Vol 45 No 9 | TANZANIA Troubled isles 30th April 2004 As the nation drifts quietly towards the polls, trouble looms offshore As Tanzania this week celebrates 40 years of Union between the mainland and the islands of Zanzibar, the race to succeed President Benjamin Mkapa after next year's elections...
Vol 45 No 8 | KENYA Kibaki's crowded diary 16th April 2004 The President has to take some tough decisions to rescue the coalition government The next six months will be critical for President Mwai Kibaki and for the future of his National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) government. After almost 18 months of power,...
Vol 45 No 7 | RWANDA Starting again 2nd April 2004 Military might and economic rigour have sustained Kigali's recovery Ten years after Rwanda's genocide, its economic growth is fast but much faster for some sectors and for some people than for others. The government depends heavily on...
Vol 45 No 7 | RWANDA On trial for genocide 2nd April 2004 The outpouring of grief and horrific memories ten years after Rwanda's genocide has been accompanied by a less dignified round of finger-pointing among governments, diplomats and journalists. It...
Vol 45 No 7 | SUDAN Under arrest, again 2nd April 2004 Darfur burns as the US deadline for a peace deal for the South draws near The National Islamic Front claims to have foiled a coup attempt but its arrest of senior military officers and NIF founder Hassan Abdullah el Turabi owes more to...
Vol 45 No 7 | KENYA Pattni's list 2nd April 2004 A candid 250-page statement from businessman Kamlesh Pattni, the man accused of launching the billion dollar Goldenberg export scam, listing 13 prominent members of ex-President Daniel arap Moi's...
Vol 45 No 6 | RWANDA Who fired the missiles? 19th March 2004 Kigali rejects French claims that its fighters shot down President Habyarimana's plane Diplomatic relations between Paris and Kigali have sunk to their lowest level for a decade in a new row over Rwanda's genocide. On 16 March, President Paul Kagame...
Vol 45 No 6 | ETHIOPIA Murder in Gambella 19th March 2004 Massacres near the Sudan border show the problems of ethnic provinces - and oil In December 2003, more than 400 Anyuak people were killed in a single day in Gambella, western Ethiopia. The massacre set off a wave of other murders and...
Vol 45 No 5 | UGANDA Double war 5th March 2004 Rebel massacres and party activists are shaking the National Resistance Movement's political dominance As pressure mounts on President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to leave power by 2006 at the end of his second elected term, both the military war in the north...
Vol 45 No 4 | KENYA Fading Rainbow 20th February 2004 The row over the constitution is splitting the government and blocking reform 'The one certainty is that this won't last', insist Nairobi's political veterans. Few believe the governing National Rainbow Coalition (Narc) can survive much past the middle of the...