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...
Vol 48 No 18 | KENYA Leaky bucket 7th September 2007 The leaking of a report detailing how former President Daniel arap Moi's family and associates have stolen more than US$2 billion of state revenues was timed to cause...
Vol 48 No 17 | KENYA Politicians overboard 24th August 2007 Two key players have jumped from the opposition coalition but that will not assure President Kibaki of victory It was a bad month for Kenya's opposition, after personal rivalries came to a head and leading politicians split off to run their own campaigns. They will probably...