Vol 41 No 25 | ZIMBABWE Still the boss 22nd December 2000 President Robert Mugabe held onto the party presidency at the special congress of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front on 13-15 December.
Vol 41 No 24 | ANGOLA Pretence of normality 8th December 2000 The ruling MPLA offers the rebels amnesty but no talks Cocksure of its diplomatic and military position, the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola has secured parliamentary approval of a new and renewable 60-day amnesty law that...
Vol 41 No 24 | ANGOLA Luanda looks to Norway 8th December 2000 Angola's go-slow on the development of its massive offshore oil fields is sending ripples through the world's biggest oil companies, worried about lower investment returns and profits. Luanda's...
Vol 41 No 24 | ZAMBIA A longer presidency 8th December 2000 Chiluba says he prefers prophecy to presidency but not everyone believes it Frederick Chiluba seems to want to keep his job, although the constitution says a president may serve only two five-year terms. His ambition could be frustrated if his...
Vol 41 No 24 | ESWATINI High price of kingship 8th December 2000 Politics get complicated when an absolute monarch changes his mind King Mswati III vies for the title of Africa's last absolute monarch with Mohammed VI of Morocco. Mswati is the more absolutist but his standing is falling so...
Vol 41 No 24 | MOZAMBIQUE Carlos Cardoso 8th December 2000 The assassination of pioneering Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso in central Maputo on 22 November shows the growing threat to African reporters.
Vol 41 No 23 | SOUTH AFRICA Mbeki mark two 24th November 2000 Local elections next month will test the President's new stance on AIDS and Mugabe President Thabo Mbeki faces his toughest battle for voters yet in local government elections on 5 December (AC Vol 41 Nos 17 & 19). A predicted low turnout...
Vol 41 No 23 | ANGOLA Open skies 24th November 2000 Everything looked rosy in July, when Britain's Minister of State Peter Hain, in Angola, signed a memorandum on air services with Transportation Minister Luis Brando. Foreign Minister João...
Vol 41 No 23 | MOZAMBIQUE Still resisting 24th November 2000 Post-war reconciliation looked shakier after clashes between the opposition Resistência Nacional Moçambicana and police on 9 November. More than 40 people died and over 100 were injured.
Vol 41 No 23 | NAMIBIA It's party time 24th November 2000 The ruling parties of Namibia, Angola, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique would work together to root out agents of imperialism in Southern Africa, said South West Africa People's...