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Back-door deals

A final peace deal would be followed, eventually, by the lifting of United States' sanctions and an international aid package. Meanwhile, say banking sources, the Khartoum government is...


Monitoring minefield

A Joint Military Commission (JMC) of government and rebel forces supervises the ceasefire in the Nuba Mountains (AC Vol 43 No 10). On 10 October, the government contingent...


Bedding down

President Paul Kagame claimed more than 95 per cent of the presidential poll in July, so it was hardly surprising that the coalition led by his Front Patriotique...


Murder most foul, again

The battle for constitutional reform has become murderous and the fall-out could split the Kibaki government

The killing of university don Crispin Odhiambo Mbai on 14 September has thrown President Mwai Kibaki's government into crisis. Kibaki's nine-month honeymoon is over as Mbai joins the...


Facing Mount Kenya

At the apex of President Mwai Kibaki's coalition government, a Kikuyu cabal known as 'the Mount Kenya mafia' is tightening its grip. The group includes several former firebrands...


In come the vigilantes

The 'Arrow Boys' are doing better than the army in the war against the LRA

The advance of Joseph Kony's dreaded Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) towards Soroti, the main town of eastern Teso region, has shocked the government and caught the army by...


Model reformer stumbles

Uganda may be faltering as a model reformer but Western states and multilateral organisations still pay most of its bills: about 55 per cent of the national budget...


Murder in paradise

Worsening human rights abuses, including the apparent murder of an opposition leader's sister-in-law, have brought a threat from the European Parliament's Development Commission to suspend aid. The Commission,...


Dr Faustus, I presume

The deal to give the President another term in exchange for reform is crumbling

A growing minority within the ruling National Resistance Movement opposes another five-year term for President Yoweri Museveni in 2006 as well as the political reforms that his supporters...


War drift

The United Nations Security Council will renew the mandate of the UN Mission to Eritrea and Ethiopia next week but the border remains unresolved and there is concern...


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