Vol 49 No 5 | SUDANCHINA Lifting the bamboo curtain 29th February 2008 Beijing is changing its policy on Khartoum but on its own terms China is worried about the 'deadlock' in Darfur and is looking for new ideas, its Special Representative for Africa and Darfur, Liu Guijin, told a leading Sudanese civic...
Vol 49 No 5 | SUDANCHINABRITAIN Selective divestment 29th February 2008 Britain’s Conservative Party, which has been campaigning against the Sudan government’s Darfur policy, faces charges of hypocrisy after it accepted more than US$800,000 in contributions from a United...
Vol 49 No 5 | RWANDABRITAIN Mission position 29th February 2008 Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair landed in Kigali on 23 February on his mission to give ‘unpaid’ advice to the Rwandan government and to his ‘long standing...
Vol 49 No 4 | KENYA The safari talks 15th February 2008 Signs of progress, however elusive, are boosting hopes for a deal but the militias are rearming - just in case The announcement of a political deal on 14 February at talks at a Kilaguni Game Lodge mediated by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan boosted morale but...
Vol 49 No 4 | KENYA Message from the wazungu 15th February 2008 Outsiders have been belatedly increasing pressure on Kenya's feuding politicians as former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan moved the negotiating teams to the secluded Kilaguni Safari Lodge...
Vol 49 No 4 | TANZANIA Cleaning the stables 15th February 2008 Parliament exposed the Prime Minister's wrongdoing and now the President has sacked nine ministers Kizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda, who served as Private Secretary to three Tanzanian presidents, Julius Nyerere, Ali Hassan Mwinyi and Benjamin Mkapa, is President Jakaya Kikwete's surprising choice as...
Vol 49 No 4 | RWANDASPAIN Indicting Kigali 15th February 2008 A Spanish judge has made it unsafe for 40 senior Rwandan officials to travel outside their own country by issuing international arrest warrants against them for crimes including...
Vol 49 No 3 | KENYA The soldiers wait in the wings 1st February 2008 After another spate of murderous attacks and high level political obstruction, many see military intervention as a desperate remedy Amid the latest round of killing in the Rift Valley, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame suggested that intervention by Kenya’s military may be the only solution left: ‘I know...
Vol 49 No 3 | KENYA The spurned advisor at State House 1st February 2008 Confidence at State House was knocked by their party’s appalling parliamentary results in the 27 December elections and the furore over the disputed presidential vote. For several days,...
Vol 49 No 3 | KENYA Military options 1st February 2008 At the height of this week’s violence in the Rift Valley, senior Kenyan politicians on both sides of the divide began discussing the possibility of a military intervention....