Vol 50 No 14 | RWANDA The missing suspects 10th July 2009 Thirteen more genocide suspects are sought by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The United States government's offer of a US$5 million bounty for their arrest has...
Vol 50 No 13 | SUDAN Coup anniversary – 20 years of Islamist rule 26th June 2009 As the NCP/NIF celebrates 20 years in power, the 'democratic transformation' stipulated by the CPA looks optimistic A momentous year awaits Sudan. Amid fighting in the South and Darfur, elections are due in February and the Southern referendum on independence is scheduled for 2011. The...
Vol 50 No 13 | TANZANIAECONOMY Kikwete's bailout package 26th June 2009 Tanzania, the second largest of the big-three members of the East African Community, has presented a budget with a bullish message designed to spend its way out of...
Vol 50 No 13 | SUDAN 'Selling the South down the river' 26th June 2009 This week's meeting in Washington of the two signatories to the 2005 CPA is unprecedented. Both the National Congress Party (aka National Islamic Front) and the Sudan People's...
Vol 50 No 13 | SUDAN The coup-making government lives on 26th June 2009 Hassan Abdullah el Turabi may watch mainly from the wings but the party he nurtured lives on, albeit renamed. The core group of his National Islamic Front is...
Vol 50 No 13 | KENYA Good news for some 26th June 2009 Three main groups should do well out of Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta's maiden budget: Kenya's 210 elected members of parliament and its millionaires and commercial bankers. Kenyatta,...
Vol 50 No 13 | UGANDA Unable to spend 26th June 2009 Uganda's first female Finance Minister, Syda Namirembe Bbumba, was big on optimism with her $3.6 bn. budget, which had no tax increases. With economic growth expected to slow...
Vol 50 No 12 | KENYA Uhuru's accounting crisis 12th June 2009 A series of mathematical blunders complicates preparations for the budget and suggests a government cover-up A political and economic storm battered Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta before his maiden budget speech on 11 June, as the effects of last year’s political crisis feed into...
Vol 50 No 12 | ERITREA Mistaken identity 12th June 2009 The Eritrean opposition’s struggles to be heard may be harder since its main news site got into difficulties last week. The Awate.com website claimed that a film crew...
Vol 50 No 11 | SOMALIA Target Mogadishu 29th May 2009 An alliance between Al Shabaab and the Hizbul Islam militias looks determined to seize the capital but their arms suppliers face UN sanctions More than 200 people have been killed and over 50,000 people chased from their homes in this month's offensive by insurgents against President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed's regime...