Vol 47 No 7 | UGANDA Khartoum's long arm 31st March 2006 The LRA insurgency drags painfully on, threatening Congo and Southern Sudan as well A spate of attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army over the last two months on the region around Yei in Southern Sudan has put the international focus back...
Vol 47 No 6 | KENYA In the hole 17th March 2006 The government keeps digging for corruption but sinks lower as it digs The clumsy midnight attack by government agents on The Standard and KTN Television, both owned by the family of former President Daniel arap Moi, on 1 March looked...
Vol 47 No 6 | KENYA Biting the snake 17th March 2006 'If you prod a rattlesnake, you must be prepared to be bitten', is how Kenya's Internal Security Minister, John Njoroge Michuki, explained the police raids on the night...
Vol 47 No 6 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Tentative 17th March 2006 Secret talks in London on 10 March between American lawyers may help unblock the border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia, that killed 50-100,000 people in 1998-2000. Both governments...
Vol 47 No 6 | SUDANBRITAIN Now you see him 17th March 2006 Who brought Sudan's security boss, Salah Abdullah 'Gosh', to London last week? He is number two on the United Nations Panel of Experts' list of 'individuals identified' for...
Vol 47 No 5 | UGANDA Museveni wins, at a price 3rd March 2006 Yoweri Museveni won the presidency and his party won parliament but the country is divided There is no love lost between those political and personal foes, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his former friend, colleague and physician, Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe, the President's only...
Vol 47 No 5 | UGANDA Losing and winning 3rd March 2006 The National Resistance Movement bigwigs whom voters rejected include 17 government ministers - one quarter of President Yoweri Museveni's cabinet. The most senior was First Deputy Prime Minister...
Vol 47 No 5 | SUDAN Names and blames 3rd March 2006 How did the United Nations Panel of Experts on Sudan pick its candidates for sanctions over Darfur war crimes? The confidential annex of 22 names, leaked last week,...
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...