Vol 44 No 8 | SUDANUNITED NATIONS Licence to kill 18th April 2003 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights has given the National Islamic Front government a free hand to pursue its policy of human rights violations. By refusing to...
Vol 44 No 7 | UGANDA The great U-turn 4th April 2003 President Museveni calls for the freeing of parties and the chance of a third term at the top It was the sharpest of U-turns. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, who has vehemently defended his 'no-party system' of government since he won power in 1986, now wants to...
Vol 44 No 7 | RWANDAUGANDA Soccer war, Congo war 4th April 2003 So it's war then. Uganda's daily Monitor was unequivocal: 'Rwanda, Uganda go to war in Kigali!' screamed the headline. In fact, the Monitor was reporting a qualifying match...
Vol 44 No 7 | KENYA Victory is not enough 4th April 2003 A row about government posts and the new constitution threatens the ruling coalition Two interlinked questions gnaw at the credibility of President Mwai Kibaki's government: will the presidency exert leadership in economic and political reform and will the ruling coalition stay...
Vol 44 No 7 | SUDAN War spreads 4th April 2003 A double tragedy of fighting and famine threatens drought-stricken Darfur (AC Vol 43 No 23). A major assault is expected by the National Islamic Front government which has...
Vol 44 No 5 | SOMALIA Playing by the rules 7th March 2003 After ten years of neglect, the United Nations arms embargo on Somalia is finally seeing action. The embargo was introduced in January 1992 but only last year did...
Vol 44 No 5 | SUDANIRAQ Bum steer 7th March 2003 The National Islamic Front government aims to persuade the West it holds the smoking gun on Iraq, we hear. To attack President Saddam Hussein, the United States and...
Vol 44 No 5 | ETHIOPIA Royal echoes 7th March 2003 The last Ethiopian leader to visit Britain was Haile Selassie in 1972. Last month, Premier Meles Zenawi also laid a wreath on the grave of a nineteenth-century Ethiopian...
Vol 44 No 4 | SUDAN Killing fields 21st February 2003 Oil money is again exacerbating the war. A consortium operated by state-owned China National Petroleum Company has made a 'very significant' strike in Block 7 of east-central Sudan's...
Vol 44 No 4 | KENYA Musyoka's message 21st February 2003 Foreign Minister Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka's swing through Washington and London last week reinforced the aid-for-security cooperation trade-off dominating Kenyan policy. President Mwai Kibaki's government will get military training...