A multinational part-owned by the World Bank's International Finance Corporation is making a deal with Sudan Telecom (Sudatel), a majority of whose shares are controlled by the Nat...

The clearest thing about the accord signed in Arusha on 28 August is its lack of finality and substance. None of the key issues - such as the new constitution, structure of power-s...

Is there a new president in Somalia? Not quite. But Abdulkassim Salat Hassan, who took the oath of office on August 20, is the nearest thing the country has had to a recognised pre...

Some of the questions we ask may be too personal but our aim is to ensure that you will not become a burden on the British taxpayer'. This daunting message, posted up in Arabic, gr...

'We do not wish to be infected by the Zimbabwe virus'. That was how the head of Kenya's civil service, Richard Leakey, reacted to press reports in early June that squatters had occ...

Due to Transatlantic crossed wires, we said 'the son of TotalFina boss Thierry Desmarest is married to Canadian Premier Jean Chrétien's daughter, provoking discussions in pa...

The National Islamic Front government's bid to get United Nations sanctions lifted and claim a seat at the international table is reaching a climax. It could well succeed. Yet as A...

'We must have a calculated move to remove the sanctions'. This, Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail told the Sudanese newspaper El Rai el Aam on 8 June, was what he and Sudan's U...

After the third, bloodiest, confrontation between the armies of Uganda and Rwanda on 5-10 June, Kisangani has now officially been demilitarised. The United Nations Special Represen...

The Somali National Peace Conference in Djibouti finished six weeks of initial consultations and moved on last week to phase two (AC Vol 41 No 7). Hundreds of participants (some pi...