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...
Vol 41 No 8 | ETHIOPIA Guns and butter 14th April 2000 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...
Vol 41 No 7 | RWANDA Bizimungu bust-up 31st March 2000 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...
Vol 41 No 7 | UGANDA Other infernos 31st March 2000 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...
Vol 41 No 7 | ETHIOPIA The blame game 31st March 2000 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...
Vol 41 No 7 | ETHIOPIA Silencing the critics 31st March 2000 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...
Vol 41 No 7 | SOMALIA Warlords at the gate 31st March 2000 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.
Vol 41 No 6 | KENYA Duet for donors 17th March 2000 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...
Vol 41 No 6 | SOMALIA Hope from the north 17th March 2000 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...