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At the end of the Rainbow

Ethnically and politically, the Rainbow alliance is multicoloured – but it could still break up

As he heads into the sunset, President Daniel arap Moi has to face the fact that his handpicked successor, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (AC Vol 43 No 15), may lose the forthcoming electio...


Leaving the quagmire

Kigali's withdrawal of troops from Congo creates problems for everyone

According to a sympathetic diplomat, the Kigali government has 'achieved in eight years what has taken 50 in Israel ­ the loss of the moral high ground after a genocide against...


KANU at war

Self-declared politics professor President Daniel arap Moi is trying to bring his ruling Kenya African National Union to order before its 8 October conference at Kasarani to nomina...


Over the rainbow

The outgoing President Moi wants to pick his successor, despite the challenge from dissenters in the party's Rainbow Alliance

'There is no crisis in our country,' a stern-faced President Daniel arap Moi told a National Executive meeting of the ruling Kenya African National Union (KANU) on 9 September. Sur...


Peace talk, but is it real?

The main warring factions will meet, all of them split and militant

The Burundian government is set to start negotiations with the two most formidable militias left out of the 2000 power sharing agreement government whose Tutsi president, General P...


Not forgotten

The anniversary of the 11 September attacks has brought a surprise for the National Islamic Front government: the demand by over 600 victims' relatives for more than US$1 trillion ...


Don't praise the lord

Kony's northern rebels expose the ruling army's faults but Operation Iron Fist fails to defeat them

If it was the last kick of a dying horse, it was a powerful one. At daybreak on 5 August, a group of Lord's Resistance Army rebels led by Joseph Kony attacked a refugee camp at Aco...


Soldiers of tomorrow

The Uganda People's Defence Force is under siege at home and abroad. Its mediation in Sudan looks even less credible than its attempts to dig its way out of its greedy and failing ...


Muddying Machakos

The gap widens between interpretations of last month's peace agreement

The Machakos Protocol, signed by the National Islamic Front government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement in Kenya on 20 July (AC Vol 43 No 15), does not mean what it ...


Calling the shots at Machakos

Arch manipulation of American and British peacemakers buys the NIF another six and a half years' time

Breakthrough on peace!' shout the headlines. 'It's a sham, it won't work!' protest the National Islamic Front's opponents. Five weeks of closed-door discussions at Machakos, Kenya,...


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