Vol 49 No 17 | DJIBOUTISAUDI ARABIA Bin Laden's bridge 22nd August 2008 The epic plan for the world's longest suspension bridge, stretching 27 kilometres between Djibouti and Yemen (AC Vol 49 No 13) and officially launched in Djibouti on 28...
Vol 49 No 17 | SOMALIA Truculent two 22nd August 2008 Personal rivalries between President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and Prime Minister Nur Hassan 'Adde' threaten the Transitional Federal Government in Mogadishu and undermine the fragile United Nations-backed negotiations with...
Vol 49 No 16 | SUDAN Saving Omer 1st August 2008 An international court accuses President Omer el Beshir but he has some unlikely defenders The International Criminal Court's bid to put President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir on trial for genocide is the sternest test yet for the emerging system of international...
Vol 49 No 16 | SUDAN Taking positions 1st August 2008 There has been a strong international reaction to the ICC's application for an arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omer el Beshir for genocide, war crimes and crimes against...
Vol 49 No 16 | KENYA Coalition under strain 1st August 2008 There are tremors within the power-sharing grand coalition that ended the post-election mayhem A day after the no-confidence vote in Parliament against ex-Finance Minister Amos Kimunya, the Deputy Prime Minister, Uhuru Kenyatta, called a press conference. He was belligerent, describing the...
Vol 49 No 16 | UGANDA Fourth for M7 1st August 2008 Having amended the constitution to allow him to run for a third consecutive term in 2006, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni intends to run for a fourth five-year term....
Vol 49 No 15 | KENYA A hotel, a minister and a scandal 18th July 2008 The newspapers and the ODM are having fun but what really happened? The government's secret sale of Nairobi's Grand Regency Hotel has caused a political storm, induced the resignation of Finance Minister Amos Kimunya on 8 July and raised many...
Vol 49 No 15 | KENYALIBYA The Colonel's shopping spree 18th July 2008 Libyan investment in Kenya has grown over the past three years from almost nothing to an estimated tens of billions of Kenya shillings. The Libyans are now on...
Vol 49 No 15 | SUDANANALYSIS Abyei - a border that shapes the future 18th July 2008 As the International Criminal Court laid charges of genocide against President Omer el Beshir on 14 July, Africa Confidential obtained a United Nations' internal report that blames the Khartoum regime for much of the death and destruction in Abyei in May. The report criticises the UN's shortcomings in Sudan but also notes that government bomber aircraft targeted aid headquarters and that local people regard goverment strategy as ethnic cleansing. The immediate trigger for the crisis over Abyei is Khartoum's refusal to accept a ruling made by the Abyei Boundaries Commission (ABC) under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement...
Vol 49 No 15 | SUDAN 'If you have a gun you attack everything in front of you' 18th July 2008 The debate over the International Criminal Court's charges against President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir (see Pointer) has focused on the ICC, the fractious peace negotiations and the...