Vol 52 No 11 | SUDAN Long memories in Abyei 27th May 2011 1820: Official start of Southern liberation struggle, as just proclaimed by Government of South Sudan (GOSS); shows how important history is in Sudan
Vol 52 No 11 | RWANDA Prosperity and paranoia 27th May 2011 Sinister rumours and grenade attacks coexist with the government’s proud economic record Weapons at the ready, soldiers and police line the main roads out of Kigali in the afternoons. Few of President Paul Kagame’s critics speak out within Rwanda (AC...
Vol 52 No 11 | BURUNDI All the way down 27th May 2011 Burundi has a few things in common with Rwanda. One is United States’ gratitude for its soldiers’ work in peacekeeping: Rwandans serve in Darfur, Sudan, and Burundians in...
Vol 52 No 11 | DJIBOUTISUDAN Shaky Guelleh snubs ICC 27th May 2011 In the face of growing internal opposition to his arbitrary rule and stolen elections, President Ismail Omar Guelleh has been strengthening relations with Sudan (AC Vol 52 No...
Vol 52 No 11 | EGYPTETHIOPIA Blue Nile blues 27th May 2011 Egypt’s revolution seems to have boosted prospects for a settlement with Ethiopia over the Nile waters dispute. Cairo’s interim Prime Minister, Essam Abdel Aziz Sharaf, made a cordial...
Vol 52 No 11 | KENYABRITAIN Bellingham brings warrants 27th May 2011 Britain’s Africa Minister Henry Bellingham was in Nairobi ‘promoting British interests’, officials said. However, few expected that to include delivering extradition warrants for two prominent Kenyans for fraud...
Vol 52 No 10 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Shouting insults 13th May 2011 As Eritrea looks forward to serious earnings from gold, the old quarrel with Ethiopia is heating up again After more than a decade complaining that they are the wronged party, top Ethiopian officials busily explain their new campaign to overthrow the neighbouring regime of President Issayas...
Vol 52 No 10 | SUDAN Indicted war criminal fights election 13th May 2011 Khartoum’s ruling party tries to hold on to its base in Kordofan, a springboard for operations in Abyei and the South It was clear that Ahmed Mohamed Haroun had lost his bid to be elected Governor of Southern Kordofan when the National Congress Party sent Presidential Assistant Nafi’e Ali...
Vol 52 No 10 | SUDAN Usama’s quiet friends in Khartoum 13th May 2011 The May Day killing of Usama bin Laden passed virtually unmentioned by a National Congress Party government that worked hand-in-glove with him when he lived in Sudan in...
Vol 52 No 10 | UGANDA Two leaders, two parties 13th May 2011 President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni spent months – and US$1.3 million – planning his inauguration on 12 May only for a gatecrasher to spoil the party. While fanfares sounded...