Vol 7 (AAC) No 1 | GABONASIA Trees fall in the forest 4th November 2013 Inspections of Asian timber firms reveal violations of forestry laws by companies in Woleu-Ntem and Ogooué-Ivindo provinces The Direction Provinciale des Eaux et Forets du Woleu-Ntem shut down the sawmill of the Société Linshen Gabon on 18 October. Inspectors found that the Chinese company was...
Vol 54 No 22 | CONGO-KINSHASA Rebels on the ropes 31st October 2013 Barring a sudden intervention by Rwanda, little stands in the way of the defeat of M23 by a newly invigorated national army After 20 months of intermittent fighting and stalled negotiations, the rebellion of the Mouvement de 23 mars in eastern Congo-Kinshasa could soon be at an end (AC Vol...
Vol 54 No 22 | ANGOLACONGO-BRAZZAVILLE Lessons from Luanda 31st October 2013 Angola has been flexing its military muscles to remind Congo-Brazzaville exactly who is boss. In a security operation beginning on 13 October, Angolan forces seized 40 Congolese soldiers...
Vol 54 No 22 | CAMEROONVATICAN Biya and the Bishops 31st October 2013 President Paul Biya saw Pope Francis on 18 October to re-affirm, Biya’s officials said, ‘the longstanding perfect communion between Yaoundé and Rome’. Yet harmony between the various Christian...
Vol 54 No 22 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICUGANDACONGO-KINSHASA Kony keeps up the terror 25th October 2013 After 25 years of mass murder, the Lord's Resistance Army continues with impunity as African and Western efforts fail to capture its top commanders More than 440,000 people are currently displaced due to attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army across Central and East Africa. This is despite increased United States and African...
Vol 54 No 21 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC France wades in again 17th October 2013 Deep differences between the supporters of UN and European intervention in Bangui mean conditions will continue to worsen What the world is going to do about the Central African Republic’s slide into violent anarchy is not much clearer after the unanimous United Nations Security Council resolution...
Vol 54 No 21 | CONGO-KINSHASA To go or not to go 17th October 2013 The Speaker of Parliament, Aubin Minaku, shocked the country on 11 October when he announced in an interview on Radio France Internationale that President Joseph Kabila would leave...
Vol 54 No 19 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Regional risks rising 19th September 2013 Fighting in the northwest threatens to spiral outwards through the country and possibly the region as the new AU force arrives Throughout September violence has been on the increase in Central African Republic. In one week alone about 100 people were killed in skirmishes and many properties were destroyed...
Vol 54 No 19 | CAMEROON A family divided 19th September 2013 Two weeks before the legislative and local elections on 30 September, the ruling Rassemblement démocratique du peuple camerounais (RDPC) has caused a shock by recruiting Aminatou Ahidjo, youngest...
Vol 54 No 18 | CONGO-KINSHASA Holes in Kabila’s big tent 6th September 2013 The President’s aim of creating a national consensus is stirring up political discontent and the arrest of dissenters doesn’t help Establishing national unity under a modified constitution is President Joseph Kabila Kabange’s main concern just now, because that would give him the best chance of winning the elections...