Vol 1 (AAC) No 11 | KENYAJAPAN More competition for Tokyo 3rd November 2008 Tokyo promises to keep up its Africa momentum but is losing big contracts to China Japan would honour its promises to increase aid and investment in Africa despite the departure of Prime Miniter Yasuo Fukuda, said Foreign Minister Shintaro Ito during a trip to ...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 11 | SUDANCHINA Playing the odds 3rd November 2008 The new Consulate in Juba is the sign of strengthening relations between the Government of Southern Sudan and China A new phase in China's relations with Sudan began on 1 September when Assistant Foreign Minister Zhai Jun inaugurated the new Chinese Consulate in Juba. This was an historic move...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 10 | KENYALIBYAINDIA Three is a crowd 3rd November 2008 Efforts by Kenya to push a compromise over a refineries contract between companies from Libya and India over oil are proving messy Kenya finally has succeeded in bringing together rival suitors for an oil refinery rehabilitation contract - but failed to secure an agreement. The acting Finance Minister, John Mi...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 10 | ANGOLATANZANIACHINA Flying higher 3rd November 2008 Chinese investors are to rescue Tanzania's state-owned airline and rennovate Julius Nyerere International Airport Talks on a complex three-party investment deal between China and Angola and the ailing Air Tanzania Company are nearing conclusion, officials have confirmed in Dar es Salaam. The ...
Vol 49 No 22 | KENYA Calling politicians to account 31st October 2008 The Waki report on post-election violence names names, tells tales and could help clear up the nation's politics Kenyans feared another whitewash when Justice Philip Waki was appointed to head the Commission to Investigate the Post-Election Violence. Yet he has confounded the sceptics and pro...
Vol 49 No 22 | KENYA The Waki report 31st October 2008 Justice Philip Waki produces a devastating critique of Kenya's political class and business elite The mandate of the Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence (CIPEV) was to 'investigate the facts and circumstances surrounding the violence, the conduct of state security...
Vol 49 No 22 | TANZANIA Corruption countdown 31st October 2008 At last President Kikwete is pushing miscreants to return monies stolen from the central bank some might even be prosecuted Judgement day is coming for those individuals and companies who benefited from a 133 billion Tanzania shilling (US$117 million) fraud at the Bank of Tanzania (Central Bank), insis...
Vol 49 No 22 | TANZANIA Islamic alliance 31st October 2008 The government proposes membership of the Organisation of Islamic Conference and splits national opinion Foreign Minister Bernard Membe's announcement that the government was considering joining the Organisation of Islamic Conference has reopened a national controversy. A decade ago, ...
Vol 49 No 22 | SOMALIA The youth game gets older 31st October 2008 Al Shabaab claims attacks even when they have nothing to do with them, but who are 'The Youth'?
Vol 49 No 22 | UGANDACONGO-KINSHASA Kony's new front 31st October 2008 As the crisis around Goma intensifies, conditions further north are deteriorating, opening up the possibility of more regional intervention. In the mineral-rich Orientale, Ugandan...