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....
Vol 49 No 2 | KENYA Handshakes at dusk 16th January 2008 Much hard work lies ahead if the awkward meeting between Odinga is to lead to a resolution of the worsening crisis Such is the depth of despair about the intractability of the post-election crisis that many saw the meeting of Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga, arranged by former United...
Vol 49 No 2 | KENYA The heart of the matter 16th January 2008 Pastor Robert Kipchoge Birgen of the African Inland Church in Chepsiria is an Oskar Schindler of the North Rift, a man who saved the lives of people hunted...
Vol 49 No 2 | SUDANANALYSIS The centre versus the rest 16th January 2008 El Sadig el Sideeg el Mahdi launched his bid to return to power, only to be shouted down by hundreds of Sudanese who had flocked to listen El Sadig's view that the National Congress regime (NC, as the NIF has rebranded itself) is afraid of violence spreading looks like wishful thinking. As El Sadig...
Vol 49 No 2 | SUDAN Looking for a leader 16th January 2008 The Sudan People's Liberation Movement has been unable to find a Nuba leader of the stature of the founder of the Nuba rebellion, the late Yusif Kuwa Mekki.