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...
Vol 45 No 18 | SUDANUNITED NATIONS Forty days 10th September 2004 The United Nations Security Council looks set to fail another critical test: whether it has the will to protect civilians in Darfur from being slaughtered by their own...
Vol 45 No 17 | SUDAN Darfur's turning point 27th August 2004 Without international peacekeepers the massacres will continue In a few weeks, the direction of the Darfur crisis should be clearer: if the pressure for an international peacekeeping force and sustained pressure on the National Islamic...
Vol 45 No 16 | SUDAN Fighting the foreign front 6th August 2004 The Darfur massacres have finally put the NIF government back on the international watchlist - but it believes it can evade more serious sanctions The Darfur war is intensifying on two fronts - on the scorched scrublands of western Sudan, where more than 50,000 civilians have been killed already, and on the...
Vol 45 No 16 | SUDAN Deaths mount, time passes 6th August 2004 Diplomatic failures are hampering efforts to hold the militias and their masters to account Bureaucratic squabbles and diplomatic evasions are derailing plans for a peacekeeping force to protect civilians or even ceasefire monitors in Darfur. No interested government has called the National...
Vol 45 No 16 | SOMALIA Parliament in sight 6th August 2004 By squeezing the delegates, mediators hope to get a faction leaders' parliament Somalia is about to be endowed with a parliament, say mediators at the reconciliation conference in Nairobi. They have been squeezing the delegates. In May, the foreign ministers...
Vol 45 No 16 | KENYA On the trail 6th August 2004 Pressure is mounting on the government to speed its probe into the Anglo Leasing affair and act against the Kenyan and foreign traders involved in it. The company...
Vol 45 No 15 | KENYABRITAIN Clay's feat 21st July 2004 Whitehall's envoy breaks with eumphemism and talks straight on graft British High Commissioner Edward Clay's poetic excursion into corruption busting has sparked an expected political storm. Less predictable has been the rapid unravelling of more corrupt deals set...
Vol 45 No 15 | SUDANRUSSIA The wrong planes 21st July 2004 With a deft sense of timing, Russia's MiG aircraft company has announced that is about to complete the supply of 12 MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters to Sudan.