Vol 45 No 12 | SUDAN Peace without honour 11th June 2004 The Khartoum government's genocide in Darfur overshadows the North-South peace deal 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...
Vol 45 No 12 | SUDAN A good deal missing 11th June 2004 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...
Vol 45 No 12 | SUDAN The road from Nyala to El Geneina 11th June 2004 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...
Vol 45 No 11 | KENYA Fighting mighty magendo 28th May 2004 After 18 months in power, the government faces some critical tests in its anti-corruption struggle '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...
Vol 45 No 11 | KENYA Nairobi's nomenklatura 28th May 2004 An emerging elite of business people and politicians is jockeying for influence and contracts 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...
Vol 45 No 11 | UGANDA People's power 28th May 2004 President Museveni's third term bid is splitting the governing party he so patiently built 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...
Vol 45 No 11 | UGANDA The LRA fights on 28th May 2004 After a brief rest, the Lord's Resistance Army under Joseph Kony has slaughtered more defenceless civilians in displaced camps in northern Uganda. In Pagak on 16 May, the...
Vol 45 No 11 | SUDAN A long, long wait 28th May 2004 The day-long delay in signing the latest protocol between the National Islamic Front governmentment and the Sudan People's Liberation Army in Kenya on 26 May points to disagreements...
Vol 45 No 10 | SUDAN Desperate Darfur 14th May 2004 The government continues to block humanitarian aid and a third of a million lives are at risk It was an operation typical of the one-two punch used in Darfur by the government's regular forces, hand in glove with the irregular forces known as Janjaweed. The...
Vol 45 No 10 | SUDAN A rebel's story 14th May 2004 The commander of the Sudan Liberation Army's Messalit forces, Khamis Abdullah Abaker, was one of the first villagers to organise self-defence units. He described how in 1998-2003, he...