Vol 49 No 9 | UGANDA The peace process teams 25th April 2008 Who's who in the peace talks with the Lord's Resistance Army.
Vol 49 No 9 | SUDAN Number crunching 25th April 2008 The two-week national census, which began on 22 April, will not provide accurate information on the size of the population but it will strengthen the regime’s grip on...
Vol 49 No 8 | SUDAN The real dividing line 11th April 2008 Oil, ideology and a bitter history worsen the dispute over where to draw the North-South border Sending its own man to run the Abyei enclave means that the Sudan People's Liberation Movement is clearly challenging the National Congress (NC, aka National Islamic Front). The...
Vol 49 No 8 | SUDAN The main points of the Abyei Protocol 11th April 2008 The then First Vice-President, Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, and the late Sudan People's Liberation Movement Chairman, Colonel John Garang de Mabior, signed the Principles of Agreement on Abyei...
Vol 49 No 8 | UGANDACONGO-KINSHASAOIL AND GAS Lake Albert and the gushers 11th April 2008 Congo-Kinshasa and Uganda still disagree about their shared border, but the scraps in which soldiers and civilians were killed on Lake Albert late last year have faded away,...
Vol 49 No 8 | KENYA Cabinet crisis 11th April 2008 The suspension on 8 April of negotiations over cabinet portfolios risks taking the country back to the turmoil of January and February. Just after Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic...
Vol 49 No 7 | UGANDAWESTERN SAHARA The ex-revolutionary front 28th March 2008 Two dissimilar but durable leaders have more in common than might at first appear There is a long, if surprising, alliance between two very different African leaders: the puritanical President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda and the extravagant Colonel Moammar el...
Vol 49 No 7 | ERITREA The border deadlock 28th March 2008 The UN is casting around for big ideas to end the dangerous stalemate of the future of the border - but none have emerged yet Next week, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to deliver a report on the Ethiopian-Eritrean border dispute which Ethiopia hopes will break the logjam and deliver a...
Vol 49 No 7 | ETHIOPIA Addis plays its diplomatic cards 28th March 2008 Ethiopian diplomats are confident of a couple of successes at the United Nations in the coming weeks. The first is over Somalia, where the UN Special Representative Ahmedou...
Vol 49 No 7 | SUDANEUROPEAN UNION Hotel Hellacious 28th March 2008 A public relations jamboree in Khartoum on 10-13 March tried to persuade European politicians and businesses that they are missing out on billions of petrodollars because of Western...