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Eye on Africa Re-Launched This Week
"One-Stop Shopping" Offers New, Better Options for Readers

(WASHINGTON, December 21, 1999) --- Eye on Africa, a monthly newsletter
which began publication on-line last March (as http://www.EyeOnAfrica.com),
will be re-launched later this week with new features that will make the
website easier to use for both new and old readers.

Eye on Africa provides timely critical analysis of political and economic
developments and trends across sub-Saharan Africa. It attempts to bridge the
gaps between the reporting of breaking news and current events and
long-term, academic research.

Found at the website http://www.EyeOnAfrica.com, Eye on Africa is assembled
by a team of reporters and editors with decades of experience in African
politics, diplomacy, and analysis.  The managing editor is former U.S.
Foreign Service Officer Joseph L. Sala, while contributions are made by
writers throughout Africa and world capitals -- including London, Moscow,
Ottawa, and Paris -- will be featured in each monthly issue.

The new changes, made with the assistance of the web sites designers at AB
Internet, will allow readers to search the archives of past issues; will
provide options for purchasing subscriptions in both e-mail and hard-copy
formats; and will permit visitors to purchase single articles according to
their needs.  Subscriptions to Eye on Africa are $250 per year (e-mail
only); $325 per year (e-mail and hard-copy); or $375 for overseas
subscriptions.  Payments can be made by American Express, Discover,
Mastercard, or Visa.

Eye on Africa's mission statement explains that "fundamental to the
newsletter's approach will be analysis based on an examination of substance,
process, and personality -- the core components of policy-making."

Each issue of Eye on Africa is composed of three types of articles --
features, snippets, and "radar scope," including biographic profiles.
"Features" are major analytical pieces with a focus on developments and
trends of current import.  "Snippets" are more predictive, providing setting
and background to breaking news indicating possible consequences.
Additionally, Eye on Africa includes "Radar Scope," alerts about emerging
trends and underreported news; "biographic profiles" focus on prominent
policy-makers, both in government and the private sector, with a particular
emphasis on the individual's political or economic philosophy.

Eye on Africa also includes several pages of links to Africa-related
websites in the United States, Africa, and other countries; these links
include universities, newspapers and magazines, think-tanks, and official
government websites.  "We provide," says managing editor Joseph Sala,
"one-stop shopping for anyone interested in African news and information,
from veteran diplomats in the field to high-school students working on term
papers, to journalists working on deadline while reporting a big story."

The December 1999 issue of Eye on Africa features articles on the political
situation in C�te d'Ivoire; South African President Thabo Mbeki's health
status; prospects for a peace accord in Sierra Leone; the imposition of
Islamic law in parts of Nigeria; election campaign violence in Mozambique;
the arrest (in Cameroon) of alleged Equatorial Guinean coup plotters;
election results from Botswana; and investigations into a troubled diamond
mine in South Africa -- among several others.

Eye on Africa is published monthly (12 issues) by Aurora Australis
Publishing Co., Inc.  For more information, write to P.O. Box 66460,
Washington, DC 20035, telephone 202-296-4000, fax 202-862-5500, or send
e-mail to info@eyeonafrica.com.

To visit Eye on Africa, point your browser to http://www.eyeonafrica.com.

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