Vol 42 No 16 | SUDAN Possession in nine points 10th August 2001 On 26 June, the international Arab press began speculating about a new Egyptian-Libyan Initiative. Ten days later, the nine points emerged and became headline news. Some are reminiscent...
Vol 42 No 16 | KENYA Après Moi, maybe 10th August 2001 The President is on his way out – in his own time and on his own terms The fin de siècle has been delayed. Among party hacks, journalists, and commission agents, the gossip is dominated by Daniel arap Moi's exit from the all-powerful presidency after...
Vol 42 No 16 | UGANDA Banking blunders 10th August 2001 A political row looms after President Yoweri Museveni, his son Lieutenant Muhoozi Kainerugba and his brother Major General Salim Saleh were accused in court of being party to...
Vol 42 No 15 | KENYASUDAN Zero-rated 27th July 2001 Kenya's role as Chair of the principle Sudan peace forum is under threat after claims that it was negotiating to import oil from Sudan. Oil is at the...
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...