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...
Vol 50 No 7 | KENYA A reform deadline for the rivals 3rd April 2009 A year after the power-sharing accord, political change is faltering and the police are shooting human rights activists Politicians gathering in Nairobi and Geneva this week candidly admit that time is fast running out for the Grand Coalition to implement its promised reforms, without which Kenya...
Vol 50 No 7 | KENYA Inside the sealed envelope 3rd April 2009 A sealed envelope with the names of ten people judged by Justice Philip Waki's Commission to be the most important financiers and organisers of last year's post-election violence...
Vol 50 No 7 | KENYA In office, but not in power 3rd April 2009 Raila Odinga’s office is not running smoothly: his small staff are at odds and are holding up the reforms The 14th Floor of the Treasury Building that Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his modest staff occupy has been the office of Kenya's finance minister since the 1980s...
Vol 50 No 7 | SUDAN Air strikes and silence 3rd April 2009 Why was Khartoum so reluctant to admit that its arms transhipments had been hit by Israeli air strikes? Khartoum said nothing about Israel's air strikes on north-east Sudan in January and February until the news leaked out through an Egyptian newspaper last week. It then blamed...
Vol 50 No 7 | SUDAN Security in disguise 3rd April 2009 Khartoum’s expulsion of 13 international non-governmental organisations has provided an opportunity for asset stripping (AC Vol 50 No 6). Instead of handing over premises, equipment and data to...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 5 | SUDANCHINA Business is politics 27th March 2009 The ICC's issuing of the arrest warrant for the Sudanese President exposes the contradictions in China's 'business is business' policy The arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir issued by the International Criminal Court on 4 March comprehensively overshadowed the golden jubilee of Chinese-Sudanese relations. March...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 5 | RWANDASINGAPORE Alphonsus Chia Chung Mun 27th March 2009 Chief Executive Officer, Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE) Rwandan President Paul Kagame has secured Singapore's interest in Rwanda's future. Singapore Cooperation Enterprise's Chief Executive Officer, Alphonsus Chia, was in Kigali in February to talk up investment opportunities. This is...
Vol 50 No 6 | SUDAN New battles for Darfur 20th March 2009 As some SLM factions regroup, the Justice and Equality Movement tries to position itself for a new order The political crisis in Khartoum after the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir has fostered new hopes among the opposition, not least...