Vol 53 No 17 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
Economic crisis has fuelled anti-government protest in Sudan
but in South Sudan, it has fuelled hostility to outsiders, real and
imagined. Police in Jonglei State descend on aid agencies and
businesses...
The elders are warming to their constitutional role, while Kenya weighs up the taking of Kismayo
The 135 Somali elders whose role is to appoint a Constituent Assembly have responded to the warm international welcome they have received by showing they want to take...
Negotiations are likely to drag on, despite UN efforts to pressure both Juba and Khartoum and the threat of a return to all-out war
As the 2 August deadline imposed by the United Nations Security Council loomed, Khartoum and Juba vied to be seen as the least obstructive government at their...
The killing of several student demonstrators in Nyala, the South Darfur capital, on 31 July has given Sudan's opposition its martyrs. That was what Khartoum had wanted to...
The most anticipated literary event in Nairobi in years – the launch of Miguna Miguna's tell-all about his five-year working relationship with Prime Minister Raila Odinga and their...
The trial for theft of Tanzania's former Ambassador in Rome, Costa Ricky Mahalu, has been postponed to 9 August. The alleged offence was committed in 2002 and...
Those attending the African Union summit in Addis Ababa on 14-16 July had their own theories for the riot police surrounding them and the generally heavy...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 10 |
- SEYCHELLES
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Seychelles
Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Paul Adam was in South Korea in early July. He attended his country’s national day at the Expo 2012 in Yeosu before meeting his counterpart,...
The mutineers hold the cards and are setting the agenda: they may strike
Goma soon
Although six governments signed an agreement in Addis Ababa on 15 July to promote security in eastern Congo-Kinshasa, rebels still threaten Goma, the base of the United Nations...
Vol 53 No 15 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
Despite the high hopes of the nearly 99% of electors who voted for secession in the 2011 referendum, few outsiders expected South Sudan’s transition to Independence to go smoothly. Some – including many journalists – sourly predicted the world’s ‘first pre-failed state’. However, the prospect of a substantial ‘peace dividend’, with development driven by oil exports and substantial post-war reconstruction assistance, held out the promise of a better future for its war-ravaged and poverty-stricken people. A year later, this promise has clearly not materialised.
At Independence in July 2011, South Sudan had an estimated per capita gross domestic product of over US$1,500, almost twice that of Kenya. The government’s 2011 budget...