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- Vol 51 No 17
- 27/08/2010
The battle of the Nile
Egypt and Sudan are playing a central role in the dispute over the Nile. They know they can no longer ignore the thirst for water of the seven upstream countries but are focussed on their own growing needs. The five states most concerned, led by Ethiopia,...
- Vol 51 No 16
- 06/08/2010
New pressure on the war-minerals link
Congo's 'clean' minerals are more politically toxic than buyers would like
- Vol 51 No 10
- 14/05/2010
Elections loom as Kabila comes under fire from all sides
Next month, Congolese will mark 50 troubled years of Independence from Belgium amid growing concern about security and development prospects under President Kabila’s government. Kabila and the ruling PPRD are feverishly preparing for elections next yea...
- Vol 51 No 8
- 16/04/2010
Le scandale pétrolier
The country now produces a paltry 25,000 barrels a day but the big international oil companies are lining up to buy their way into Congo-Kinshasa. Smaller companies have been locked in wrangles with each other and successive Kinshasa officials for several...
- Vol 51 No 7
- 02/04/2010
As elections arrive, the opposition shuns Omer
Sudan is set to become the first country to elect an indicted war criminal as president. Yet the elections are deemed so unlikely to be free and fair that, as AC went to press, the focus was on the extent and effects of the opposition boycott. Oppositioni...
- Vol 51 No 4
- 19/02/2010
Acting President Jonathan sets out his plans
From the surrealism of ‘missing president’ Umaru Yar’Adua, linked to the outside world via a ghostly voiced interview with the BBC, and with attendant disputes of legitimacy and sovereignty, Nigeria has solved the crisis in its own way, by effecting what ...
- Vol 51 No 3
- 05/02/2010
Southern leaders compete for a new state
There are fears that the thrice-delayed national elections, now due on 8 April, could trigger an escalation of fighting in Darfur and the South, given the probability that few will accept the results as free and fair. The Khartoum regime has failed to imp...
- Vol 50 No 8
- 17/04/2009
Museveni - from grand reformer to simply surviving
With his eyes on another five-year presidential term in 2011, President Yoweri Museveni has shaken up his cabinet, touted Uganda's future as an oil exporter and pressed for a military resolution to the conflict with the LRA. The only thing that could ...
- Vol 49 No 25
- 12/12/2008
More unga than chungwa
A year after the flawed elections, much of the fire has gone out of the once radical opposition Orange Democratic Movement. Odinga, the firebrand ODM leader, held a meeting for his constituents in Nairobi’s Kibera’s slum to thank them for voting for him. ...
- Vol 49 No 23
- 14/11/2008
The man who says no
Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda likes to compare his relentless campaign against the Kinshasa government with the military resistance of General Charles de Gaulle, 'the man who said no'. Taking the parallels further, Nkunda has announced the formation of a...
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