Somaliland has launched an aggressive effort to attract oil companies. At the African Oil Week conference in Cape Town last month, the Minister of Mining, Energy and Water...
The Addis Ababa newspaper Awramba Times has all but closed following the late November flight abroad of Managing Editor Dawit Kebede. It is the latest manifestation of Prime...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 2 |
- KENYA
- ASIA
Kenya’s coalition government wants to start a monumental infrastructure project but is having trouble coming up with the funds
The Nairobi government is rallying its Asian partners behind the new Lamu port and associated road and railway projects that will link the Kenyan coast to South Sudan...
On 28 November, Sudan’s Petroleum Minister Ali Ahmed Osman announced that South Sudan would no longer be able to export its crude through the northern pipeline and Port...
Vol 52 No 24 |
- KENYA
- SOMALIA
The war in Somalia gives President Mwai Kibaki’s government a leading role for which it looks ill-prepared
Six weeks into the fighting, unintended consequences haunt Kenya’s invasion of Somalia: rising xenophobia, terrorist attacks in Nairobi and other local insecurity, and changes in East Africa’s security...
Vol 52 No 24 |
- ETHIOPIA
- SOMALIA
Ethiopian troops have gone into Somalia to support the Kenyan deployment, although Prime Minister Meles Zenawi remains sceptical about the operation. Ethiopia wants to maintain its regional role...
As the political fallout over corruption spreads in Kampala, the legal battles are getting messier over US$434 million in tax which Kampala says oil companies owe it (AC...
In yet another bid to destroy Kony’s militia, President Obama sends in the Special Forces to help local armies
The Lord’s Resistance Army, based in Central African Republic since it was pushed out of Garamba, Congo-Kinshasa, faces a new threat with the arrival of 100 United States...
As the Sudan Revolutionary Front is launched, the regime tries to parry opposition in the North by bombing South Sudan
Khartoum’s bombing of a refugee camp in South Sudan on 10 November has drawn unprecedented condemnation and stirred fears of a return to full-scale war between North and...
Kenya’s military incursion into Somalia is less than a month old but is already the subject of contradictory statements by the government and its Western allies. Al Haraka al Shabaab al Mujahideen is under threat from the Kenya Armed Forces and their allies’ Special Forces and air power but the invasion also offers opportunities. Al Shabaab may be able to recoup some recent losses if Lower and Middle Juba end up controlled by Kenyan surrogate forces that alienate local people. The offensive shows, however, that the United States and its allies have faith in a military solution to the Somali problem. Kenyan forces are pushing towards Kismayo in a land assault that will combine with attacks by French and US forces from the sea to spell possible defeat for Al Shabaab in the key port. Yet with no political solution on offer, Al Shabaab could revive.
Kenya’s intervention in Somalia was first announced on 15 October by Minister of Internal Security George Kinuthia Saitoti and Minister of Defence Mohamed Yusuf Haji, and it...
Vol 52 No 22 |
- KENYA
- SOMALIA
Kenya’s confusion over its war aims proceeds in part from deep divisions within the elites and the fact that key actors support different Somali forces who have nothing...
A hardline faction in the government and the bitter disappointment of the former rebels threaten the country’s hard-won peace
The 26 October arrest of opposition politician William Munyembabazi by the powerful security service, the Service national de renseignement (SNR), has deepened the mistrust in Bujumbura. The capital...
Vol 52 No 21 |
- KENYA
- SOMALIA
After chasing kidnappers across the border, the Kenyan army is digging in for the longer term in Somalia
As the Kenyan army ventured deeper into Somalia, in its first cross-border campaign in 44 years, a regional grand strategy to deal with Al Haraka al Shabaab al...
Political and military oppositionists coordinate their campaigns as economic pressures mount on Khartoum
A new military-political alliance of northern oppositionists is determinedly confronting the Khartoum regime, just three months after South Sudan formally seceded. The two developments are closely tied: the...
The impetus for the opposition’s new determination comes from the military success of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states. The SPLA-N says...
Accusations in Kampala of high-level corporate bribery are as much about politics as business
Documents purporting to show that Ireland’s Tullow Oil made corrupt payments of 16.5 million euros (US$22.59 mn.) to Uganda’s Foreign Minister, Sam Kahamba Kutesa, and other state officials...
