Vol 49 No 15 | KENYALIBYA The Colonel's shopping spree 18th July 2008 Libyan investment in Kenya has grown over the past three years from almost nothing to an estimated tens of billions of Kenya shillings. The Libyans are now on a shopping spree, wit...
Vol 49 No 15 | SUDANANALYSIS Abyei - a border that shapes the future 18th July 2008 As the International Criminal Court laid charges of genocide against President Omer el Beshir on 14 July, Africa Confidential obtained a United Nations' internal report that blames the Khartoum regime for much of the death and destruction in Abyei in May. The report criticises the UN's shortcomings in Sudan but also notes that government bomber aircraft targeted aid headquarters and that local people regard goverment strategy as ethnic cleansing. The immediate trigger for the crisis over Abyei is Khartoum's refusal to accept a ruling made by the Abyei Boundaries Commission (ABC) under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement ...
Vol 49 No 15 | SUDAN 'If you have a gun you attack everything in front of you' 18th July 2008 The debate over the International Criminal Court's charges against President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir (see Pointer) has focused on the ICC, the fractious peace negotiations and ...
Vol 49 No 15 | SOMALIA Pirates of the Horn 18th July 2008 The brigands of the sea make big money and threaten their country with mass starvation Somalia faces a worsening food crisis, largely ignored in the graphic reports of clashes between President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed's regime and its nationalist and Islamist opponents...
Vol 49 No 15 | SUDAN War crimes 18th July 2008 Will Khartoum finally drop President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir, charged on 14 July with ten counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity? That is what Khartoum did ...
Vol 49 No 15 | KENYA Land grab 18th July 2008 Plots in the 3,000 acre Moi Ndabi settlement scheme in Naivasha were laid out by the government in 1994 for victims of ethnic clashes. They went instead to politicians, civil serva...
Vol 49 No 15 | KENYA Wako's war 18th July 2008 Attorney General Amos Wako's delays in prosecuting officials accused of involvement in the Anglo Leasing scandals (AC Vol 45 No 11) means the Kenyan courts may dismiss the cases th...
Vol 49 No 14 | KENYA A slightly cracked coalition 4th July 2008 The power-sharing government is shaken by scandals and tales of mass murder but nobody sees an alternative Three months after the painful formation of a grand coalition government (AC Vol 49 No 11), there is talk of a 'grand opposition'. Two developments encourage this. First comes the...
Vol 49 No 14 | SUDANUGANDA Kony causes trouble again 4th July 2008 The rebel chief Kony's refusal to make peace causes trouble between Uganda and South Sudan On 30 June, Southern Sudan's Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon ordered the Ugandan People's Defence Forces out of the country, accusing the UPDF of kidnapping and killing a S...
Vol 49 No 14 | UGANDACONGO-KINSHASA The competition heats up 4th July 2008 As oil exploration continues apace on Lake Albert, Uganda and Congo threaten to make business difficult for foreign companies Companies drilling on the Ugandan side of Lake Albert, which straddles the border with Congo-Kinshasa, had a rude shock in mid-June when President Yoweri Museveni announced that Ug...