Vol 48 No 15 | DJIBOUTIFRANCE Jacques et le juge 20th July 2007 Police raids on the house of ex-President Jacques Chirac's Africa advisor Michel de Bonnecourse on 9 and 10 July raise the stakes in the investigation into claims by...
Vol 48 No 15 | RWANDA Tower of power 20th July 2007 The Kigali government's plan to provide air traffic control systems across the whole of central Africa, where airspace is mostly unmonitored, could earn Rwanda as much as US$156...
Vol 48 No 14 | TANZANIA Politics of the sieve 6th July 2007 The government has been sitting on a multimillion dollar scandal at the Bank of Tanzania, waiting for it to erupt. It has. The 'government will continue fighting against carelessness and make sure public servants deliver to the expectations of the wananchi [citizens] and the government'. While President Jakaya Kikwete was...
Vol 48 No 14 | TANZANIA Economics of the sieve 6th July 2007 Millions of dollars in revenue from natural resources slip past the government's coffers due to smuggling, a lack of administrative capacity and collusion with politicians. No less than...
Vol 48 No 13 | SUDAN At the barrel of a gun 22nd June 2007 International pressure has at last forced Khartoum to agree to a UN-backed protection force in Darfur but the struggle won't stop there A mixture of scepticism and hope greets Khartoum's claims that it has unconditionally accepted that around 20,000 peacekeepers will be deployed in Darfur by 2008. Interested governments and...
Vol 48 No 13 | SUDAN Intelligent design 22nd June 2007 Claims that Sudan gives the United States intelligence on Al Qaida in Somalia and Iraq - and Khartoum's rapid denial - have revived important questions. Does this 'intelligence...
Vol 48 No 13 | SUDAN In denial, in extremis 22nd June 2007 The United Nations' Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Darfur of 8 June sets targets and deadlines with which it says the Sudanese regime should comply....
Vol 48 No 13 | SOMALIA Unlikely meeting of minds 22nd June 2007 President Abdullahi's government makes some progress but it still isn't trusted Despite widespread scepticism, a Somali National Reconciliation Congress is now due in Mogadishu on 16 July. It offers to reconcile the clans without which no national political reconciliation...
Vol 48 No 13 | ERITREAETHIOPIASOMALIA Warriors by proxy 22nd June 2007 With Somalia looking more settled, Ethiopia has been looking towards Eritrea, which it sees as the regional spoiler. On 8 June, Addis Ababa wrote to the United Nations...
Vol 48 No 12 | KENYA Campaign confusion 8th June 2007 Rival personalities and ethnicities divide the coalitions seeking power in December The electors may be excused for being confused. As the race to the December elections picks up, they face a choice between two coalitions that bicker constantly within...