Vol 52 No 21 |
- TANZANIA
- BRITAIN
Confusion still surrounds British arms company BAE Systems’ failure to make its promised ex-gratia payment of £29.5 million (US$45.6 mn.) to Tanzania, as part of a global settlement...
Vol 52 No 21 |
- MALAWI
- SUDAN
Western governments seem unimpressed by the efforts of Foreign Minister Arthur Peter Mutharika, brother of President Bingu wa Mutharika, to persuade them to restore aid to Malawi. Concern...
Accusations of corruption in the electricity industry persist, as do the chronic shortages that undermine the economy and public services
A scandal in the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has brought attention to a troubled area of government, greed among members of parliament and Tanzania’s chronic electricity crisis....
President Kibaki’s heir-apparent mulls his defence at the Hague while his allies ponder whether to hand him over in the event of a trial
Throughout September, Kenyans were glued to television screens as the International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, presided over the confirmation of the charges of crimes against humanity...
Little appears to connect the UN-brokered road map for political reconciliation with the ambitions of Al Shabaab or Western strategists
The suicide bombing by Al Haraka al Shabaab al Mujahideen on 4 October killed over 70 people and injured hundreds more. This was the jihadists’ response to increasing...
One leaked United States cable must have pleased a Khartoum regime eager toescape the US State Sponsors of Terrorism list. A ‘confidential’ note from the Khartoum Embassy of...
A Chinese company is backing infrastructure projects to develop secessionist Somaliland and give Ethiopia greater access to the sea
Port and energy deals signed between a private Chinese company and the breakaway government of Somaliland should provide the region with the most important boost it has ever...
Vol 52 No 18 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
After seven weeks of negotiation, Salva appoints the first independent government amid concern about accountability and national cohesion
Although the first post-Independence Government announced on 26 August better distributed portfolios among the three Southern regions – with a visible power shift from the Dinka-dominated Nilotic bloc...
Vol 52 No 18 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
The biggest challenge for the new Juba government – and for many Southerners – is violence in some areas. Jonglei State in Greater Upper Nile is especially troubled...
Vol 52 No 18 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
The new team of 29 ministers and 27 deputies marks an attempt at greater regional and ethnic inclusivity, sometimes at the expense of experience.
The International Criminal Court’s case against Kenyans accused of financing and organising post-election violence finally got underway with the ‘confirmation of charges hearings’ on 1 September – and...
Just as Mozambique’s Resistência Nacional Moçambicana threatens to return to violence, the man who championed it at the height of its atrocities has surfaced in papers found in...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 10 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
- ASIA
Asian partners are queuing up in Juba to offer South Sudan, the
world’s
newest state, aid, peacekeepers and trade
China was the first to send a high-level delegation after
South Sudan’s
independence celebrations. Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi arrived
in Juba
on 9 August to meet President Salva Kiir Mayardit and outline
the...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 10 |
- SUDAN
- CHINA
With most of Sudan’s known oil reserves now belonging to the South
Sudan government in Juba, the Sudanese government needs China even
more. For Beijing, though, Khartoum may now be...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 10 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
Minister of Foreign Affairs, South Sudan
Lieutenant General Nhial Deng Nhial, who became South Sudan’s new Foreign Affairs Minister on 27 August, is preparing for a steady stream of global emissaries. One of the...
The drought has weakened the Islamist militia only temporarily and the political threat to the region is as serious as ever
When Al Haraka al Shabaab al Mujahideen retreated from Mogadishu on 6 August, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) was quick to claim victory. The United Nations claimed it...
Officers of the Haraka al Shabaab al Mujahideen killed January-July 2011. A tentative list; the full number may reach 50.
The ruling National Congress Party warmly congratulated Libyans on ‘their victory against their long-term ruler’, recognising the Transitional National Council on 23 August. Yet, as South Sudan struggles,...
Vol 52 No 16 |
- ERITREA
- SOMALIA
People starve, aid is inadequate, relief agencies are spurned and the region’s insecurities fester
The Horn of Africa’s worst drought in six decades has prompted the United Nations to take the rare step of declaring a famine in two regions of Somalia...
