East Africa
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- Vol 51 No 14
- 09/07/2010
Crisis on the Nile
The confrontation over the Nile waters, which pits Egypt and Sudan against the five downstream countries, is escalating into a major regional crisis following the collapse of a ministerial meeting in Addis Ababa on 26-27 June. Egypt and Sudan opposed move...
- Vol 51 No 14
- 09/07/2010
First to integrate
Kenya has moved fastest to implement the East African Community’s Common Market Protocol, which came into effect on 1 July 2010. In the clearest sign of the profound changes, Kenya’s immigration minister, Otieno Kajwang, immediately announced that citi...
- Vol 50 No 25
- 18/12/2009
A new regional peace effort
Amid formidable diplomatic obstacles in a troubled region, East African armies are building a new intervention force
- Vol 50 No 13
- 26/06/2009
Synchrobudgets
As they approach economic union, East Africa's finance ministers struggle to balance the books at home
- Vol 50 No 1
- 09/01/2009
Courts and killings
Regional leaders face a new impetus from Africa and beyond to bring political murderers to account this
- Vol 49 No 17
- 22/08/2008
In the dock for the bombings
A US lawsuit claims that the Sudanese and Iranian regimes plotted the bombing of two East African US embassies in 1998
- Vol 49 No 17
- 22/08/2008
The grounds for complaint
Below are key quotes from the 5 August complaint filed in a US civil court against the Sudanese and Iranian governments: 'The Defendant, the Republic of the Sudan, acting through the Defendant, the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of the Sud...
- Vol 49 No 13
- 20/06/2008
The region grows – despite politics and prices
The leading regional economies have rebounded from the effects of Kenya's post-election crisis only to face another dangerous mix of rising food and oil prices
- Vol 49 No 3
- 01/02/2008
Economic crisis without borders
Kenya's post-election crisis has exploded several myths about the strength of its financial institutions, its economy and the force of political and economic integration under the revived East African Community.
- Vol 49 No 1
- 11/01/2008
Election shockwaves spread
The farce and fiasco that marred Kenya’s election will prove costly and damaging to the whole region

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