Vol 51 No 9 | SUDAN Stolen votes yield a hollow victory for Khartoum 30th April 2010 Vote-fixing in an election lacking any credibility has galvanised opposition in the North and may undermine the ruling party A beaming President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir waved his stick triumphantly as his victory was announced in Khartoum on 26 April. Yet the ruling National Congress Party...
Vol 51 No 9 | SUDAN A good vote in Africa 30th April 2010 Free, fair and good-humoured. They were organised and monitored entirely by Sudanese and their results were widely accepted as free and fair. Those were Sudan’s landmark elections of...
Vol 51 No 9 | SUDAN The deals, the votes and the fraud 30th April 2010 There was plenty of rigging and fixing of votes across the country but sometimes the best laid plans went awry.
Vol 51 No 9 | KENYA Worrying the witnesses 30th April 2010 The people behind the post-election political violence are threatening witnesses and trying to derail the international investigation Claims that a senior official in the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) has been handing over information to politicians about witnesses to the 2007 post-election violence...
Vol 51 No 9 | KENYA Bye bye Betty 30th April 2010 Betty Murungi’s resignation from the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission on 19 April may trigger its disbanding. Two weeks earlier, Murungi had withdrawn from her post as TJRC...
Vol 51 No 8 | SUDAN An election victory that widens the North-South gap 16th April 2010 Western governments accept the regime’s rigged victory in exchange for what they hope will be a Southern referendum Long before voting started on 11 April, it was clear that the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in Khartoum would maintain its iron grip on power and that...
Vol 51 No 8 | SUDAN Election-rigging guide book 16th April 2010 Interested governments may turn a deaf ear but the opposition is making sure no one, at home or abroad, can credibly claim the 2010 elections were free and...
Vol 51 No 8 | SUDAN A moral dilemma 16th April 2010 There was no election boycott in Darfur by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, Ibrahim Agboola Gambari told Jimmy Carter on 10 April. The United States’ ex-President then told...
Vol 51 No 8 | ETHIOPIA Looking for a landslide 16th April 2010 The ruling party is set to win next month’s elections amid growing criticism at home and abroad The government is determined to win by a landslide in the 23 May elections, to make up for the question marks over those of 2005 (AC Vol 46...
Vol 51 No 8 | KENYAGERMANY German exile 16th April 2010 News that Oku Kaunya, a former deputy Commandant in the Administration Police, has gone into exile in Germany will concentrate the minds of the investigators from the International...