Vol 46 No 20 | RWANDA Out and about 7th October 2005 The former Director of Rwanda 's External Security Organisation, Colonel Patrick Karegeya, has been released after being held for five months without trial at Mulindi military prison (AC...
Vol 46 No 20 | UGANDA Congo connection 7th October 2005 Where next for the Lord 's Resistance Army? Some 400 LRA fighters under deputy commander 'Brigadier' Vincent Otti crossed into north-east Congo-Kinshasa last month from Southern Sudan. But...
Vol 46 No 19 | TANZANIA All eyes on the islands 23rd September 2005 With the ruling party certain to win the mainland, Zanzibar will see a delicate balance Although the United Republic of Tanzania has a population of 32 million people and the tiny islands of Zanzibar have only one million, the eyes and ears of...
Vol 46 No 19 | TANZANIA Kikwete opts for continuity 23rd September 2005 The candidate of the governing Chama cha Mapinduzi for the presidency of Tanzania, Jakaya Kikwete, has been conducting a vigorous campaign all over the country and is being...
Vol 46 No 19 | UGANDA Moving the Movement 23rd September 2005 The threat of a boycott may be the opposition's most powerful weapon in next year's elections With the present rules and political climate opposition parties, even in an alliance, stand no chance of ousting President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his National Resistance Movement in...
Vol 46 No 19 | RWANDA Cross to bear 23rd September 2005 The arrest of a Belgian Roman Catholic priest has revived controversy over Rwanda's gacaca tribunals. With unprecedented speed, on 11 September the gacaca sent Guy Theunis, of the...
Vol 46 No 19 | SUDAN Control 23rd September 2005 The aid which keeps nearly three million displaced people in Darfur alive and which is critical to tens of thousands of returning Southerners is threatened by a new...
Vol 46 No 18 | KENYA Banana-skin vote 9th September 2005 There's many a slip ahead, in the referendum and its constitutional consequences Kenyan voters will be asked to vote 'Yes' (a banana symbol) or 'No' (an orange) on 21 November, in a referendum on ratification of the proposed new constitution....
Vol 46 No 18 | KENYA Githongo picks up the glove 9th September 2005 Exiled anti-corruption czar John Githongo is to return to Kenya next month to hand a detailed dossier on his investigations into parliament's Public Accounts Committee. This follows a...
Vol 46 No 18 | SOMALIA Roadblock 9th September 2005 The government cannot get to the capital, where Islamists and many others reject it President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed's plans for foreign troops to provide the security he needs to allow him to go back to Mogadishu are still blocked. After much international...