Vol 55 No 8 | RWANDA Militant remembrance 18th April 2014 Formally entitled 'Kwibuka 20' (we remember), with the motto 'Remember, Unite, Renew', the concerns of the present were never far away from the commemoration of the past. That geno...
Vol 55 No 8 | BURUNDICONGO-KINSHASA Terms of abuse 11th April 2014 The President's bid to change the constitution to allow him to stand for a third term has failed The Kinshasa press loudly celebrated the failure of President Pierre Nkurunziza to amend the Burundian constitution at the end of March, a move intended to permit him a third term ...
Vol 55 No 7 | BURUNDI Taxing troubles 4th April 2014 Tax reforms – which almost doubled state revenues over the last three years – are at risk from Bujumbura's elite and disorganised aid groups What is going wrong with Burundi's impressive tax reforms? Insiders say that corrupt politicians and business people have been fighting back, trying to get exemptions and write-off...
Vol 55 No 7 | EGYPTETHIOPIA Dam leak hits Addis 4th April 2014 Ethiopia risks isolation in the row with Egypt over the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) now that the previously secret Independent Panel of Experts' repo...
Vol 55 No 6 | KENYA A year of living precariously 21st March 2014 The ICC’s case against President Kenyatta is in disarray but so are his own political forces and the managers of his grandiose public spending plans At the presidential inauguration of Uhuru Kenyatta last April, few would have predicted the chaotic current state of the Jubilee Alliance government. Then, almost his sole preoccup... READ FOR FREE
Vol 55 No 6 | TANZANIA Gas and hot air 21st March 2014 Progress, albeit hesitant, is being made on the vaunted gas economy and on the assembly that will oversee the new constitution With two months remaining of the current offshore licensing round, Tanzania is making slow progress in defining the shape of its new 'gas economy'. The challenge is to reach agreem...
Vol 55 No 6 | SOUTH SUDAN Talks or treason trials 21st March 2014 President Salva Kiir is hardening Juba’s line as Western governments threaten sanctions against those blocking peace talks Any parties in South Sudan – government or otherwise – trying to undermine the peace talks would face some form of sanction, the special envoys from the United States, ...
Vol 55 No 6 | RWANDASOUTH AFRICA The last straw 21st March 2014 Any escalation of the tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats after the 4 March attack on the Pretoria home of the exiled Rwandan General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa now looks improbable....
Vol 55 No 5 | SOUTH SUDAN Shooting in Juba, talking in Addis 7th March 2014 Regional governments plan to send in troops as pressure grows for a political settlement As the African Union discusses sending a stabilisation force to South Sudan, there is a glimmer of hope in Addis Ababa, where a new committee from all sides is due to meet on 7 Mar... READ FOR FREE
Vol 55 No 5 | KENYAUNITED STATES Jubilee lays into America, too 7th March 2014 USAID is accused of funding anti-government protests. Attacks on Britain and the ICC are routine but this shot across US bows was different When a few thousand demonstrators marched in Nairobi in mid-February to protest about bad government, corruption and insecurity, nobody was surprised. These complaints are, say man...