Vol 59 No 14 | SOUTH SUDAN A seven-year hitch 13th July 2018 June's surprise Khartoum Declaration of Agreement, which saw both government and rebels recommit to a cessation of hostilities and work towards power-sharing was just enough to postpone planned...
Vol 59 No 13 | KENYA Full of sound and fury… 29th June 2018 Warm words from President Kenyatta about tackling corruption hold little promise of transforming an endemic culture of rot Grand corruption throughout society is being exposed on a scale Kenyans have never seen before – all, apparently, with the full support of President Uhuru Kenyatta. Such is...
Vol 59 No 13 | SOUTH SUDAN Scuttle diplomacy 29th June 2018 June's abortive round of the South Sudan peace 'revitalisation' process in Addis Ababa, convened by the eight-nation regional Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), did agree something. Riek Machar...
Vol 59 No 13 | ETHIOPIASOMALIA A proconsul retires 29th June 2018 The leading representative of the Ethiopian security services in Somalia, Colonel Gebregziabher Alemseged, better known in Somalia as Colonel Gebre, has been recalled. Since 2002 Colonel Gebre had...
Vol 59 No 13 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Abiy scores – so far 29th June 2018 An Eritrean Government delegation arrived in Addis Ababa on 26 June in response to the Ethiopian ruling coalition's latest peace initiative. The dispatch of the fact-finding mission by...
Vol 59 No 13 | TANZANIA Sparks still fly 29th June 2018 It's a year since the businessmen Harbinder Singh Sethi and James Rugemalira – alleged architects of scams involving the public-private Independent Power Tanzania Ltd (IPTL) – were arrested...
Vol 59 No 12 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Pushback peril for Abiy 15th June 2018 Addis’s radical offer to implement the UN’s ruling on the border is meeting resistance at home and silence in Asmara The Ethiopian government's announcement that it was ready to implement the 2002 border ruling to try and resolve the freeze in relations with Eritrea has met with worrying...
Vol 59 No 12 | SUDAN Offensives and reshuffles 15th June 2018 A new cabinet is appointed in the midst of an economic meltdown as the army plans to wipe out the rebels in Darfur The proposal by Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the United Nations head of Peacekeeping Operations, on 11 June to halve the UN-African Union peacekeeping force to 4,050 soldiers over the next...
Vol 59 No 12 | KENYA Jobs for Raila's boys 15th June 2018 The bipartisan committee appointed by President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga to look into 'building bridges' to achieve national unity has not reported, but a pattern...
Vol 59 No 12 | ERITREAETHIOPIA A radical bid for peace and economic change 8th June 2018 Abiy Ahmed will need strong backing from the party as well as his new security chiefs to make his new policies work A credible offer to end the war with Eritrea and the opening up of state companies to private capital are Ethiopia's biggest strategic shifts in over a decade....