Vol 47 No 4 | KENYA The hawks are circling 17th February 2006 President Mwai Kibaki has been fatally wounded by his government's corruption scandals Did President Mwai Kibaki know about illicit political funding? Africa Confidential has listened to a covert recording of a conversation between anti-corruption czar John Githongo and the then...
Vol 47 No 4 | ETHIOPIA Waiting but not sitting 17th February 2006 The opposition coalition that won the capital last May has split, leaving the city council in limbo Nine months after May's controversial elections, Addis Ababa's councillors have still not taken their seats. The four-party opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) won the capital by...
Vol 47 No 4 | SUDAN Smooth operator 17th February 2006 Just as Western governments begin to note the regime's lack of financial transparency, the ruling National Islamic Front-National Congress has another bonanza. On 6 February, Kuwait-based Mobile Telecommunications...
Vol 47 No 4 | UGANDA Judges and generals 17th February 2006 The election campaign of Forum for Democratic Change leader kizza-besigye">Kizza Besigye has been seriously disrupted by spurious charges of treason and terrorism, both in the High Court and...
Vol 47 No 3 | KENYA Going down with the ship 3rd February 2006 Finance Minister David Mwiraria is the first domino to fall as the government faces a growing anti-corruption backlash The momentum behind the anti-corruption drive, sparked by press reports of a dossier of investigations into more than US$1 billion of fraudulent government procurement deals, now looks unstoppable....
Vol 47 No 3 | KENYA The anti-corruption czar, the businessman and his lawyer 3rd February 2006 Why did the lawyers of Cyprus-based businessman Anura Perera try to arrange a private meeting with anti-corruption czar John Githongo in a London hotel in late 2004? This...
Vol 47 No 3 | UGANDA Losers can win too 3rd February 2006 President Museveni is surprised to face the strongest challenge yet to his 20-year rule The cheering was almost as loud as the jets of two MiG-21 fighters that flew low over Kampala on 26 January. The flypast crowned a military display to...
Vol 47 No 3 | UGANDA Making the President nervous 3rd February 2006 Only President Yoweri Museveni's die-hard supporters expect him to win many votes in northern Uganda, where he is blamed for failing to end the 18-year insurgency by the...
Vol 47 No 2 | SUDAN 'Beyond that now' 20th January 2006 The UN is to test last September's anti-war crimes resolution in Darfur As the plight of civilians in Darfur worsens, United Nations' troops may take over from those of the African Union later this year. Yet will they have the...
Vol 47 No 2 | RWANDABELGIUM Death in the canal 20th January 2006 On 17 December, a naked and mutilated corpse turned up in a Brussels canal. Five days later, after DNA tests, it was identified as that of Juvénal Uwingiliyimana,...