Vol 56 No 7 | SUDAN Fresh doubts over polls 3rd April 2015 The government shuns its own National Dialogue policy, raising more questions about this month’s elections The ruling National Congress Party (NCP)'s refusal to attend a preparatory meeting with the opposition Sudan Call Forces in Addis Ababa on 29-30 March suggests it has dumped...
Vol 56 No 7 | SUDAN Positive deterrence 3rd April 2015 Labelled 'Top Secret', a National Congress Party document, '2015 Elections: An organisational perspective', leaked out late last year. The 28-page NCP strategy was dated January 2014 but appeared...
Vol 56 No 7 | EGYPTETHIOPIA Grand union on show 3rd April 2015 The new tripartite accord over the US$4.8 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam may not provide the resolution to arguments over the use of the Nile waters that the...
Vol 56 No 7 | SUDAN One-way ticket 31st March 2015 The government tries to distance itself from the radicalisation of seven British-Sudanese students at a private medical school in Khartoum The Islamist organisation in Khartoum which helped to radicalise seven British-Sudanese medical students who went to join the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria was disbanded days after...
Vol 56 No 6 | RWANDA No room at the top 20th March 2015 The ruling party is priming the public for a change in the law to allow President Paul Kagame a third term The campaign is now in full swing to amend the constitution to allow President Paul Kagame to stand for a third term. Pro-government media are running opinion pieces... READ FOR FREE
Vol 56 No 6 | BURUNDIRWANDA Lake murder mystery 20th March 2015 Little progress has been made in the investigation into dozens of bodies found in Lake Rweru Reports in August that dozens of bodies had been found floating in Lake Rweru on the Rwandan-Burundian border made international headlines and drew condemnation from foreign donors. Villagers...
Vol 56 No 6 | KENYA Presiding without policy 20th March 2015 Freed of the burden of trial at the ICC, Kenyatta can get on with the business of government. Yet few can discern any strategy Kenyans who have been wondering what President Uhuru Kenyatta's priorities for the country will be, now that he is no longer handicapped by charges at the International Criminal...
Vol 56 No 6 | SOUTH SUDAN To publish or be damned 20th March 2015 The African Union faces growing demands to release its no-holds-barred report detailing the role of top officials in ethnic killing As regional authorities struggle to break South Sudan's political impasse with yet another round of peace talks planned for Addis Ababa next month, the African Union faces an...
Vol 56 No 6 | SOUTH SUDAN Blurred lines and child soldiers 20th March 2015 A programme backed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) to demobilise child soldiers could be doing the opposite: prompting more abductions of children. It started so well....
Vol 56 No 5 | SOUTH SUDAN A test of everyone’s will 6th March 2015 After 14 months of civil war, the two sides are in last-chance talks with the threat of international sanctions hanging over them Talks between the Juba government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition, plus the group of former detainees, continued as Africa Confidential went to press. The two sides looked...