Bold plans to address political conflict and vote-rigging have been sidelined as the battle to succeed President Kibaki heats up
The groundbreaking programme for political reform set out in the new constitution is at risk as members of parliament and party activists position themselves for the presidential succession...
Politicians and police show no signs of investigating two people named as ‘drugs kingpins’ by the US government
Although the United States named John Harun Mwau and Naima Mohamed Nyakiniywa ‘drugs kingpins’ and froze their assets in the USA on 1 June, Mwau is conducting a...
Vol 52 No 15 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
South Sudanese have made history; now they have to make a future
Tens of thousands of jubilant and weeping people cheered South Sudan’s new flag at the John Garang Mausoleum in Juba on Independence Day, 9 July. Then, instead of...
Vol 52 No 15 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
As Ethiopian peacekeepers deploy in the contested Abyei Area, Khartoum’s strategy to keep it in the North grows starker. Northern opposition to the ruling National Congress Party is...
Vol 52 No 15 |
- TANZANIA
- BRITAIN
After Westminster MPs lambast BAE over the radar saga, questions about the accountability of Tanzanian officials remain
Hearings in the British parliament over the £29.5 million (US$47 mn.) BAE Systems must pay Tanzania over the radar affair have revived questions about whether any Tanzanians, especially...
Vol 52 No 14 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
After the celebrations, the Juba government will battle to meet its people’s dreams and handle relations with Khartoum
History is made in Sudan this week. Dignitaries from across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas flew into Juba, the makeshift capital of the new Republic of South...
Ethiopia’s peacekeepers will face heavy scrutiny as Khartoum and Juba differ over Abyei and the still undemarcated border
The Abyei Agreement signed by the Khartoum regime and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) in Addis Ababa on 20 June offers no respite for the more than...
Southern Independence is already affecting Northern Sudan. In an unprecedented scuffle with oppositionists inside the London Embassy, Presidential Assistant Nafi’e Ali Nafi’e was hit on the head by...
The Kenyan at the centre of the Triton Oil scandal, Yagnesh
Devani, argues his case against extradition to Kenya on charges of
fraud worth $38 mn. in London on 11...
Khartoum has intensified its war in central Sudan to crush its Nuba opponents and keep control of oil exports before partition
After launching another war against his opponents and threatening to cut off South Sudan’s oil, President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir will meet top officials in China next...
Under the new constitution, the DPP should be independent of the executive but the nomination of Keriako Tobiko prompts questions from MPs
President Mwai Kibaki swore in Keriako Tobiko as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on 20 June following an acrimonious vetting last week. Members of Parliament on the Constitution...
Internal divisions are deepening within the governing party over corruption and political ambition
Ructions in the Chama cha Mapinduzi over corruption and the succession to President Jakaya Kikwete are intensifying, while the party dithers over the expulsion of some senior members...
Fears are rising at home and abroad that Khartoum’s attacks could take the South back to war as Independence dawns
As the Sudanese regime bombs the Nuba heartland and moves Missiriya people into a near empty Abyei, tension is rising across Sudan, especially along the still undemarcated North-South...
Sudanese ministers are not used to being chased by protestors. Yet this is how Khartoum’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Ahmed Kurti left London’s sedate St. James’s Square...
President Museveni’s post-election reshuffle is more a political balancing act than a coherent response to unrest over high prices and shortages
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni swore in a new cabinet on 6 June that seemed to be mainly about rewarding loyalists of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) rather than...
The cash that Arab states are offering Somali politicians is doing little for regional stability
Mogadishu's troubled Transitional Federal Government (TFG) has taken another knock with a report by the head of the Public Finance Management Unit, Abdirazak Fartaag, revealing that at least...
The Hague is set to hear the case against the Ocampo Six as attention shifts to disclosure of evidence to the defence
The trials of high-level Kenyans accused of crimes against humanity during the post-election violence of 2007-08 are set to go ahead, despite their government’s efforts to protect them...
The Richmond-Dowans scandal shows no sign of fading away but a US company is starting to provide electricity
Much of Tanzania struggles with power cuts lasting 16 hours a day while the government tries to deal with the mess created by the scandal over the overpriced...
