Vol 51 No 13 | SUDAN Crisis cabinets 25th June 2010 The new teams in Khartoum and Juba will face a tense six months before the referendum – and the threat of a war that some want and many expect The message from the new government in Khartoum is that the National Congress Party is in full control and intends to stay there. The message from the new...
Vol 51 No 13 | SUDAN The international agenda 25th June 2010 The most dramatic military-security appointment is of Ali Ahmed Kurti as full Foreign Affairs Minister (he was previously State Minister). He is best known for establishing the Popular...
Vol 51 No 13 | BURUNDI Single party rules again 25th June 2010 Democracy has not been established despite international encouragement and the presidential election is a one-horse race The one-party state is back. President Pierre Nkurunziza will be the only candidate in the 28 June presidential elections. The opposition’s right to hold meetings has been suspended,...
Vol 51 No 13 | RWANDASOUTH AFRICA World cup shooting 25th June 2010 The would-be killers who bungled an attack on dissident Rwandan General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa seem to have thought that the World Cup would divert police attention from their...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 8 | ETHIOPIAINDIA Fertile fields for India 17th June 2010 The Addis government shows scant regard for the potential local impact of massive Indian investment in floriculture and biofuels Ethiopia is renowned more for its famines than for its fertile fields but land leasing has become a burgeoning business in some of the most unlikely locations. Vast swathes of...
Vol 51 No 12 | KENYA The rise of the watermelons 11th June 2010 The constitutional referendum is splitting parties, creating bizarre alliances and foreshadowing the 2012 elections
Vol 51 No 12 | SUDAN Flash point Southern Kordofan 11th June 2010 Amid complaints of Khartoum’s meddling and the SPLM’s betrayal, how South Kordofan reacts will be critical to the referenda in January The rerun of the population census in South Kordofan next week will highlight another flash point in Sudan’s shaky North-South peace agreement ahead of the referenda on self-determination...
Vol 51 No 12 | SUDAN Militias of the new age 11th June 2010 In the seven short months before January’s independence referendum, militias in the South’s oil-producing areas – Upper Nile, Jonglei and Unity states – will be one of the...
Vol 51 No 12 | SUDAN Oily alliances 11th June 2010 A new oil consortium operating in Darfur brings together private Arab, Gabonese and Libyan state interests and companies close to Khartoum’s ruling National Congress Party. It also raises...
Vol 51 No 11 | ETHIOPIA Opposition wipe-out 28th May 2010 In 2005, all of Addis Ababa’s federal parliamentary seats went to the opposition; this time, preliminary results suggest that all but one have gone to the Ethiopian People’s...