Vol 53 No 9 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN All or nothing 27th April 2012 Khartoum is fighting on three fronts: a determined Southern army, confident armed oppositionists and a hostile population When President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir told the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), ‘Either we end up in Juba and take everything or you end up in...
Vol 53 No 9 | SOUTH SUDAN A political and military test 27th April 2012 Church peacemakers and SPLA troops try to end a complex conflict Conflict on the border with Sudan may have calmed things in Jonglei, where South Sudan’s worst fighting had long been under way. Phase One of the government’s Disarmament,...
Vol 53 No 9 | TANZANIA The youth rebellion heads east 27th April 2012 Tanzania’s peaceful reputation could suffer as politicians mobilise unemployed young people in their campaigns A pattern of slowly mounting civil unrest is emerging as a major theme in Tanzania’s political landscape as an increasingly restive young generation ponders its limited opportunities. The...
Vol 53 No 9 | TANZANIA Police fail public order test 27th April 2012 The Tanzania Police Force’s effectiveness in dealing with civil unrest is questionable. It is not properly equipped or trained for public order and the focus of commanders is...
Vol 53 No 9 | TANZANIA Corrupt but open 27th April 2012 The parliamentary caucus of the governing Chama cha Mapinduzi is demanding that eight cabinet ministers resign after the Controller and Auditor General issued a damning report on...
Vol 53 No 8 | SUDANUNITED NATIONS UN clash over Beijing bullets claim 13th April 2012 UN experts’ reports differ over Darfur arms violations A seismic diplomatic row is rumbling at United Nations headquarters in New York over the circulation of a damning report by former UN experts pointing to the supply...
Vol 53 No 8 | UGANDACONGO-KINSHASA The LRA is down but not out 13th April 2012 Small bands of the Lord’s Resistance Army are going into eastern Congo and employing new methods to terrorise local people Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) fighters have left Central African Republic for Garamba, in Orientale Province in north-eastern Congo-Kinshasa. They are now concentrating on theft and looting rather than...
Vol 53 No 8 | KENYA Kibaki nervous over ICC 13th April 2012 Threats, rivalries and renewed ethnic tensions befoul the air as the international court’s suspects try to close down the case The two declared presidential candidates facing charges of crimes against humanity at the Hague are determined to ward them off. An unexpected cabinet reshuffle at the end of...
Vol 53 No 8 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN War drums sound as the South takes Heglig 13th April 2012 Khartoum mobilises against South Sudan and breaks off all negotiations The seizure of the oil town of Heglig by South Sudan’s armed forces on 10 April ratchets up Juba’s confrontation with Khartoum’s National Congress Party (NCP) regime, which...
Vol 53 No 8 | SOMALIATURKEY Turkish aid 13th April 2012 Turkey is underscoring its engagement in Somalia through development projects in Somaliland and Puntland. It sees the projects as proving to the United States and European Union the...