Vol 43 No 5 | SUDAN Oilfield, battlefield 8th March 2002 The opposition regroups and threatens Khartoum's control of the oilfields The National Islamic Front (or National Congress) government has mounted a massive air and ground offensive in oil-rich Western Upper Nile to counter the regrouping of opposition groups....
Vol 43 No 5 | SUDAN 'Making politics and war together' 8th March 2002 The biggest successes of John Garang's four-day visit to Britain came not at his brief encounters with the government which had invited him for the first time but...
Vol 43 No 4 | SUDAN Unconstructive engagement 22nd February 2002 Western governments still don't get the measure of Sudan's resourceful rulers As one Special Envoy gives up trying to bring peace to Sudan, another pops up with the same mission. United States Senator John Danforth is expected to abandon...
Vol 43 No 4 | SUDAN Who's after Ali? 22nd February 2002 Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, First Vice-President, National Islamic Front (National Congress) leader and the country's most powerful man, is ill. A reported heart attack took him to Jordan...
Vol 43 No 2 | KENYA The generation game 25th January 2002 President Moi gives the grey politicians another chance in the succession race Inscrutable as the Sphinx, President Daniel arap Moi confers favour on one faction, then withdraws it the next day. Even his most vehement opponents salute his political cunning....
Vol 43 No 2 | SUDAN In a word 25th January 2002 The ceasefire for the Nuba Mountains which the National Islamic Front government signed with the Sudan People's Liberation Army in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, on 19 January, went (with NIF...
Vol 42 No 25 | RWANDA Everything is risky 21st December 2001 President Kagame prepares for national elections while his exiled military opponents regroup in Congo-Kinshasa In our situation everything we do is risky...' General Paul Kagame told Africa Confidential on 9 December in Kigali as he explained plans to open up the country's...
Vol 42 No 25 | RWANDA Donor diplomacy 21st December 2001 Donors heaped praise on Finance Minister Donald Kaberuka's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper launched in Kigali late last month. The PRSP has to be designed and implemented before Rwanda...
Vol 42 No 25 | KENYA Too much terror 21st December 2001 President Daniel arap Moi's loyal support for the United States' war against terror is hitting local difficulties.
Vol 42 No 24 | SUDAN Offal and waffle 7th December 2001 Many unusual cargoes have been delivered to Sudan in recent years, as former resident Usama bin Laden knows. Yet one of the strangest (though not necessarily most dangerous)...