A public relations jamboree in Khartoum on 10-13 March tried to persuade European politicians and businesses that they are missing out on billions of petrodollars because of Western...
The overthrow of Colonel Mohamed Bacar's regime on Anjouan Island by 1,500 African Union troops and 600 Comoran soldiers took less than a day but does not guarantee...
A faction of the LRA is ready to come to terms with Museveni; the rest will move on to cause mayhem elsewhere
Suddenly optimism has broken out about the outcome of the long, drawn- out talks between the government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels. The mediators are so...
The US bombs Al Qaida targets and misses while the TFG holds secret negotiations with elders and the Islamist opposition
On 3 March, a United States' cruise missile hit a home on the outskirts of Dobley, a small crossing point on the Somalia-Kenya border. Dobley is in an...
Following the political deal this month, Kenyans are hoping for another deal to restart the economy. Conservative estimates put the cost of the post-election crisis at around US$1.5 billion and the loss of more than 1,000 lives. Yet the effects of more than 300,000 people chased from their homes and the disruptions to subsistence and export crop farming will hit the economy for months to come
This month, Kenya's economy faces it first big post-election test when the successful mobile telephone operator Safaricom lists on the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE). According to the ever...
Formed a decade ago, Trans-Century Limited has grown over the past five years to become the biggest private equity firm in East Africa, with a multimillion dollar portfolio....
President Mwai Kibaki and putative Prime Minister Raila Odinga spent the day together at the Karen Open, Nairobi's most prestigious golf tournament on 10 March. Spectacularly out of...
A compromise deal has pulled the rival parties back from the brink but much detail still has to be resolved
The two-page agreement signed by President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga at Harambee House on 28 February could hardly have been simpler. Drafted by Attorney General...
In the aftermath of the signing of the power-sharing agreement on 28 February, Raila Odinga turned to his adversary, addressing him as 'My countryman, President Mwai Kibaki'. Ever...
Beijing is changing its policy on Khartoum but on its own terms
China is worried about the 'deadlock' in Darfur and is looking for new ideas, its Special Representative for Africa and Darfur, Liu Guijin, told a leading Sudanese civic...