The Khartoum regime will face growing financial pressure after the formal split with the South on 9 July. That is partly why its Finance Minister, Ali Mahmoud Abdel...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 8 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
- ASIA
The Asian companies which exploit Sudan’s oil are holding on tight as tensions mount over Abyei and a new constitutional order is created in the South
As Khartoum and Juba discussed new oil arrangements in Addis Ababa, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) seized control of the contested district of Abyei on 19-21 May. Nevertheless,...
Bombing and looting on the North-South border this week may undermine Sudan’s formal partition in July
The Khartoum regime’s all-out military attack on and occupation of the strategic region of Abyei is part of its hardening policy in the lead-up to Southern Sudan’s independence...
1820: Official start of Southern liberation struggle, as just proclaimed by Government of South Sudan (GOSS); shows how important history is in Sudan
Sinister rumours and grenade attacks coexist with the government’s proud economic record
Weapons at the ready, soldiers and police line the main roads out of Kigali in the afternoons. Few of President Paul Kagame’s critics speak out within Rwanda (AC...
Burundi has a few things in common with Rwanda. One is United States’ gratitude for its soldiers’ work in peacekeeping: Rwandans serve in Darfur, Sudan, and Burundians in...
Vol 52 No 11 |
- DJIBOUTI
- SUDAN
In the face of growing internal opposition to his arbitrary rule and stolen elections, President Ismail Omar Guelleh has been strengthening relations with Sudan (AC Vol 52 No...
Vol 52 No 11 |
- EGYPT
- ETHIOPIA
Egypt’s revolution seems to have boosted prospects for a settlement with Ethiopia over the Nile waters dispute. Cairo’s interim Prime Minister, Essam Abdel Aziz Sharaf, made a cordial...
Vol 52 No 11 |
- KENYA
- BRITAIN
Britain’s Africa Minister Henry Bellingham was in Nairobi ‘promoting British interests’, officials said. However, few expected that to include delivering extradition warrants for two prominent Kenyans for fraud...
Vol 52 No 10 |
- ERITREA
- ETHIOPIA
As Eritrea looks forward to serious earnings from gold, the old quarrel with Ethiopia is heating up again
After more than a decade complaining that they are the wronged party, top Ethiopian officials busily explain their new campaign to overthrow the neighbouring regime of President Issayas...
Khartoum’s ruling party tries to hold on to its base in Kordofan, a springboard for operations in Abyei and the South
It was clear that Ahmed Mohamed Haroun had lost his bid to be elected Governor of Southern Kordofan when the National Congress Party sent Presidential Assistant Nafi’e Ali...
The May Day killing of Usama bin Laden passed virtually unmentioned by a National Congress Party government that worked hand-in-glove with him when he lived in Sudan in...
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni spent months – and US$1.3 million – planning his inauguration on 12 May only for a gatecrasher to spoil the party. While fanfares sounded...
Barons of the governing Chama Cha Mapinduzi accused of corruption are proving more resilient than expected (AC Vol 52 No 9). In March, the CCM announced it was...
Vol 52 No 9 |
- SOMALIA
- PIRACY
Pirates in the Horn are stepping up operations and threatening more ships but the international response looks weak and divided
At huge expense, the United Arab Emirates brought scores of
countries to Dubai on 18-19 April to craft new policies and raise
finance to fight the growing threat from pirates...
Signs that piracy is getting worse are numerous and stark. They include
higher ransoms, longer detentions of vessels and crews, and the use of
more and often larger mother ships,...
The President’s purge on grand corruption has not yet touched many of the suspect associates
President Jakaya Kikwete has reshuffled the top levels of the
governing Chama Cha Mapinduzi, in power now for 50 years, to
forestall faction-fighting and prevent the party splitting apart. He...
Following Museveni’s easy re-election, the security forces are making mass arrests and Kampala’s streets resound with gunfire and tear gas
A series of ‘Walk to Work’ protests against escalating food and fuel
prices has caught the public’s imagination and the government is
cracking down. Opposition leaders are under restrictions: Kizza
Besigye,...
The disputes over the Lake Albert oil licences and taxes which oil
companies owe the government show no sign of ending. Heritage Oil
should have paid tax to the government...
