Vol 6 (AAC) No 6 | SUDANSOUTH SUDANCHINA Triangular relations 4th April 2013 China may be a weapon which Khartoum and Juba use in their conflicts but oil interests lock all three parties into a triangular relationship On 15 March, President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir sent a message of congratulations to China’s new President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang, who officially assumed...
Vol 54 No 7 | ETHIOPIA ‘With the thoughts of Meles’ 29th March 2013 The EPRDF conference was meant to show unity and quell doubts about the Growth and Transformation Plan Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has been unanimously confirmed as Chairman of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front for another two years. Nothing less was expected from a celebratory...
Vol 54 No 7 | UGANDA West divided on aid scandal 29th March 2013 Doubts remain as to whether President Museveni’s government has really ended the diversion of cash which prompted last year’s aid cuts Multilateral donors may be ready to resume aid payments by the end of the year, say sources in Kampala familiar with the internal debate among Western officials involved....
Vol 54 No 7 | SOUTH SUDANOIL AND GAS After they open the taps 29th March 2013 The 12 March deal between Juba and Khartoum now looks as if will restore South Sudan’s major source of government income – oil The Juba government ‘has given the order to resume oil production and companies are now making preparations to do so,’ a source close to the negotiations with Sudan...
Vol 54 No 7 | SOUTH SUDANOIL AND GAS What Juba gets from the oil deal 29th March 2013 Oil production from Unity State is expected to begin in ‘about three weeks’, said a source close to the deal on 12 March. Fields in Upper Nile, meanwhile,...
Vol 54 No 7 | SOMALIA Security worsens 29th March 2013 The head of the Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency, General Ahmed Moallim Fiqi, quit on 25 March amid growing fears about security in Mogadishu. The...
Vol 54 No 6 | KENYA The closest of shaves 15th March 2013 Prime Minister Raila Odinga is challenging Uhuru Kenyatta’s narrow win in court after a spate of technical failures at the electoral commission Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidential victory leaves Kenya still a divided nation. He achieved it by engineering a partnership between his fellow Kikuyu and the Kalenjin of his running mate,...
Vol 54 No 6 | KENYA Credibility of the IEBC under fire 15th March 2013 A detailed report claiming widespread incompetence and corruption at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission may prove another blow to its standing as it seeks to defend its...
Vol 54 No 6 | KENYA A very British coup 15th March 2013 The Jubilee Alliance plays the conspiracy card on the old colonial power and turns up trumps It was a warning shot from the usually emollient Charity Kaluki Ngilu when she read a statement in Nairobi on 6 March claiming that Britain’s envoy Christian Turner...
Vol 54 No 6 | SUDAN 'Cruel and inhumane' 15th March 2013 Khartoum has reacted angrily to criticism of the cross-amputation of Adam el Muthna, 30, who had his right hand and left foot cut off last month after being...