Vol 64 No 11 | CHAD Succès on K-Street 25th May 2023 Opposition leader Succès Masra and his party, Les Transformateurs, have taken on the K-Street lobby shop, Scribe Strategies, led by Republican operative Joseph Szlavik, one ...
Vol 64 No 7 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Seeking a way out of Kremlin's embrace 30th March 2023 The west is pressuring the President to cut ties with the Wagner Group but the Russians won't go quietly, as diplomacy goes into overdrive President Faustin Archange Touadéra is at the centre of complex plotting by western countries, led by President Emmanuel Macron, Central African Republic's neighbours, and i...
Vol 64 No 5 | CHADSUDAN Border troubles threaten the region 23rd February 2023 The Chad-Sudan frontier and the restive militias which straddle it are looming larger as tensions rise On 29 January, Sudan's military leader, General Abdel Fattah al Burhan, went to Ndjamena to discuss growing insecurity on the Chad-Sudan border. No surprises there, perhaps, but th...
Vol 64 No 4 | CHAD Kaka falls back on authoritarianism 16th February 2023 The President has abandoned the trappings of 'transition' and is consolidating his rule for the long run Many of the efforts to broaden the support base of the regime of President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno (aka Mahamat 'Kaka') during last year's reconciliation exercise included ...
Vol 64 No 1 | CONGO-KINSHASAAFRICA IN 2023 Horse-trading risks poll delay 5th January 2023 The President is trying to decide whether to contest or postpone December's polls while juggling his political alliances and musing on threats in the east President Félix Tshisekedi has been consolidating power, but that does not mean accountability and better governance are any closer than when he fraudulently won the preside...
Vol 63 No 25 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICSOUTH AFRICA Zuma subsidy for CAR ends 15th December 2022 South Africa has just ended a government subsidy set up by President Jacob Zuma for Central African Republic to run an embassy in Pretoria. Until November, South Africa had been fi...
Vol 63 No 25 | CHADFRANCE Bang go the reforms 15th December 2022 The credibility of the regime's bid for wider legitimacy is in tatters after it emerged on 5 December that a military court had sentenced 262 of those detained after demonstrations...
Vol 63 No 24 | CONGO-KINSHASAEAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY Scrambling for a Pax Swahili 1st December 2022 Kenya's entry into the Congolese crucible is driven more by hopes of diplomatic and commercial gains than military adventurism It is hanging by a thread. A truce, signed in Luanda with only the tacit participation of the principal antagonist, guaranteed by a phone call between Kenya's former President Uhur...
Vol 63 No 23 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASAECONOMYAFRICA Big Tech's ethical mining rules thrown into chaos 4th November 2022 A row over a scheme to outlaw minerals produced by companies using child labour or financing wars in Central Africa will hit global supply chains The world's biggest tech companies – including Alphabet, Apple, Samsung and Tesla – buying tin, tungsten and coltan from Central Africa face a supply chain crisis after...
Vol 63 No 22 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Conflicted over conflict 3rd November 2022 The international community's weak and contradictory responses to the fighting between the Congolese army and Tutsi rebel group M23 means that, apart from criticism from the United...