for Blanchard,
Mozambique scrapped a joint venture with Sappi to plant some 30,000
hectares of fast-growing eucalyptus in the same area, south of the
capital Maputo.
(AFJN, Washington, 13 February 1996)

* Niger. La francophonie ne rompt pas les ponts
Lors de la 7eme conference ministerielle de la francophonie, tenue
a Bordeaux les 16 et 17 fevrier, la France, le Canada et le Quebec
entendaient adopter une position tres dure contre le Niger.
L'annonce, dans la nuit du 16 au 17 fevrier, d'un engagement de la
junte sur l'acceleration du processus de retour a la vie
democratique a quelque peu change la donne. Cette "nouvelle etape
nous oblige a maintenir le dialogue, contrairement a ce que nous
voulions faire au depart", a declare Margie Sudre, secretaire
d'Etat chargee de la francophonie, qui a laisse entendre que le
Conseil permanent de la francophonie veillera au respect de ce
calendrier par le biais d'une mission d'observation et par une
assistance constitutionnelle et judiciaire. Par ailleurs une action
commando aurait ete dejouee par les autorites militaires qui ont
pris le pouvoir le 27 janvier, a annonce, mercredi 14 fevrier, le
ministre de l'interieur de la junte. Sept personnes, dont un ancien
ministre de l'interieur, Ousmane Oumarou, toutes proches du chef de
l'Etat depose le 27 janvier, Mahamane Ousmane, ont ete arretees
apres que des armes eurent ete decouvertes a leur domicile.
(D'apres Le Monde, France, 16 et 21 fevrier 1996)

* Nigeria. Danger cards
Ogoni Rally: The Deputy President of the Movement for the Survival
of the Ogoni people (MOSOP), Mr Ledun Mitee, has presented to the
Press, sixty names of Ogonis and two pictures of corpses of people,
he claimed were either killed, wounded or detained during 4 January
demonstrations this year. Sorrow in Abacha family: It all started
with the death of Sani Abacha's cousin. Next the military leader's
closest sister, Hajia Fatima died. Then one of his son's, a student
at the Defence Academy narrowly escaped death after he crashed his
car into a parked lorry. He sustained serious injuries and it is
feared he may never walk again. On 17 January, the General's first
son, Ibrahim Abacha, died in a plane crash. Archbishop attacked: On
29 January, the Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Dr. Anthony
Okogie, was attacked by a woman in Holy Cross Cathedral, Lagos
after morning Mass. March election rejected: The government is
warming to organising local elections in March, this year, but a
number of people and groups reject this poll. The president of the
Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) says: "We do not have the
resources for such a wasteful and time-consuming exercise. Also, is
the government going to use this election exercise to install its
own pawns at grassroots level?"
(OC Press, Nigeria, February 1996)

* Rwanda. Les proces nationaux vont debuter
Les premiers proces des auteurs du genocide de 1994 vont commencer
au Rwanda "fin mars ou debut avril", a annonce a Kigali le Premier
ministre Pierre-Celestin Rwigema. M. Rwigema, Hutu, membre du
Mouvement democrate republicain (MDR), a annonce samedi 17 fevrier
l'ouverture des proces au Rwanda, soulignant que les accuses
comparaitront devant des jurys populaires, afin "d'associer la
population a l'exercice de la justice" et de "faciliter ainsi la
reconciliation nationale". Le gouvernement avait decide vendredi la
mise en place de "chambres specialisees" au sein des tribunaux de
premiere instance ou des cours d'appel pour juger les
"genocidaires". Selon M. Rwigema, "la specificite des crimes commis
au Rwanda" impose de "recourir a une juridiction specialisee".
Devant l'ampleur de la tache, Kigali a egalement adopte le principe
de "jugements rapides", avec simplification des procedures
judiciaires et administratives. Pour sa part, le Tribunal penal
international pour le Rwanda (TPR), cree par l'ONU en 1994, a
indique qu'il allait publier ce lundi a Arusha (Tanzanie) ou il a
son siege, de nouveaux actes d'accusation contre des responsables
presumes du genocide. Vendredi, le vice-president rwandais, le
general Kagame, avait juge honteux que le TPR n'ait pas encore
commence de proces, affirmant qu'il y avait derriere le procureur
Goldstone "des forces qui ne veulent pas que les auteurs du
genocide soient juges".
(D'apres La Libre Belgique, 19 fevrier 1996)

