(Arrests continue including on 7 June of Abdel Basit Abass Hassanein 57 an apolitical paediatrician in fragile health who was badly beaten and held incommunicado in a 'ghost house'); * fear of offending US Muslims and failure to distinguish 'Islamic' from 'Islamist'; * lobbying by some Islamic organisations and individuals; The tough Sudan line stems from three main areas of concern: * Ethiopia (and Eritrea) are viewed as key to stability in the Horn and Uganda (and Rwanda) as key to east and central Africa (dubbed in Paris the policy of the 'Young Princes' - Premier Meles Zenawi Presidents Issayas Aferworki and Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Vice-President Paul Kagamé)...
Vol 38 No 11 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
New Africans New LabourA debate in the FCO focuses on what officials call the 'New Africans' - Presidents Yoweri Museveni Issayas Aferworki and Meles Zenawi - who were assiduously cultivated by ex- Overseas Development Minister and Foreign Office Minister for Africa the energetic Baroness Lynda Chalker...
Vol 38 No 10 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Kagamé Eritrea's Issayas Aferworki Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi Angola's Gen...
Ethiopia is once more a force to be reckoned with as Prime Minister Meles Zenawi emerges from the shadow of his 'elder brother' President Issayas Aferworki of Eritrea...
Combining an assertive foreign policy hard-nosed economic reforms and a tight rein on domestic politics President Issayas Aferworki is cast from a similar mould to Uganda's Yoweri Museveni...
President Issayas Aferworki has decided 'that the time isn't right' for Eritrea to take over Ethiopia's redundant navy...