Vol 45 No 22 | RWANDA Militant diplomacy 5th November 2004 Kigali's muscular foreign policy has won a grudging respect A decade after, most of the regime's diplomatic responses are still conditioned by the genocide and the failure of the United Nations and Western states to help stop...
Vol 45 No 21 | SUDANUNITED STATES Specially designated 22nd October 2004 After declaring the Islamic African Relief Agency and five senior officials 'Specially Designated Global Terrorists' on 13 October, the United States may now ask the United Nations Sanctions...
Vol 45 No 20 | BURUNDI The timetable slips 8th October 2004 Politicians scramble for power as the transition's end draws near The transitional government is due to step down on 1 November and - unless swift action is taken - a dangerous power vacuum looms. The 20 October referendum...
Vol 45 No 20 | KENYA In the IMF fold - just 8th October 2004 Nerves were calmed in the coalition government on 24 September when the International Monetary Fund agreed to release the second part of a US$36 million loan. The cash...
Vol 45 No 19 | SUDAN Spinning on the edge 24th September 2004 As Western governments fumble for a policy, the NIF keeps up the dissembling As Sudan government attacks on civilians continue in Darfur and as Washington at last calls the slaughter 'genocide', United States' and British diplomats argue perversely that for the...
Vol 45 No 19 | SUDAN Good neighbours, bad neighbours 24th September 2004 Chad lives precariously, even without the Darfur crisis on its eastern border (AC Vol 45 No 18). That disaster has turned President Idriss Déby against Khartoum, as he...
Vol 45 No 19 | UGANDA Now for the contest 24th September 2004 Museveni wants many parties, as long as his own provides the president Months after it was due, a new phase of Ugandan politics began on 21 September, when Hajat Janat Mukwaya, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, set out the...
Vol 45 No 18 | SUDANUNITED NATIONS Forty days 10th September 2004 The United Nations Security Council looks set to fail another critical test: whether it has the will to protect civilians in Darfur from being slaughtered by their own...
Vol 45 No 17 | SUDAN Darfur's turning point 27th August 2004 Without international peacekeepers the massacres will continue In a few weeks, the direction of the Darfur crisis should be clearer: if the pressure for an international peacekeeping force and sustained pressure on the National Islamic...
Vol 45 No 16 | SUDAN Fighting the foreign front 6th August 2004 The Darfur massacres have finally put the NIF government back on the international watchlist - but it believes it can evade more serious sanctions The Darfur war is intensifying on two fronts - on the scorched scrublands of western Sudan, where more than 50,000 civilians have been killed already, and on the...