Vol 46 No 2 | MALAWI His own man 21st January 2005 The long-awaited showdown between President Bingu Wa Mutharika and his predecessor Bakili Muluzi is under way (AC Vol 45 No 24). Mutharika has told his predecessor to 'shut...
Vol 45 No 25 | ZIMBABWE A heartbeat away 17th December 2004 By suppressing dissent in his party, the President puts at risk its ethnic balance The struggle for the succession to President Robert Mugabe gets sharper every day. His latest purge of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front puts his loyalists into...
Vol 45 No 25 | ZIMBABWE Morgan's method 17th December 2004 The opposition Movement for Democratic Change will benefit from the factional rivalries in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has told Africa Confidential. 'The...
Vol 45 No 25 | MOZAMBIQUE Guebuza's day 17th December 2004 Frelimo has won a huge but tarnished victory in this month's elections The result was not quite what Mozambique's young, post-war generation would have hoped for. President-elect Armando Emilio Guebuza, poised to succeed Joaquim Chissano after the elections on 2-3...
Vol 45 No 25 | MOZAMBIQUE Man with a past 17th December 2004 Armando Emilio Guebuza (61), from Nampula, was associated with the worst abuses of Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo). As Interior Minister during the transition to Independence in...
Vol 45 No 25 | ANGOLA Boom boom, China's coming 17th December 2004 Production is soaring, prices are up and Luanda is finding new friends With all the world betting on high oil prices, Angola's post-war economy is set to boom and to boost its soaring trade with China. The Finance Ministry credibly...
Vol 45 No 25 | NAMIBIA Correction 17th December 2004 In our Namibia feature 'Sam's successor' (AC Vol 45 No 24) we described the United Democratic Front as a 'former DTA component'. The UDF had an alliance with...
Vol 45 No 24 | ANGOLA Election, what election? 3rd December 2004 With money and political dominance, the MPLA isn't rushing to the polls After the war, democracy and prosperity. That was the mantra during three decades of war between the MPLA and UNITA. The reality is different. The victorious Movimento Popular...
Vol 45 No 24 | ANGOLA There's money in reconstruction, if you have friends 3rd December 2004 In the multi-million dollar post-war reconstruction business, the competition - political as well as commercial - is stiff. Job Capapinha has been brought in to replace Higino Carneiro...
Vol 45 No 24 | NAMIBIA Sam's successor 3rd December 2004 The new President will have to work hard to convince people that he is his own man President-elect Hifikepunye Pohamba's first test will be to address opposition claims about the running of the 15-16 November election which gave him 76 per cent of the vote....