Vol 48 No 7 | ZAMBIA Regional ructions 30th March 2007 Dealing with King Cobra and issuing arrest warrants for Congolese Governors signal a new activist foreign policy from Lusaka Lusaka has been off the diplomatic radar for years. That is about to change. In August, President Levy Mwanawasa is due to take over the Chairmanship of the...
Vol 48 No 7 | ZIMBABWE How to put it together again - as the Mugabe regime totters 30th March 2007 When the reign of President Mugabe and his henchmen comes to an end, Zimbabwe will have much to do to recover from the damage to its economy – and to its people Change is in the air and people are starting to think hard about how Zimbabwe can recover its wasted political and economic impetus. If the transition after President...
Vol 48 No 7 | ANGOLACONGO-KINSHASA A frontier affair 30th March 2007 Old allies in Luanda and Kinshasa are at odds over their border in diamond country A high-powered Angolan delegation visited Kinshasa on 14 March. It included Foreign Minister João Bernado de Miranda, Interior Minister Leal Monteiro 'Ngongo', Chief-of-Staff General Francisco Furtado, National Police...
Vol 48 No 7 | ANGOLA Oil's new power 30th March 2007 Economy Angola's oil-backed rulers are standing proud on the international scene. In the last three months, Angola has joined the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC); pulled out of...
Vol 48 No 6 | ZIMBABWE Beware the Ides of March 16th March 2007 Some of President Robert Mugabe's oldest allies want him to leave – but who will play Brutus? By overreacting to an opposition demonstration and savagely beating its leader Morgan Tsvangirai, the police in Harare served their master badly. President Robert Mugabe was already under stiff...
Vol 48 No 6 | ZIMBABWE Cash and blood on the streets 16th March 2007 The lack of serious diplomatic pressure for change in Zimbabwe goes together with an almost total lack of planning for the aftermath of President Robert Mugabe's exit from...
Vol 48 No 6 | MALAWI Muluzi the Third 16th March 2007 Ex-President Bakili Muluzi finally announced, to a large rally of his United Democratic Front on 11 March, that he will be its candidate for the 2009 presidential election....
Vol 48 No 6 | ANGOLA Discontent in the air 16th March 2007 The facade sometimes cracks. Angola's state media habitually promote the governing Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) but, for two hours on 12 March, Rádio Nacional de...
Vol 48 No 5 | ANGOLA Authoritarian alliances 2nd March 2007 Party stalwarts want a centralised dictatorship to develop the country. The government seems to be listening Angolans are waiting for a peace dividend five years after the Forças Armadas Angolanas (FAA) tracked down and killed Jonas Savimbi, leader of the rebel União Nacional para...
Vol 48 No 5 | ANGOLA Global prisoner 2nd March 2007 The arrest and imprisonment on national security grounds of Sarah Wykes of Global Witness in Angola's Cabinda Province draws attention to the government's clampdown. Global Witness irritates the...