Vol 41 No 13 | SUDAN He smiles and smiles 23rd June 2000 'We must have a calculated move to remove the sanctions'. This, Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail told the Sudanese newspaper El Rai el Aam on 8 June, was...
Vol 41 No 13 | RWANDAUGANDA After Kisangani 23rd June 2000 After the third, bloodiest, confrontation between the armies of Uganda and Rwanda on 5-10 June, Kisangani has now officially been demilitarised. The United Nations Special Representative in Congo-Kinshasa,...
Vol 41 No 13 | DJIBOUTISOMALIA Time to talk 23rd June 2000 The Somali National Peace Conference in Djibouti finished six weeks of initial consultations and moved on last week to phase two (AC Vol 41 No 7). Hundreds of...
Vol 41 No 13 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Time of reckoning 23rd June 2000 The agreement signed on 18 June in Algiers has little to recommend it to Eritrea. Only after a comprehensive peace agreement - still some way off - is...
Vol 41 No 11 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Force majeure 26th May 2000 Ethiopia simplifies the military situation but complicates the political game Ethiopia's war aims have expanded exponentially as its soldiers have advanced. Though still formally committed to no more than forcing Eritrea out of the remaining areas it occupied...
Vol 41 No 11 | KENYA Linking in the Luo 26th May 2000 President Daniel arap Moi and his team are jubilant. They have effectively derailed the broad-based constitutional review (AC Vol 41 Nos 2 & 6) which Moi was forced...
Vol 41 No 11 | SUDAN In and out 26th May 2000 Sudan's project to make its presence felt at the United Nations continues, despite UN sanctions against it. After winning a vice-presidency of the UN Human Rights Commission in...
Vol 41 No 10 | SUDAN Whitewashing reality 12th May 2000 Western ambiguities on human rights policy help the Islamist regime The high drama (and useful diversion) acted out between President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and National Islamic Front-founder Hassan Abdullah el Turabi is heating up again. It...
Vol 41 No 9 | UGANDA One way street 28th April 2000 President Museveni will win his referendum but at a high price The President is crisscrossing the country on a campaign he is bound to win. A referendum on political systems, to be held in two months' time under the...
Vol 41 No 9 | UGANDA Who's who in the NRM 28th April 2000 'No party politics' is producing a surprising divergence of views and interests In June President Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Movement is defending its opposition to multi-party politics in a national referendum. It is set to win the referendum comfortably...