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 Two weeks earlier, Murungi had withdrawn from her post as TJRC...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...
Vol 51 No 7 | KENYA A blow against impunity 2nd April 2010 The International Criminal Court is to probe election violence and may put some leading politicians and business people on trial for crimes against humanity The 31 March decision by the judges of the International Criminal Court to approve an investigation into the 2007 election violence follows two years of obfuscation and ambivalence...
Vol 51 No 7 | KENYA A dangerous compromise 2nd April 2010 The politicians' failure to agree on serious reform of the government risks a repeat of the 2007 election crisis The 20-year quest for a new constitution looks set to end in a dangerous compromise. At the end of March, when Parliament debated the Harmonised Draft Constitution, it...
Vol 51 No 7 | SUDANANALYSIS As elections arrive, the opposition shuns Omer 2nd April 2010 Sudan is set to become the first country to elect an indicted war criminal as president. Yet the elections are deemed so unlikely to be free and fair that, as AC went to press, the focus was on the extent and effects of the opposition boycott. Oppositionists argued there was little to be gained by participating and lending credence to the elections as the regime had rigged a victory with a manipulated census and elector registration, gerrymandered constituency boundaries and used state funds to buy loyalty. In the face of blatant preparations for election rigging, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement decided on 31 March to boycott the national presidential election and all elections in...
Vol 51 No 7 | SUDAN The most complex elections 2nd April 2010 The combination of one of the most elaborate and time-consuming electoral systems and mass illiteracy across most of the country virtually guarantees chaos in Sudan's elections on 11-13...