Vol 47 No 10 | KENYA The new two 12th May 2006 Top ministers fall from grace and the new ones may lack the weight to stop the rot Two new ministers are the main beneficiaries of the government corruption saga (AC Vol 47 Nos 6 & 8). Amos Kimunya was promoted from Lands to Finance, Martha...
Vol 47 No 10 | SUDAN The heart of the matter 12th May 2006 More is emerging about the state of health of Intelligence Director General Salah Abdullah 'Gosh', who visited Britain in March for medical reasons and talks with the government....
Vol 47 No 9 | CHADSUDAN Foreign fingers 28th April 2006 Since 2003, Paris has both backed President Idriss Déby and tried to prevent its allies discussing Chad. This has weakened Chad's unarmed opposition, which has anyway been manipulated...
Vol 47 No 9 | SUDAN Oddest bedfellows 28th April 2006 We hear that at high-level diplomatic meetings in London, Paris and Washington in December 2005, intelligence officers from Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, the United States' Central Intelligence Agency...
Vol 47 No 8 | SOMALIAUNITED STATES Foreign funds 14th April 2006 Disquiet is growing over President George Bush's policy in Somalia amid reports of an executive security order to arm a local 'antiterrorist alliance' in contravention of the United...
Vol 47 No 8 | KENYA The inspectors call 14th April 2006 There was a 'deliberate and concerted effort' to award a US$10-million pre-shipment inspection contract in September 2005 to Switzerland's Société Générale de Surveillance and Britain's Intertek International in...
Vol 47 No 7 | SUDAN Pressing for a deal 31st March 2006 After three years of mass murder in Darfur, the West is in a hurry for a peace accord to enable UN troops to deploy Mediators at talks on Darfur are scrambling for a rapid peace deal that would allow United Nations' troops to deploy in the region, where murders and rapes perpetrated...
Vol 47 No 7 | CHADSUDAN On the frontline 31st March 2006 Darfur's troubles are fuelled by violence flowing both ways across the Chadian border, some of it orchestrated by the Sudanese regime. Meanwhile, President Idriss Déby Itno clings to...
Vol 47 No 7 | UGANDA Khartoum's long arm 31st March 2006 The LRA insurgency drags painfully on, threatening Congo and Southern Sudan as well A spate of attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army over the last two months on the region around Yei in Southern Sudan has put the international focus back...
Vol 47 No 6 | KENYA In the hole 17th March 2006 The government keeps digging for corruption but sinks lower as it digs The clumsy midnight attack by government agents on The Standard and KTN Television, both owned by the family of former President Daniel arap Moi, on 1 March looked...