* Rwanda. UN tribunal
The United Nations tribunal investigating genocide in Rwanda
announced on 19 February that two Rwandans held in Zambia were
being indicted for killing up to one million Tutsis and allied
moderate Hutus in 1994. The men were named as Georges Rutaganda, a
businessman and vice-president for the interahamwe militia and Jean
Paul Akayesu, a former mayor of Taba commune in the central town of
Gitarama. The tribunal, based in the norther Tanzanian town of
Arusha, charged Mr Rutaganda and Mr Akayesu with genocide and other
crimes against humanity.
(The Guardian, U.K., 20 February 1996)

* Rwanda. Amnesty et le retour des refugies
Dans un long document publie mardi 20 fevrier, Amnesty
International tente de faire le tour de la question cruciale des
refugies dans la region des Grands Lacs. Etudiant a la fois les
situations burundaise et rwandaise, et le rapport des forces a
l'interieur des camps, particulierement au Zaire, l'organisation de
defense des droits de l'homme denonce a la fois les executions
sommaires et les arrestations arbitraires commises par les armees
burundaise et rwandaise, les coups de main des guerillas hutues
dans ces deux pays, qui font de nombreuses victimes chez les
civils, et la terreur que font regner les extremistes hutus dans
les camps au Zaire. En ce qui concerne la situation interieure du
Rwanda, la mission d'Amnesty International y discerne a la fois
"l'espoir, la bonne volonte, le soupcon et la peur". [N.B. de BIA -
Selon une source du HCR et une autre d'une organisation rwandaise
pour les droits de l'homme, "dans l'ensemble", les refugies rentres
au Rwanda ont ete reinstalles dans des conditions correctes. Selon
le Haut commissaire aux droits de l'homme de l'Onu, a Kigali, sur
61.640 refugies rentres entre le 19 aout 95 et le 30 novembre 95,
621 d'entre eux ont ete arretes, dont 314 sur accusation de
genocide. Ces chiffres ne concernent que les personnes rentrees en
groupe. -d'apres M.-F. C., La Libre B., 23 fevr 96].
(Le Monde, France, 21 fevrier 1996)

* South Africa. Census costs
South Africa's first post-apartheid census in October will cost
340m rand the government said. The black majority has never
cooperated fully in previous censuses -- black townships were
counted on the basis of aerial photographs in 1991 -- and the
October count could alter the assumed demographics of South African
society.
(The Independent, U.K., 13 February 1996)

* South Africa. Currency runs wild
A security guards mishap which sparked the worst run on the rand in
history has left South Africa contemplating the apparent thinness
of the veneer that is the country's political success story. The
currency was struggling to maintain its equilibrium after three
days of panic on the money market apparently triggered by the sight
of an ambulance with flashing lights outside President Mandela's
Cape Town office on 16 February. It transpired that the ambulance
was called to the assistance of a security official who had slipped
on a stair and injured himself. But, despite personal assurances
from the presidency that Mr Mandela was alive and well, the shock
waves from the sighting sent the rand plummeting on 19 February,
and were still being felt when the markets closed on 20 February.
The run, while precipitated by a false alarm, appears to have been
sustained by several factors. These included speculation about
government plans to lift exchange and control restrictions, and
perceptions that the rand was over-valued.
(The Guardian, U.K., 21 February 1996)

* Sudan. Archbishop stopped at airport
On 18 February 1996, the Archbishop of Juba, Paolino Lukundu Loro,
was stopped by the security at Khartoum while boarding his flight
to Italy, via Amsterdam, and driven out of the airport, as reported
by eye-witnesses. Other sources of information reported that the
Archbishop was driven to his house in Khartoum by the same security
personnel. No explanation has been offered of the incident so far.
It is not the first time the security personnel at the airport in
Khartoum have intervened in such a fashion. In February 1995, the
Sudan Catholic Bishop's Conference addressed the Government of
Khartoum with a document protesting the "continuous and frequent
harassment" of church personnel "including bishops" by the security
personnel.
(Comboni Press Network, Rome, 18 February 1996)

