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...
Vol 50 No 11 | SUDAN Who's counting? 29th May 2009 When Southern Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit said this month that he was 'unhappy and unsatisfied' with the census results, he was pointing to the next major clash...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 7 | SOMALIAASIA Somalia tests maritime solidarity 22nd May 2009 The international anti-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia is the type of cooperative mission that the United States sees as helpful to reduce the strain on its...
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...