Vol 56 No 14 | SOUTH SUDAN War mars independence day 10th July 2015 Independence anniversary celebrations on 9 July were a far cry from the mass joy when the country separated from Sudan in 2011. The civil war, in which over...
Vol 56 No 14 | BURUNDI UN: 'unfair, unfree' 10th July 2015 The United Nations' election observer mission has condemned the 29 June local and legislative elections in Burundi, saying 'the environment was not conducive for free, credible and inclusive...
Vol 56 No 13 | ERITREA Let my people stay 26th June 2015 Eritrean refugees are at the heart of Europe’s migration crisis but a divided European Union is at odds about how to deal with them Once, European countries were happy to gently chide the Asmara government for the oppression of its impoverished people, but the flotillas of its people sailing across the Mediterranean...
Vol 56 No 13 | ERITREA The men Issayas depends on 26th June 2015 After a failed coup in January 2013, President Issayas Aferworki moved to secure his regime by cracking down on dissent and radically restructuring the military. He deployed trusted...
Vol 56 No 13 | BURUNDI Nkurunziza ploughs on 26th June 2015 The President's insistence on persisting with the elections annoys the AU. The EU is considering sanctions Local and parliamentary elections are still set to take place on 29 June but the presidential poll will only be held on 15 July after President Pierre Nkurunziza...
Vol 56 No 13 | BURUNDI Do as I say, not as I do 26th June 2015 Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of the Burundian crisis as viewed from the Rwandan capital, Kigali, is the unwelcome spotlight on third – and unconstitutional – terms of...
Vol 56 No 13 | RWANDABRITAIN An accidental arrest 25th June 2015 Britain's arrest of Rwandan spy chief General Emmanuel Karenzi Karake on charges of crimes against humanity was either an unavoidable European treaty obligation, a massive bureaucratic foul-up or...
Vol 56 No 13 | SOUTH AFRICASUDAN Fugitive flees as courts sidelined 18th June 2015 The main casualty of the Sudanese President's trip to the African Union summit was the rule of law President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir has again escaped the clutches of the International Criminal Court (ICC) but his disruptive appearance at the African Union summit and his...
Vol 56 No 13 | UGANDA Drawing the battle lines 16th June 2015 Museveni is making sure of electoral victory in 2016, but more and more rivals and defectors are chipping away at his support Speaking on YouTube on 15 June, John Patrick Amama Mbabazi declared his intention to secure the governing National Resistance Movement's presidential nomination, in place of President Yoweri Museveni....
Vol 56 No 12 | ETHIOPIA Win big, win all 12th June 2015 The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front is set to become what its critics have long accused it of being: a government without an opposition. That is what the...