Vol 47 No 25 | KENYA Crossed lines 15th December 2006 Britain's Vodafone PLC and the Kenyan government face awkward questions about the establishment of Kenya's largest mobile phone company, Safaricom, following the discovery that a h...
Vol 47 No 25 | SUDAN Trade-off 15th December 2006 Growing tensions between Khartoum and the Government of Southern Sudan in Juba (see feature) may be linked to a new accommodation on the management of oil. Sudan is pumping over 50...
Vol 47 No 25 | SOMALIA Hotel Mogadishu 15th December 2006 The arrest of three Italian journalists by the Supreme Islamic Courts Council on 2 December in Mogadishu points to growing sensitivity to the SICC's jihadist reputation and to repo...
Vol 47 No 24 | RWANDAFRANCE La grande rupture 1st December 2006 A French judge warms up some old allegations and creates a diplomatic storm The break in diplomatic relations between Paris and Kigali will not heal quickly. It came after France's Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière asked a higher court to issue internation...
Vol 47 No 24 | RWANDAFRANCE Retaliatory justice 1st December 2006 If Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière obtains the international warrants issued in France, nine people will be targets for arrest if they enter the European Union and other countrie...
Vol 47 No 24 | SUDAN Defining the peacekeepers 1st December 2006 Four types of peacekeeping forces have been mooted for Darfur . . .
Vol 47 No 24 | SUDAN The Darfur deadline passes 1st December 2006 As the death rate of Darfur villagers soars, so does the confidence of the regime killing them Western and African governments talk of a UN 'hybrid force' to protect civilians in Darfur but it is the National Congress (formerly National Islamic Front) regime which is literal...
Vol 47 No 24 | KENYA Comeback couples 1st December 2006 Former President Daniel arap Moi's endorsement of Nicholas Biwott on 25 November as KANU Chairman instead of Uhuru Kenyatta was designed to scupper hopes for a broad-based oppositi...
Vol 47 No 24 | SOMALIA Resolution riddles 1st December 2006 The draft resolution on Somalia to be put to the United Nations Security Council by the United States this week, proposes the deployment of a regional force to support Somalia's Tr...
Vol 47 No 23 | SOMALIA Breaking the arms embargo 17th November 2006 A UN investigation shows how foreign suppliers of arms and fighters are fuelling a regional conflagration Ethiopia and Eritrea are the leading African states breaking the United Nations arms embargo on Somalia, according to an experts' report to the Security Council on 15 November. The...