Vol 47 No 21 | SUDANSAUDI ARABIA Signal from Saudi 20th October 2006 An astonishing attack on Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir in the Saudi press signals a crack in Arab solidarity over Khartoum's policy on Darfur.
Vol 47 No 21 | UGANDA Riek's battalion 20th October 2006 The government of Southern Sudan has finally deployed a battalion of the Sudan People's Liberation Army to the assembly area that 800 Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters abandoned...
Vol 47 No 20 | SUDAN The West's weakness 6th October 2006 Military options were proposed on 1 October in the Washington Post by ex-President Bill Clinton's Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Susan Rice and National Security Advisor...
Vol 47 No 20 | SOMALIA Radio row 6th October 2006 In Vol 47 No 16, Africa Confidential reported that the BBC Somali Service and its head, Yusuf Garad, had been criticised for supporting the Supreme Islamic Courts Council...
Vol 47 No 19 | SUDANBRITAIN Khartoum's jihadis 22nd September 2006 Intelligence officials have noted Khartoum's repeated threats to attack UN troops; Field Marshal-President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir has promised to lead the jihad. Yet the international community...
Vol 47 No 19 | UGANDA Peace postponed 22nd September 2006 There will be no quick peace in Uganda. On 17 September, nearly 1,000 Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters had assembled at the forest clearing of Ri Kwangba, on...
Vol 47 No 18 | SOMALIAHORN OF AFRICA A threat to the Horn and beyond 8th September 2006 Rising tension between the regimes of President Yusuf and Chairman Aweys could escalate into a regional war Despite two impressive-looking agreements on security in Somalia this week, the prospects for a peaceful resolution of the crisis are poor. For now there is little middle ground,...
Vol 47 No 18 | SOMALIAARMS Mission Mogadishu 8th September 2006 An American private security company, Select Armor, has been planning military operations in support of President Abdullahi Yusuf's Transitional Federal Government in Somalia and raising questions about an...
Vol 47 No 18 | BURUNDI Dubious coup 8th September 2006 Opposition leaders are rounded up after claims of a plot to kill the President Efforts at national reconciliation are threatened by the arrest and maltreatment of opposition leaders after the government claimed that there was a plot to overthrow it and to...
Vol 47 No 18 | SUDANBRITAIN Gosh again 8th September 2006 As the Sudan government gears up for a massive new military offensive in Darfur, its intelligence chief Salah Abdullah 'Gosh' has again held secret talks in Britain, apparently...