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Guns and butter

The tragic return of famine may just help efforts to end the war with Eritrea

The international reaction to the famine in Ethiopia and the Greater Horn is putting new pressure on Addis Ababa and Asmara to make progress in the next round...


Bizimungu bust-up

The ethnic coalition in Kigali looks dangerously fragile

An official of the ruling Front Patriotique Rwandais (FPR) described the resignation of President Pasteur Bizimungu as 'proof of a healthy democratic environment'. Vice-President and Defence Minister Paul...


Other infernos

The government isn't winning and can't afford its wars in the west and north

The systematic killing and burning of more than 700 Ugandans by the leaders of a bogus Christian cult in mid-March generated some sympathy for President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's...


The blame game

The ruling party exploits popular pro-war sentiment in its election campaign

It's still no war, no peace, along the Ethiopian-Eritrean border, as each side loads onto the other the blame for the lack of progress. Last year, Ethiopia bore...


Silencing the critics

The All Amhara People's Organisation, which claims to be a national party, cannot campaign without local offices. Nearly two years ago, it formally asked Premier Meles Zenawi for...


Warlords at the gate

More questions face Djibouti's proposed Somalia peace conference: nearly all Somalia's main political organisations have now come out against the gathering, scheduled for 20 April.


Duet for donors

The World bank is convinced Kenya's reforms are for real; the IMF is less sure

The government convinced itself that, by appointing a dream team of reforming technocrats under the captaincy of Richard Leakey, it had ended its credibility problems with the International...


Hope from the north

A new peace plan focuses on civil society but no one agrees how to choose the delegates

Somalis have high hopes of the peace conference scheduled for 20 April to 5 May. It is very much a Djibouti government initiative: it is to be held...


Offshore turbulence

The retirement of Zanzibar President Amour solves only one of the islands' problems

After months of argument, culminating in President Salmin Amour's threat last month that he was about to 'drop a bombshell', the Zanzibar saga appears to be over, at...


Secret Pipeline

The National Islamic Front government is quietly preparing a second pipeline from the south, with pumps again supplied by Britain's Weir Pumps. The NIF has said it wants...


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