Vol 50 No 10 | ETHIOPIA A change is going to come 15th May 2009 After 18 years in power, serious moves are afoot to renew the leadership of the ruling EPRDF Change is coming to Ethiopia, says Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. It was time the country's political old guard stepped down, he told Africa Confidential in an interview on...
Vol 50 No 10 | ETHIOPIA The challengers 15th May 2009 While no names have yet been put forward, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's proposals for change have prompted much discussion behind the scenes. Africa Confidential lists the potential successors...
Vol 50 No 10 | SUDAN Open sesame 15th May 2009 In diplomatic bartering this week, Khartoum offered limited access in Darfur to some affiliates of the 13 Western aid agencies it expelled on 4 March. Yet, at the...
Vol 50 No 9 | SOMALIA Keep someone else’s peace 1st May 2009 Just as an international conference promises more peacekeepers, an Islamist leader returns to Mogadishu to drive them out The return of Sheikh Hassan Dahir 'Aweys' to Mogadishu on 23 April may prove extremely dangerous for the shaky coalition government under Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed (AC Vol...
Vol 50 No 9 | CHADSUDAN Who shoots first? 1st May 2009 The regimes in N’djamena and Khartoum are preparing for another proxy war, this time with more guns and better technology On the Chad-Sudan border, everyone is asking who will fire first. As the mandate of the European Union Force (EUFOR) in eastern Chad ran out last month, Sudan's...
Vol 50 No 9 | KENYA Who is in charge here? 1st May 2009 The coalition government looks irreparably split but Speaker Kenneth Marende has offered a temporary fix Kenya's coalition squabbles have spilled over into Parliament (AC Vol 50 No 9). The latest, and worst, row between the coalition partners, President Mwai Kibaki's Party of...
Vol 50 No 9 | SUDAN Warnings 1st May 2009 International concern is rising over the North-South peace deal and the national elections due under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. This week, the head of the CPA's Assessment and...
Vol 50 No 9 | ETHIOPIA Losing the plot 1st May 2009 The arrest of 35 members of Ginbot 7 on 24 April, accused of plotting a coup against Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government, increases the pressure on opposition groups...
Vol 50 No 8 | UGANDAANALYSIS Museveni - from grand reformer to simply surviving 17th April 2009 With his eyes on another five-year presidential term in 2011, President Yoweri Museveni has shaken up his cabinet, touted Uganda's future as an oil exporter and pressed for a military resolution to the conflict with the LRA. The only thing that could stop him from extending his 23 years of rule is infighting between the factions of the ruling National Resistance Movement. Museveni's long-term allies benefit from his grip on power, but a new generation in the ruling party wants changes to policies and leadership. President Yoweri Museveni has two main power centres. Firstly, the National Resistance Movement which still enjoys popular support across Uganda, especially in the vote-rich rural areas. The NRM...
Vol 50 No 8 | UGANDAOIL AND GAS Oil without borders 17th April 2009 The drama surrounding oil reserves on the Ugandan and Congolese sides of Lake Albert came to an end in April with London's Heritage Oil and Gas and Ireland's...