Vol 49 No 21 | RWANDA The Kivu impasse 17th October 2008 Rwanda cannot escape the troubles across the border in North Kivu The rebel Congolese Tutsi General, Laurent Nkunda, has called for an uprising against the Kinshasa government. The 3,000-6,000 men of his Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple...
Vol 49 No 21 | SUDANBRITAIN Brothers reunited 17th October 2008 Those who thought that the 1999 split in the National Islamic front, when Hassan Abdullah el Turabi was officially sidelined, would seriously change Khartoum’s Islamist regime might be...
Vol 49 No 21 | SUDAN Khartoum's strategy 17th October 2008 The threat of an indictment for war crimes of Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir by the International Criminal Court has not diminished the Khartoum regime’s willingness...
Vol 49 No 20 | KENYA Another ethnic scramble 3rd October 2008 A well-intentioned reform threatens the country's regional parties and alliances The political parties are waking up to the potentially ruinous implications of the new Political Parties Act. Passed into law in the run-up to last year's ill-fated general...
Vol 49 No 20 | KENYASOMALIASUDAN Arms and the boys 3rd October 2008 Somalia's pirates are busy guarding the 33 Ukrainian tanks and other equipment captured on the MV Faina on 25 September. United States' naval vessels surround the ship...
Vol 49 No 19 | SUDAN The Darfur dance 19th September 2008 Khartoum's diplomats are lobbying hard at the UN to block an arrest warrant for President Omer for genocide and war crimes The diplomatic dance at the United Nations General Assembly is intensifying over the arrest warrants against Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir sought by the Chief Prosecutor...
Vol 49 No 19 | SOMALIA Pirates afloat 19th September 2008 The United Nations World Food Programme has successfully appealed to the European Union for protection of its life-saving cargoes of food aid. On 15 September, the EU’s foreign...
Vol 49 No 18 | KENYA The evidence unfolds 5th September 2008 Public inquiries into Kenya's electoral troubles offer a safety valve, not a solution Two official commissions of inquiry completed their public hearings last week. The Kriegler Commission’s subject is electoral fraud in the disputed presidential election of December 2007; the Waki...
Vol 49 No 18 | KENYA Commissions galore 5th September 2008 Commissions of inquiry are the Houdini act of the Kenyan state, getting the government out of tight spots by a public display of evidence, later shelved and producing...
Vol 49 No 18 | RWANDAFRANCE The dead bite back 5th September 2008 Rwanda accuses France of involvement in the 1994 genocide; France blames Rwanda; expect more accusations soon France had hoped to repair the breach but Rwandan President Paul Kagame rejected the olive branch. On 5 August, his government published the report of an ‘independent’ commission,...