Vol 48 No 22 | SUDAN Raiding the camps 2nd November 2007 While Khartoum’s delegates attend the peace talks, its armed forces move in on Darfur’s displaced peoples’ camps As Khartoum’s delegation sat in Libya slamming ‘holdout rebels’ who had boycotted the Darfur talks, its armed forces were capturing displaced people in a camp near Nyala. It...
Vol 48 No 22 | CHADSUDAN In loco parentis 2nd November 2007 The trial of nine French and seven Spanish citizens accused of abducting 103 children from the Chad/Sudan border region on 25 October will damage France’s relationship with Chad...
Vol 48 No 21 | SUDAN Salva and the Salvation regime 19th October 2007 Southern anger at Khartoum’s violation of the 2005 peace accord explodes as the regime prepares for talks on Darfur For the first time since the United States forced it to the negotiating table in early 2003, the ruling National Congress (aka National Islamic Front) is under serious...
Vol 48 No 21 | KENYA Wait while we connect you 19th October 2007 The privatisation of East Africa’s biggest cellphone company unveils a political and corporate scandal The government desperately wants to sell a 25% stake of Safaricom, its joint venture with Britain's Vodafone on the Nairobi Stock Exchange, before this year's elections. President Mwai...
Vol 48 No 21 | SOMALIA Bad history 19th October 2007 Those planning a UN peacekeeping mission to Somalia are haunted by the disasters of 15 years ago Ethiopian and Ugandan troops in Somalia are due to welcome a new contingent of peacekeepers this month. Two battalions of soldiers from Burundi, with 1,750 men, should arrive...
Vol 48 No 21 | SOMALIA Fall out at the top 19th October 2007 The rift between President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi is in full swing. The latest twist came when Attorney General Abdullahi Dahir ordered the...
Vol 48 No 21 | SOMALIASOMALILANDPUNTLAND How many states for the north? 19th October 2007 Tension between Somaliland (created in 1991) and the much less firmly established Puntland (created 1998) has been running high. On 1 July, yet another state, Maakhir, was inaugurated...
Vol 48 No 21 | SUDAN Comprehensively breached 19th October 2007 The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement withdrawal from the Government of National Unity (GNU) on 11 October followed months of warnings by the SPLM that the National Congress was...
Vol 48 No 20 | KENYA The opposition advantage 5th October 2007 President Kibaki campaigns on his record but opposition leader Raila Odinga is bolstered by regional discontents A sense of urgency if not panic has gripped President Mwai Kibaki's camp ahead of the elections due in December. For the first time, opposition leader Raila Odinga...
Vol 48 No 20 | UGANDA Doctor, doctor 5th October 2007 How healthcare funds went astray just before an election – and the President’s allies are under investigation again The office of First Lady Janet Museveni is at the centre of a row over the misuse of healthcare funds according to investigators into two financial scandals at...