Vol 46 No 21 | KENYA A proxy election 21st October 2005 Orange Revolutionarie smell victory over Banana Republicans in the constitution campaign National elections are not due until December 2007 but Kenya is the middle of a bizarre election contest between two factions of the same cabinet. On paper, the...
Vol 46 No 21 | TANZANIA Island story 21st October 2005 Support is growing for the opposition Civic United Front (CUF) in Zanzibar ahead of the 30 October national elections, amidst a growing military presence on the islands with...
Vol 46 No 20 | SUDAN In the driving seat 7th October 2005 Khartoum's Islamists are confident of dominating the Government of National Unity The list of appointments to the new Government of National Unity (GNU) confirms that it is not much concerned about national unity. The National Islamic Front/National Congress Party...
Vol 46 No 20 | SUDAN Bad marriage vows 7th October 2005 Under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the National Congress Party (NCP) aka National Islamic Front (NIF) gets 52 per cent of ministers in the Government of National Unity, the...
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...