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Seizing the day in the South

To succeed, the new government must be more than a triumphant army

The Government of South Sudan (GOSS) is waiting to be born. Its formidable task is to build a country from scratch and according to January's Comprehensive Peace Agreement...


Running the South

As the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement negotiates for a new Government of South Sudan and a power-sharing role in a new national government, its own leadership is opaque...


From the ground up

Along the old front line in Western Equatoria, the bush and the birds had taken over. Now people are beginning to return, some selling bananas by the roadside....


Storm warning

The national presidency seems safe for Kikwete but Zanzibar remains uneasy

By a surprisingly wide margin, the ever governing Chama Cha Mapinduzi last week picked its candidate for October's presidential election: Foreign Minister Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete. Nobody expects him...


Ship ahoy!

A legal and political row is brewing over an expensive new warship

Assurances to the Treasury by the Chief of General Staff, General Joe Kibwana, about a 4.1 billion Kenya Shilling (US$53.5 million) deal to buy a new patrol boat...


Biwott is back again

Three anti-corruption campaigners have left the scene as Total Man returns

The drive against corruption has run out of steam. President Mwai Kibaki's National Rainbow Coalition was elected in January 2003 on a straightforward anti-corruption platform (AC Vol 46...


Parliament comes alive

The government has failed to push a crucial bill through a parliament full of loyal members (AC Vol 46 No 8). The bill would have authorised a referendum...


Crime and no punishment

Western governments send Khartoum officials for trial one week and promise them aid the next

The bizarre spectacle of Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha glad-handing Western politicians at the International Donors' Conference in Oslo on 11-12 April highlighted the confusion among European and...


Milton stays lost

Former President Obote's promised return gives life to Museveni's re-election campaign

Democratic passions have been revived by ex-President Apollo Milton Obote, who announced his return to Uganda after 20 years of exile in Zambia but then said he'd changed...


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