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- 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...
- Vol 49 No 18
- 05/09/2008
A hard act to follow
The death of Zambia’s president means that, not even two years since the last polls, there will be a presidential election before the end of the year. This has revealed deep splits in the governing party and disorganisation in the opposition. At ...
- Vol 49 No 15
- 18/07/2008
Abyei - a border that shapes the future
As the International Criminal Court laid charges of genocide against President Omer el Beshir on 14 July, Africa Confidential obtained a United Nations' internal report that blames the Khartoum regime for much of the death and destruction in Abyei in M...
- Vol 49 No 14
- 04/07/2008
One party rule
The ruling party looks set to win again at the parliamentary elections which are due to be held in September. Strikingly, nearly one in five Angolans belongs to the governing party, the MPLA. Nevertheless, voters will expect it to explain why the gener...
- Vol 49 No 11
- 23/05/2008
Grand coalition - its divisions and prospects
The grand coalition government that emerged from a power-sharing agreement has largely succeeded in halting ethnic violence
- Vol 49 No 10
- 09/05/2008
It's the price that counts
It is easy to find culprits for the food crisis in Africa, from the West's push for biofuels to China's newly well-fed middle class. The fact is that food supplies are short and prices therefore high in the short term - and probably in the long term to...
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