Vol 38 No 4 | ETHIOPIA Route to the sea 14th February 1997 The government is getting nervous about Afars: their territory covers its main route to the sea and Eritrea's port of Assab. Military action in 1996 failed to break...
Vol 38 No 3 | SUDAN The countdown begins 31st January 1997 Northern and Southern oppositionists have seized territory from the government and look capable of staying on the offensive The battle for Sudan has begun (AC Vol 37 No 8). The opposition strategy is to follow military successes with a civilian uprising; against this is the National...
Vol 38 No 3 | SUDAN Shuttling to Arabia 31st January 1997 Arab governments'reactions to the Sudanese opposition's offensives have less to do with Sudan than with Israel and the United States. Many governments and newspapers echoed Khartoum's line: an...
Vol 38 No 3 | KENYA Old Nick's back 31st January 1997 President Moi's old friend rejoins the cabinet to mastermind politics and the succession Nicholas Kipyator Biwott is back. He has stayed close to power in the five years since Western donors successfully pressed for his dismissal as Minister of Energy. Now...
Vol 38 No 2 | SOMALIA The Sodere spirit 17th January 1997 Politicians have begun the year with a peace accord – but Hussein Aydeed stays outside A new year, a new faction agreement. On 3 January, after six weeks of pool-side discussions at the Ethiopian hot-spring resort of Sodere (AC Vol 37 No 25),...
Vol 38 No 2 | SOMALIA Itahad international 17th January 1997 Al Itahad al Islami, Somalia's main Islamist organisation, says that it intends to become a political party, to the unease of the National Executive Council. NEC members have...
Vol 38 No 2 | UGANDA Tough Tinyefuza 17th January 1997 A popular general is saying things the government would prefer to keep quiet The army is struggling with rebels in the north and west and faces escalating hostilities on the Sudan border yet within its own ranks, a war of words...
Vol 38 No 2 | SEYCHELLES High rollers roll low 17th January 1997 A foreign capital free-for-all won't be enough to rescue the economy President Albert René's government seems to have run out of steam. The money-men expect a devaluation of the Rupee Seychellois, followed, they hope, by a loan from the...
Vol 38 No 2 | SUDANCHINAMALAYSIA The oil front 17th January 1997 Sudan's National Islamic Front government (AC Vol 37 No 25) faces a military onslaught by opposition forces in Blue Nile province but Arakis is still negotiating to bring...
Vol 38 No 1 | ERITREA In the front line again 3rd January 1997 Asmara's investment drive provokes less interest than its adventurous foreign policy Combining an assertive foreign policy, hard-nosed economic reforms and a tight rein on domestic politics, President Issayas Aferworki is cast from a similar mould to Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni....