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Leaders in waiting

There are no credible challengers to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni within the top ranks of the governing National Resistance Movement. The respected Foreign Minister James Wambogo Wapakhabulo, who...

Hybrid justice

The African Union Panel of Experts is to propose the establishment of 'hybrid courts' - which would include both Sudanese and international judges - to try those...

American airlift

When United States special forces landed near the Shabaab-held Somalian town of Barawe to assassinate and carry off several members of the Al Shabaab jihadist group on...

The oil revenue row

Scrutiny of oil figures from CNPC suggests that the Khartoum government has been cheating the South of substantial revenues

Beijing faces a new round of criticism over its heavy investments in Sudan's oil business following the publication of a report by British lobbyists Global Witness(1) on 7 September pointing to...

Khartoum pressures Southern Sudan over oil

Oil figures suggest that Khartoum is cheating the South of revenue and threatening the increasingly fragile peace

Concern is growing about the economic and political conflicts which threaten the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in January 2005. Many of these conflicts stem from the opacity of...

Khartoum and Beijing disagree

There are mismatches between Khartoum's oil figures and those of the CNPC

Global Witness found mismatches between the Sudan government's figures and those of the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and other company figures on oil production for all blocks...

Dangers and dilemmas in the Horn of Africa

The most dangerous corner of Africa is its north-eastern Horn, where instability reigns and terrorism thrives on the antagonisms of its governments

The fate of Somalia is in the balance, as the Transitional Federal Government struggles for control against Islamist insurgents. Eritrea and Ethiopia are engaged in an unremitting struggle....

Nkurunziza's formula for victory

Election rules seemed to have been agreed but the President wants new ones to make sure he wins

With a year to go before presidential, parliamentary and local elections, President Pierre Nkurunziza is trying to ensure that he and his party win. Diplomats are worried as...

The vote and the money

The good news for Burundi is that 80% of the cost of next year's elections - US$45 million, about 5% of the budget - will be paid by...

A return ticket for security chief Salah Gosh

The 13 August move of Lieutenant General Salah Abdullah Mohamed 'Gosh' from Director of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) to Presidential Security Advisor comes at a critical time for the National Congress Party (aka National Islamic Front) regime. President Omer el Beshir is fending off arrest for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court and the party's leading tacticians are determined to secure total victory in national elections and a referendum on the future of the South, both due in the next two years.

In the eyes of Western intelligence agencies, Salah Gosh was an important figure to cultivate. He was, according to British, French and United States officials, a source of...

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