Vol 45 No 24 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Coming to blows 3rd December 2004 Somebody fired katyusha rockets into Rwerere village in Rwanda's northern Gisenyi province, on 15 November. Three people were hurt. A similar attack followed in Ruhengeri province. President Paul...
Vol 45 No 23 | SUDAN Murder by any name 19th November 2004 The NIF keeps killing; the West offers aid and debt relief The failure of the West's policy on Sudan - and in particular its failure to respond to the suffering in Darfur - was clear in the lead up...
Vol 45 No 23 | KENYA Golden trial 19th November 2004 The future of the official investigation into the US$600 million Goldenberg export fraud is in doubt. Africa Confidential has learned that several deadlines for its completion have been...
Vol 45 No 22 | RWANDA Militant diplomacy 5th November 2004 Kigali's muscular foreign policy has won a grudging respect A decade after, most of the regime's diplomatic responses are still conditioned by the genocide and the failure of the United Nations and Western states to help stop...
Vol 45 No 21 | SUDANUNITED STATES Specially designated 22nd October 2004 After declaring the Islamic African Relief Agency and five senior officials 'Specially Designated Global Terrorists' on 13 October, the United States may now ask the United Nations Sanctions...
Vol 45 No 20 | BURUNDI The timetable slips 8th October 2004 Politicians scramble for power as the transition's end draws near The transitional government is due to step down on 1 November and - unless swift action is taken - a dangerous power vacuum looms. The 20 October referendum...
Vol 45 No 20 | KENYA In the IMF fold - just 8th October 2004 Nerves were calmed in the coalition government on 24 September when the International Monetary Fund agreed to release the second part of a US$36 million loan. The cash...
Vol 45 No 19 | SUDAN Spinning on the edge 24th September 2004 As Western governments fumble for a policy, the NIF keeps up the dissembling As Sudan government attacks on civilians continue in Darfur and as Washington at last calls the slaughter 'genocide', United States' and British diplomats argue perversely that for the...
Vol 45 No 19 | SUDAN Good neighbours, bad neighbours 24th September 2004 Chad lives precariously, even without the Darfur crisis on its eastern border (AC Vol 45 No 18). That disaster has turned President Idriss Déby against Khartoum, as he...
Vol 45 No 19 | UGANDA Now for the contest 24th September 2004 Museveni wants many parties, as long as his own provides the president Months after it was due, a new phase of Ugandan politics began on 21 September, when Hajat Janat Mukwaya, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, set out the...