Vol 48 No 12 | KENYA Terror comes home to roost 8th June 2007 A concerted attack on the violent Mungiki sect began in earnest on 4 June after two police officers were shot dead in the Mathare slums, a stronghold of...
Vol 48 No 12 | SUDAN Sanction action 8th June 2007 If they do little else, United States' sanctions on Sudan, strengthened on 29 May, draw attention to the scope for economic pressure on the Islamist regime.
Vol 48 No 11 | UGANDA Room at the top 25th May 2007 The death of the President's closest military advisor opens a quiet succession contest The untimely death from acute pancreatitis of Brigadier Noble Mayombo was widely lamented. He was a top intelligence officer, Private Secretary to Defence Minister Crispus Kiyonga and tipped...
Vol 48 No 11 | UGANDA In the front ranks 25th May 2007 With the President's ear, Brigadier Noble Mayombo was one of the most influential officers in the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF). President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is Commander-in-Chief and...
Vol 48 No 11 | TANZANIA Grounded 25th May 2007 Praising the government's private sector growth initiatives earlier this year at the prestigious United States' Yale University, East Africa tycoon Reginald Mengi stressed the need to be 'careful'...
Vol 48 No 10 | SUDAN Africa's mission undermined 11th May 2007 A weak hybrid force of African Union and United Nations troops with little or no reconnaissance or intelligence capacity looks the most probable outcome of the negotiations on...
Vol 48 No 10 | SUDAN Caught in the act 11th May 2007 An Amnesty report claims that Russia and China are supplying arms to Sudan for use against Darfur civilians Pressure for a no-fly zone in Darfur and tougher United Nations' sanctions on Khartoum will increase after Amnesty International's report on 7 May detailing the regime's flouting of...
Vol 48 No 10 | UGANDA Noble's demise 11th May 2007 Mourners thronged Saint John's cathedral in Fort Portal, western Uganda, on 4 May for the funeral of former military intelligence chief and presidential aide, Brigadier Noble Mayombo.
Vol 48 No 10 | DJIBOUTIFRANCE Judges swoop 11th May 2007 The struggle to shed light on the 1995 death of French Judge Bernard Borrel in Djibouti continues.
Vol 48 No 9 | ETHIOPIASOMALIA The great gamble 27th April 2007 Ethiopia and others bet on the TFG A few weeks ago, it looked as if relative calm was returning to Mogadishu, but violence has soared again. Ethiopia says it wants its forces to leave but...