The 26 April dismissal of Lieutenant General Salah Abdullah Mohamed
‘Gosh’ as Presidential Security Advisor has raised hopes in Sudan
of a split in the National Congress Party. The NCP...
Civic activists and trades unionists are mobilising in Nairobi and
Mombasa against skyrocketing food and fuel prices. The Central
Organisation for Trades Unions demands a 60% increase in the minimum
wage...
Suspects played the ethnic card during mass rallies at home before flying to the Netherlands to appear in court
Six leading Kenyans faced, on 7-8 April, a kind of justice they are not used to at home. At the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, Judge...
The publication by WikiLeaks of the US Nairobi Embassy’s cables affords a unique and stark view of the country’s ruling figures
As the International Criminal Court (ICC) starts to hear accusations against six senior Kenyans accused of links to the violence after the 2007 elections, a set of United...
Vol 52 No 8 |
- SUDAN
- ISRAEL
Khartoum’s hopes of removal from the United States’ state sponsors of terrorism list took a knock on 5 April when Israel bombed a vehicle near Port Sudan, killing...
A spate of secret and exploitative land deals may cause instability and more economic hardship in the new state
Almost 10% of the land in South Sudan, due to win its formal independence on 9 July, has been sold or leased to foreign and local companies, according...
After years of regime denials, Presidential Advisor Mustafa Osman Ismail effectively admitted this week that the National Congress Party (NCP) arms militias in Southern Sudan. ‘We cannot tolerate...
Management/Leac for Agriculture and Investment: The most controversial deal in South Sudan is a the 400,000-hectare joint venture in Mayom County, Unity State, of United States’ firm...
Once again President Guelleh will win an election with no credible opposition and his Western allies will continue to operate discreetly in his country
Moves by the ruling Rassemblement populaire pour le progrès to squash opposition protests, coupled with the expulsion of an electoral observation group, Democracy International (DI), have made Djibouti’s...
Meles is increasing the rhetoric against his neighbour and wants the
United Nations to join in action against Asmara
Ethiopia’s blood feud with Eritrea is increasing in bitterness as Addis Ababa seeks to win more regional recruits to its cause. On 12 March, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 5 |
- SUDAN
- CHINA
Once an opponent of South Sudanese secession, then diplomatically agnostic, China is now making up for lost time in shoring up relations with the soon-to-be-independent Government of Southern...
President, Southern Sudan
Investors in Sudan’s oil wealth – China, Malaysia and India among them – closely watch Southern Sudan’s preparations for independence. The government has crucial decisions to take about...
Despite a dissident judge and government lobbying, the ICC is set to try
six politicians accused of mass murder and has issued summonses
Kenya’s government is still trying to dodge the International Criminal Court, whose Pre-Trial Chamber (PTC) ruled on 8 March that six high-level Kenyan suspects must appear at the...
Powerful interests stood in the way of a sound energy policy emerging but everyone wants to turn on the gas
Despite obstacles from corrupt politicians, the exploitation of gas is likely to gather pace this year with new offshore discoveries. The opening on 12 April of the fourth...
Songas consortium consists of PanAfrican Energy Limited, a subsidiary of Orca Exploration, CDC Globeleq and the state-owned Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC). Songas has operational rights over the...
Opposition politicians are to boycott the presidential election due
on
8 April, after Interior Minister Yacin
Elmi Bouh banned all
demonstrations, fearing a spate of North African-style democracy
protests. Ismael Guedi Hared,
leader of...
Just as the United States was preparing to remove the Sudan regime
from
its State Sponsors of Terrorism (SST) list, Khartoum has a hosted a
conference of international Islamists, including some...
Museveni’s victory was the result of astute tactics, state funding and a divided and despondent opposition
Uganda faces a harsh economic hangover because so many state resources
were used to win a decisive victory for President Yoweri Museveni, 67, in 18
February’s elections. Museveni and the...
Political tactics or public relations? The announcement of President Omer’s exit points to jitters in the ruling National Congress Party
The prospect of President Omer Hassan
Ahmed el Beshir stepping down reflects the ruling National
Congress Party’s dilemma over how to tackle growing domestic and
regional calls for political change and...
