Vol 52 No 4 | SUDAN Militia massacres 18th February 2011 The death of perhaps 200 people this month, mainly civilian returnees, in attacks in Jonglei State, Southern Sudan, show the havoc that one militia can wreak. This militia...
Vol 52 No 3 | SUDAN Through the looking glass 4th February 2011 There are growing concerns about the two million Southerners living in the north after last month's vote for separation Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of Africa's newest state in July, was in demand at the 24-31 January African Union summit in Addis Ababa. In the AU conference centre, he was...
Vol 52 No 3 | SUDAN Militia attacks on the border 4th February 2011 Brutal attacks last month by armed militias on convoys of Southern Sudanese returning from the North show the security crisis in the borderlands and the danger of war over Abyei...
Vol 52 No 3 | ETHIOPIA A five-year exit plan 4th February 2011 As democracy activists pressure entrenched regimes across Africa, Premier Meles's government sets out its plans for controlled change From a position of strength - there is just one opposition member of parliament - the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front has been setting out its plans to rebuild...
Vol 52 No 3 | RWANDA The political fallout 4th February 2011 Opposition forces, some armed and some civilian, intensify their campaigns against the regime in Kigali Yet another former government figure has set up a political movement in opposition to Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Faustin Twagiramungu, who was Prime Minister in the first post-genocide government in 1994,...
Vol 52 No 3 | BURUNDI Bad omens 4th February 2011 The clean sweep by President Pierre Nkurunziza and his Conseil national pour la défense de la démocratie-Forces pour la défense de la démocratie (CNDD-FDD) at the 2010 elections has failed to dispel fears that violence will increase further. The opposition claims there was massive fraud behind the ruling party’s triumph and since May, dozens of murders and over 100 grenade attacks have taken place (AC Vol 51 No 13).
Vol 4 (AAC) No 3 | ETHIOPIA Seyoum Mesfin 30th January 2011 Ambassador to China With his January appointment as Ambassador to China, Seyoum Mesfin steps back from the day-to-day battles in Addis politics. He will, however, maintain a central role in his...
Vol 52 No 2 | SUDAN Birth of a nation 21st January 2011 After the jubilation of the referendum vote, six months of tough negotiation and rough politics will lead up to the birth of independent Southern Sudan Joy reigned from Australia to North America and all over Sudan, especially in the 2,600 polling stations where over 3.9 million people voted in the South, as the...
Vol 52 No 2 | SUDAN The Tunis effect 21st January 2011 ‘Tunus, Tunus fis Sudan!’ (‘Tunis, Tunis in Sudan!’) shouted demonstrators outside Sudan’s London Embassy on 16 January. They were few but the protest is still a landmark. Several...
Vol 52 No 2 | SUDAN The Abyei crucible 21st January 2011 As Southern Sudan celebrates, neighbouring Abyei is a war zone. Clashes began on 7 January between a Northern Missiriya militia and well trained Southern commandos wearing police uniforms....