Vol 52 No 9 | SOMALIA Sinking the pirates 29th April 2011 Signs that piracy is getting worse are numerous and stark. They include higher ransoms, longer detentions of vessels and crews, and the use of more and often larger mother ships,...
Vol 52 No 9 | TANZANIA New brooms, old handles 29th April 2011 The President’s purge on grand corruption has not yet touched many of the suspect associates President Jakaya Kikwete has reshuffled the top levels of the governing Chama Cha Mapinduzi, in power now for 50 years, to forestall faction-fighting and prevent the party splitting apart. He...
Vol 52 No 9 | UGANDA Opposition works the walk 29th April 2011 Following Museveni’s easy re-election, the security forces are making mass arrests and Kampala’s streets resound with gunfire and tear gas A series of ‘Walk to Work’ protests against escalating food and fuel prices has caught the public’s imagination and the government is cracking down. Opposition leaders are under restrictions: Kizza Besigye,...
Vol 52 No 9 | UGANDA Taxation without legal representation 29th April 2011 The disputes over the Lake Albert oil licences and taxes which oil companies owe the government show no sign of ending. Heritage Oil should have paid tax to the government...
Vol 52 No 9 | SUDAN Gosh returns to the shadows 29th April 2011 The 26 April dismissal of Lieutenant General Salah Abdullah Mohamed ‘Gosh’ as Presidential Security Advisor has raised hopes in Sudan of a split in the National Congress Party. The NCP...
Vol 52 No 9 | KENYA Politics of prices 29th April 2011 Civic activists and trades unionists are mobilising in Nairobi and Mombasa against skyrocketing food and fuel prices. The Central Organisation for Trades Unions demands a 60% increase in the minimum wage...
Vol 52 No 8 | KENYA Six in the dock 15th April 2011 Suspects played the ethnic card during mass rallies at home before flying to the Netherlands to appear in court Six leading Kenyans faced, on 7-8 April, a kind of justice they are not used to at home. At the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, Judge...
Vol 52 No 8 | KENYAUNITED STATES Through the Wikihole 15th April 2011 The publication by WikiLeaks of the US Nairobi Embassy’s cables affords a unique and stark view of the country’s ruling figures As the International Criminal Court (ICC) starts to hear accusations against six senior Kenyans accused of links to the violence after the 2007 elections, a set of United...
Vol 52 No 8 | SUDANISRAEL Hosting Hamas 15th April 2011 Khartoum’s hopes of removal from the United States’ state sponsors of terrorism list took a knock on 5 April when Israel bombed a vehicle near Port Sudan, killing...
Vol 52 No 7 | SUDAN The scramble for the South 1st April 2011 A spate of secret and exploitative land deals may cause instability and more economic hardship in the new state Almost 10% of the land in South Sudan, due to win its formal independence on 9 July, has been sold or leased to foreign and local companies, according...