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...
Vol 50 No 6 | SUDAN Khartoum fights back 20th March 2009 President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir made a long and inflammatory speech at a 16 March ceremony in Khartoum's Green Square. The Sudan Armed Forces, security, militia and...
Vol 50 No 6 | KENYA An African 'war on terror' 20th March 2009 The murder of an activist and the police reaction to a criminal conspiracy reveal another dark side of Kenyan politics Oscar King'ara was murdered a day after he had pointed to a cabinet minister and the Kenyan police as being directly responsible for a two-year wave of extrajudicial...
Vol 50 No 6 | SOMALIA Anti-pirate alliance 20th March 2009 Expensive naval alliances have formed to deter the sea raiders who prey on ships off the Horn Millions of dollars, hundreds of troops and over two dozen ships from around the world chase pirates off the Somali coast (AC Vol 49 No 24). Yet the...
Vol 50 No 6 | SOMALIA The piracy menace 20th March 2009 Ransom payments range from US$500,000 to $3 million. The total since January 2008 is about $50-80 mn. Legal fees for a typical case are around $300,000, plus $100,000...
Vol 50 No 6 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Trouble in Kinshasa 20th March 2009 President Joseph Kabila’s worsening rivalry with the Speaker of the National Assembly, Vital Kamerhe, is dividing the ruling Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et le Développement (PPRD),...
Vol 50 No 5 | SUDAN Omer the outlaw 6th March 2009 The Islamist regime shows its true colours as the ICC issues the arrest warrant for President Omer el Beshir The arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir, which the International Criminal Court issued on 4 March, is a landmark event (AC Vol 50 Nos 2...
Vol 50 No 5 | KENYA Pushing Wako 6th March 2009 Kenya’s long-serving Attorney General, Amos Shitswila Wako, has been targeted for special censure by United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions Philip Alston, who has...
Vol 50 No 4 | KENYA A mutual security pact 20th February 2009 Tales of corruption deepen and the coalition partners seem to be protecting each other from the fallout The disgraced former Finance Minister, Amos Kimunya, is back in the cabinet, reinstated by President Mwai Kibaki in mid-January during a mini-reshuffle. His return went almost unnoticed amid...