Vol 45 No 7 | KENYA Pattni's list 2nd April 2004 A candid 250-page statement from businessman Kamlesh Pattni, the man accused of launching the billion dollar Goldenberg export scam, listing 13 prominent members of ex-President Da...
Vol 45 No 6 | RWANDA Who fired the missiles? 19th March 2004 Kigali rejects French claims that its fighters shot down President Habyarimana's plane Diplomatic relations between Paris and Kigali have sunk to their lowest level for a decade in a new row over Rwanda's genocide. On 16 March, President Paul Kagame accused France of...
Vol 45 No 6 | ETHIOPIA Murder in Gambella 19th March 2004 Massacres near the Sudan border show the problems of ethnic provinces - and oil In December 2003, more than 400 Anyuak people were killed in a single day in Gambella, western Ethiopia. The massacre set off a wave of other murders and attacks on Anyuak (or Anyu...
Vol 45 No 5 | UGANDA Double war 5th March 2004 Rebel massacres and party activists are shaking the National Resistance Movement's political dominance As pressure mounts on President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to leave power by 2006 at the end of his second elected term, both the military war in the north and the political war in the...
Vol 45 No 4 | KENYA Fading Rainbow 20th February 2004 The row over the constitution is splitting the government and blocking reform 'The one certainty is that this won't last', insist Nairobi's political veterans. Few believe the governing National Rainbow Coalition (Narc) can survive much past the middle of th...
Vol 45 No 4 | KENYA Inquiries, no answers 20th February 2004 This week, another former senior civil servant, Finance Ministry Permanent Secretary Wilfred Koinange, accused ex-President Daniel arap Moi of ordering an illegal transfer of US$76...
Vol 45 No 4 | RWANDA Deadly anniversary 20th February 2004 The regime prepares to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the genocide Six months after his Front Patriotique Rwandais swept the board at last year's presidential and parliamentary elections, President Paul Kagame is still putting his regime in order ...
Vol 45 No 4 | RWANDA Friends wanted 20th February 2004 The military threat from abroad is at last diminishing. Tension with Uganda is subsiding in the wake of the most recent meeting between President Paul Kagame and President Yoweri K...
Vol 45 No 3 | BURUNDI Going Dutch 4th February 2004 Peace hopes are rising again after the 19-20 January talks at the Hague between President Domitien Ndayizéyé and Agathon Rwasa, leader of the only militia still fight...
Vol 45 No 2 | BURUNDI Cart before horse 23rd January 2004 An offer of aid may tempt the last rebel movement in from the cold The Bujumbura government and the international donors in the Forum for Burundi may have put the cart before the horse. In Brussels on 13-14 January, they put together US$1.32 billi...