Vol 44 No 20 | RWANDA Bedding down 10th October 2003 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...
Vol 44 No 19 | KENYA Murder most foul, again 26th September 2003 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...
Vol 44 No 19 | KENYA Facing Mount Kenya 26th September 2003 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...
Vol 44 No 19 | UGANDA In come the vigilantes 26th September 2003 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...
Vol 44 No 19 | UGANDA Model reformer stumbles 26th September 2003 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...
Vol 44 No 19 | SEYCHELLES Murder in paradise 26th September 2003 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,...
Vol 44 No 18 | UGANDA Dr Faustus, I presume 12th September 2003 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...
Vol 44 No 18 | ERITREAETHIOPIA War drift 12th September 2003 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...
Vol 44 No 17 | RWANDA A victory foretold 29th August 2003 Kagame defeats ethnic arithmetic in the first presidential poll since the genocide of 1994 General Paul Kagame was right when, a few days before the presidential election on 25 August, he told Africa Confidential: 'Most likely I am going to win. ...
Vol 44 No 17 | RWANDA Winning hearts and budgets 29th August 2003 Doubts about President Paul Kagame's landslide election victory are unlikely to bring a fall in Western aid to Kigali but funding will come under heavier scrutiny as concern...