Vol 52 No 5 |
- ERITREA
- MINING
Issayas used to be suspicious of foreigners, but that was before a mineral wealth bonanza looked possible
The Eritrean President and leader of the ruling People’s Front for
Democracy and Justice, Issayas Afewerki, has long sought to retain a
closed economy and prevent non-Eritrean involvement in his...
Vol 52 No 5 |
- ERITREA
- MINING
‘Eritrea is not for sale.’ This used to be President Issayas Afewerki’s customary
response to interest in his country’s considerable mineral resources.
Now, as he faces greater isolation while needing...
President Kibaki is undermining efforts to reform the judiciary as he protects his allies from prosecution
The latest dispute between President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga began in late January, when Odinga accused Kibaki of failing to consult him about nominations to...
The biggest excitement in the 18 February presidential and parliamentary elections is the electoral arithmetic (AC Vol 51 No 1). Presidential challenger Kizza Besigye will never have a...
The death of perhaps 200 people this month, mainly civilian returnees, in attacks in Jonglei State, Southern Sudan, show the havoc that one militia can wreak. This militia...
There are growing concerns about the two million Southerners
living in the north after last month's vote for separation
Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of Africa's newest state
in July, was in demand at the 24-31 January African Union summit
in Addis Ababa. In the AU conference centre, he was...
Brutal attacks last month by armed militias on convoys of Southern
Sudanese returning from the North show the security crisis in
the borderlands and the danger of war over Abyei...
As democracy activists pressure entrenched regimes across Africa,
Premier Meles's government sets out its plans for controlled change
From a position of strength - there is just one opposition
member of parliament - the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary
Democratic Front has been setting out its plans to rebuild...
Opposition forces, some armed and some civilian, intensify
their campaigns against the regime in Kigali
Yet another former government figure has set up a political
movement in opposition to Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
Faustin Twagiramungu, who was Prime Minister in the first
post-genocide government in 1994,...
The clean sweep by President Pierre Nkurunziza and his Conseil national pour la défense de la démocratie-Forces pour la défense de la démocratie (CNDD-FDD) at the 2010 elections has failed to dispel fears that violence will increase further. The opposition claims there was massive fraud behind the ruling party’s triumph and since May, dozens of murders and over 100 grenade attacks have taken place (AC Vol 51 No 13).
Vol 4 (AAC) No 3 |
- ETHIOPIA
Ambassador to China
With his January appointment as Ambassador to China, Seyoum Mesfin steps back from the day-to-day battles in Addis politics. He will, however, maintain a central role in his...
After the jubilation of the referendum vote, six months of tough
negotiation and rough politics will lead up to the birth of independent
Southern Sudan
Joy reigned from Australia to North America and all over Sudan, especially in the 2,600 polling stations where over 3.9 million people voted in the South, as the...
‘Tunus, Tunus fis Sudan!’ (‘Tunis, Tunis in Sudan!’) shouted demonstrators outside Sudan’s London Embassy on 16 January. They were few but the protest is still a landmark. Several...
As Southern Sudan celebrates, neighbouring Abyei is a war zone. Clashes began on 7 January between a Northern Missiriya militia and well trained Southern commandos wearing police uniforms....
As the 13 May deadline for the Nile Basin Initiative Cooperative Framework looms, Egyptian efforts to stop the deal have become more apparent. The stances taken by Burundi...
As Southerners vote to secede from the North, some Northern politicians
see a chance to undermine the NCP regime in Khartoum
As Southern Sudanese prepare to celebrate independence after the 9-15 January referendum, Northern oppositionists talk of overthrowing the ruling National Congress Party. They have not spoken out so...
President Museveni seems set for another win but with a stronger, more
fractious parliament and the usual oil problems
The opposition parties have neither the will nor the capacity seriously to challenge President Yoweri Museveni’s government in the elections due in mid-February. Yet the opposition is likely...
Outsiders prop up a regime which moves slowly, if at all, towards a constitution and legitimate rule
Next August, Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government is due to wind up, to be replaced by a new government under a new constitution. Last July, the TFG received a...
After a film of a woman screaming in pain as Khartoum policemen whipped her for wearing trousers had gone around the world on the internet, the Government of...
The Kenyan Parliament has been tying itself in constitutional knots after passing a motion – which risks being in conflict with the new constitution – to repeal the...