Vol 46 No 4 | SUDAN Every single day 18th February 2005 As the killings continue, at last the UN considers sanctions, peacekeepers and prosecutions January's United Nations International Commission of Inquiry report on Darfur may not have concluded genocide was taking place but still may have shamed world decision-makers into action. Describing...
Vol 46 No 4 | KENYA Waterborne corruption 18th February 2005 Pressure mounts on President Mwai Kibaki to act against corruption after his anti-graft czar, John Githongo, resigned on 7 February. Opposition MPs and local campaigners are looking at...
Vol 46 No 4 | BURUNDI How can they vote? 18th February 2005 At last, Burundi's constitutional referendum is set for 28 February, or so says Paul Ngarambe, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI). The big political obstacle faded...
Vol 46 No 3 | KENYA Rebellion under the rainbow 4th February 2005 Infighting in the ruling coalition over election rules and constitutional reform further undermines President Kibaki President Mwai Kibaki faces a new schism in the ranks of the unstable National Rainbow Coalition (Narc) over his ultimatum that all its parties must hold elections by...
Vol 46 No 3 | KENYA The new flagbearers 4th February 2005 As the governing National Rainbow Coalition (Narc) quarrels over internal elections, Kenya's alliance system is becoming increasingly fluid and a new set of leaders is jockeying for position...
Vol 46 No 3 | UGANDA Operation Kisanja 4th February 2005 A proposed third term for the President upsets Ugandans' hopes for peace hey marched through Kampala, waving dried banana leaves and banners reading 'Operation Kisanja'. Some held aloft three fingers, showing support for a third term for President Yoweri Kaguta...
Vol 46 No 3 | UGANDA Pass the ammunition 4th February 2005 President Yoweri Museveni's government in Kampala remains locked in a bloody counterinsurgency campaign against the Lord's Resistance Army, a fierce and brutal pseudo-Christian cult backed, opportunistically, by Sudan's...
Vol 46 No 3 | SUDANBRITAIN Who's spooking who? 4th February 2005 Reports that British intelligence is training Sudan government spies raise awkward questions about policy following the 1 February release of a 244-page United Nations report detailing the involvement...
Vol 46 No 2 | SUDAN Joy in the South, silence in the North 21st January 2005 The peace deal shores up the regime but raises doubts about the eventual plan for Southern independence At long last, Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) has been signed, in Kenya's National Stadium on 9 January. Yet the participants have very different aims: the regime wants...
Vol 46 No 2 | SUDAN West of the border 21st January 2005 While accelerating its military build up in Darfur, the National Islamic Front government signed a peace deal on 7 January with the mysterious new rebel group, the National...