This week's military agreement between Rwanda and South Africa may be touted as African Union cooperation and regional peace-building. But some in Pretoria fear that if Kigali continues...

With perhaps 1,000 people now dying every day in Darfur, Khartoum is still defying even the mild demands made last week by Colin Powell and Kofi Annan. ...

In our article entitled 'Fighting Mighty Magendo', published 28 May 2004 . . .

As United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is taking the heat for UN inaction on the Darfur genocide, Washington is under mounting pressure to act. Worried about 'another...

The Naivasha peace deal of 26 May was signed under the dark shadow of the National Islamic Front regime's genocide in Darfur (AC Vol 45 Nos 9, 10...

Three documents were signed on 26 May in Kenya by the National Islamic Front regime and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army. The protocols were: On Power Sharing, On...

Between Kass and El Geneina, there was not one village that had not been burnt. Between Zalingei and Geneina, Africa Confidential counted 18 villages destroyed, some of them...

'Anti-corruption campaigns are good politics ­ they're popular with the voters!' a smiling senior official told Africa Confidential last week. That's true only if the campaigns work: Kenyan...

The business and political sands have shifted since President Mwai Kibaki took office in January 2003. Some loyal business retainers of the Daniel arap Moi era have been...

The desire to stay in power for a third term could prove the chink in President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's well-maintained armour. It has divided his National Resistance Movement...