Vol 42 No 15 | SOMALIA Transition to where? 27th July 2001 Though recognised by the Organisation of African Unity, Inter-Governmental Authority on Development and United Nations, the Transitional National Government (TNG, AC Vol 42 No 10) controls just a...
Vol 42 No 15 | ERITREA Nervy 27th July 2001 Nerves are jangling in Asmara after the resignation of the Ambassador to Sweden, Norway and Finland. Hebret Berhe boldly criticised the resistance to reform and democracy of the...
Vol 42 No 14 | ERITREA Crimes against the state 13th July 2001 The President still claims he won the war as his regime wobbles around him The ruling People's Front for Democracy and Justice is now deeply split. At the end of May, 15 leading members of the PFDJ's 75-member Central Council published an...
Vol 42 No 13 | KENYA Drive my tractor 29th June 2001 Moi's new coalition government, the first since 1963, is meant to scare the Kikuyu The government's announcement of its new coalition took even some of its members by surprise. On 11 June, the radio announced that Raila Amolo Odinga and his colleagues...
Vol 42 No 13 | KENYA Financial squeeze on KANU bosses 29th June 2001 It's not just on the political front that the ruling elite of the Kenya African National Union and its cronies are facing financial problems:
Vol 42 No 13 | RWANDA Kagame under siege 29th June 2001 The Kigali regime has lost the foreign friends that it needs President Paul Kagame made his name as a military strategist, the successful head of Uganda's military intelligence until 1990, then leader of the forces that conquered his own...
Vol 42 No 12 | SUDAN With or without Riek 15th June 2001 Efforts to reunite the two main Southern factions - John Garang's Sudan People's Liberation Army and Riek Machar's Sudan People's Democratic Front - have suffered a setback. Riek...
Vol 42 No 11 | KENYAUNITED STATES Follow me, follow 1st June 2001 The United States fears East Africa may follow West Africa into chronic instability. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, visiting Kenya last week, had two symptoms of regional...
Vol 42 No 10 | ETHIOPIA Lost hope 18th May 2001 Ethiopia's security chief, Kinfe Gebre Medhin, was shot four times in the back outside the Armed Forces Officers Club in Addis Ababa on 12 May. The murder hits...
Vol 42 No 10 | SOMALIA Independence vote 18th May 2001 Battling a powerful lobby for postponement, President of Somaliland Mohamed Ibrahim Egal is determined to hold a long-delayed constitutional referendum on 31 May. He wants voters to back...