* Tanzania. Zanzibar: Nyerere urged to step in
Tanzanian opposition leaders have urged former president Julius
Nyerere to help find solutions for problems currently facing
Zanzibar before things worsen. The leaders said the two Islands of
Unguja and Pemba were divided politically, and unless the situation
was arrested, civil war might erupt in the islands. In a joint
statement released on 11 February, Civic United Front Chairman Seif
Sharif Hamad; NCCR-Mageuzi's Augustine Mrema; and Edwin Mtei of
CHADEMA said Zanzibar was being prepared as a battlefield. Nyerere
once forced the then president of Zanzibar, Aboud Jumbe, to resign
in the late 1980s. he again solved the conflict in the Island when
it joined the Organisation of Islamic Conference's in 1991.
(East African Standard, Kenya, 14 February 1996)

* Uganda. Election preparations found wanting
Kenya-based news papers make the following remarks about Uganda's
forthcoming elections: The Economic Review in its 19-25 February
issue says: "Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni's National
Resistance Movement government may be happy with the pace of events
as Uganda approaches its first general elections in 15 years. But
the Western world certainly is not. The British High Commissioner
in Uganda warned that further delays would threaten aid for
Uganda's polls. The East African Chronicle in its issue of 23
February notes that Uganda could fail to hold elections on time if
parliament does not speed up debate on the electoral laws. The East
African (19-25 February) says it is hard to understand why it is
taking so long for the Kampala parliament to push through the
necessary legislation setting a date for the nation's promised
parliamentary and presidential polls. The Daily Nation remarks that
anxiety and concern has been growing among politicians in Kampala
including the British High Commissioner to Kampala and other
European donors over the election date.
(ANB-BIA, Brussels, 22 February 1996)

* Zaire. HCR a l'arret, RDR interdit
Le gouvernement zairois a annonce le 21 fevrier qu'il a decide de
"l'arret des activites du HCR (Haut-Commissariat des Nations unies
aux refugies) et des ONG dans les camps a fermer" de Kibumba et
Nyangezi-Mulwa, dans l'est du Zaire, ou vivent plus de 220.000
refugies rwandais hutus. Dans un communique "au nom du
gouvernement", le vice-premier ministre zairois charge des Affaires
etrangeres ajoute que Kinshasa a interdit toute activite dans les
camps a "certaines agences humanitaires qui s'illustrent par leur
hostilite au rapatriement" des refugies. Dans un autre communique,
le gouvernement annonce l'interdiction d'activite du Rassemblement
pour le retour et la democratie au Rwanda (RDR), la principale
organisation de refugies hutus d'activite en Tanzanie, accuse de
mener une propagande contre le rapatriement au Rwanda des refugies.
Le HCR toutefois a declare, jeudi 22, qu'il poursuivait normalement
son travail d'assistance dans les camps de refugies rwandais au
Zaire. N'ayant recu aucun message du gouvernement zairois, le HCR
ne peut faire aucun commentaire.
(Le Soir, Belgique, 22-23 fevrier 1996)


= NOUS VOUS SIGNALONS... -- ARTICLES AVAILABLE
= MEDIA
Title: "Probing Information Pathways"
Source: International Documentation and Communication Centre
(IDOC). 4/95 (Just arrived at ANB-BIA!)
Description: Various Papers on Media in Africa. e.g "Youth on the
new African Media Scene" (with special reference to Senegal). "The
Farm Radio Network" (with special reference to Southern Africa).
"Information for change" -- a South African perspective. "Ethnic
Conflict and the Media: the case of Rwanda".

= LANDMINES
Title: The Use of Landmines
Source: Washington Office on Africa, 16 February 1996
Description: The above title is in fact two documents. The first is
a report on the Review Conferences of States party to the 1980
Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. The second is a Press
Release concerning the 26 January signing into law by President
Clinton of a one-year moratorium on the use of anti-personnel
landmines by US forces.

= ISLAM
Titre: Enquete sur la deuxieme religion de France - DOSSIER
Source: Le nouvel observateur, France, 22 fevrier 1996
Description: 9 pages A4. Un dossier sur l'islam en France, qui,
pour beaucoup, reste une religion mal acceptee. Partout, comment
l'aider a refuser le pire: la derive islamique? Quelques titres:
- Ce que veulent les musulmans (Claude Weill)
- La laicite, toute la laicite! (Soheib Ben Cheikh)
- L'islam moderne naitra en France (Jamel Eddine Bencheikh)