Facing total disaster after a reshuffle fiasco last week in which a third of the new ministers turned down their appointments, President Mwai Kibaki has managed to entice Musikari ...

Not content with being the Mother of the Nation and the leading pro-abstinence and anti-condom campaigner, Uganda's First Lady Janet Museveni is penetrating the political arena. Ma...

To make sense of his defeat in the constitutional referendum on 21 November, President Mwai Kibaki must choose between crushing his opponents or coopting them. The referendum campa...

The referendum has relaunched or unmade several political careers: Raila Odinga: The referendum brought his rivalry with President Mwai Kibaki to a head. Their 2002 alliance to ous...

In Africa, as across the world, water is a hot topic. The hottest current debate is about whether its supply should be organised by private companies or, as has been the case, by g...

The ruling party is on the defensive. Its brutal response to opposition protests at election irregularities and the criticism which that has aroused, may mark its transformation. A...

Diplomats coughed and wiped their eyes as they left the Chief Magistrate's Court. An ill wind had blown tear-gas past the Court, where the strongest opposition leader, Colonel (ret...

The government now looks likely to lose the 21 November constitutional referendum, barring a last-minute swing of voter sentiment. Some 42 per cent of Kenyans polled by the indepen...

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's two big political rivals have returned from exile and sparked major new challenges to the President and the ruling National Resistance Movement (...

Too many observers think of the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) as an ill-disciplined bunch of ghost soldiers flying about in junk helicopters. President Yoweri Kaguta Museve...