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...
Vol 48 No 20 | ERITREAETHIOPIA That troublesome border 5th October 2007 The quarrel between Addis Ababa and Asmara over their common border and the political chaos in Somalia is intensifying. The heat turned up after the Ethiopia Eritrea...
Vol 48 No 20 | RWANDAFRANCE Healing the rift 5th October 2007 Diplomatic relations between France and Rwanda may be on the mend. Rwanda broke them off in November 2006, after a French judge, Jean-Louis Bruguière, issued arrest warrants against...
Vol 48 No 20 | SENEGALSUDAN Wrong number again 5th October 2007 Karim Wade, the son of President Abdoulaye Wade, is the subject of complaints about the award of Senegal's third mobile phone licence to Sudatel, whose closest competitor, Celtel...
Vol 48 No 19 | ETHIOPIA The Ogaden's trickling sands 21st September 2007 The Ogaden's bloody struggle has a wider global dimension Thirty years ago, the United States National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, declared that ‘SALT lies buried in the sands of the Ogaden’: he meant the Strategic Arms Limitation...
Vol 48 No 19 | ETHIOPIA Roots of the ONLF rebellion 21st September 2007 The Ogaden National Liberation Front joined the political system in Ethiopia’s Somali Regional in 1991 and it had a majority in the administration. In 1994, it split over...
Vol 48 No 19 | SUDAN Southern warning 21st September 2007 Negotiations between Khartoum and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army in 2003-05 diverted attention from Khartoum’s mass murder and ethnic cleansing in Darfur; now the Islamist regime is exploiting...
Vol 48 No 19 | KENYA Trebles all round 21st September 2007 It was no coincidence that the sudden decision by MPs last week to support a long-prepared amendment barring Kenya’s Anti-Corruption Commission from investigating cases prior to May 2003...
Vol 48 No 18 | SUDAN Darfur deadlines 7th September 2007 Western troop contributors fall behind schedule while Khartoum expels Western diplomats and aid workers The United Nations has missed its first deadline for deploying peacekeepers in Darfur - not because of African Union recalcitrance but because non-African governments failed to offer specialised...