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From Central, East To The Horn Of Africa, It Has Been A Fast And Furious 20...
So, as we reported in “How Guns And Bombs Dramatically Redrew The Economic And Political Map Of East Africa”,...
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Meles Zenawi; Encounters With The Good, Bad, And Ugly Faces Of African Power
With Meles in his office in Addis Ababa, March 2006: In private he wasn’t the grim Big Man we saw most time in public. He could afford to smile. When Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi died on...
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CRISIS IN THE GREAT LAKES 1: For Rwanda Its Back To 1996…And For Tanzania Its...
Kikwete and Kagame in friendlier times. HOW MUCH worse can the crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) become? And how bad could the present “hostilities” between Rwanda and Tanzania, both...
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CRISIS IN THE GREAT LAKES 2: Is Tanzania South Africa’s Trojan Horse? And Why...
THE TWISTS AND TURNS in the story of how Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda have tangled and untangled over the last 35 years to create both the current face-off between Kigali and Dar es Salaam, and the...
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CRISIS IN THE GREAT LAKES 3: A Congo-based Rebel Chief Visiting Tanzania...
MANY questions arise from the second part of this series, CRISIS IN THE GREAT LAKES 2: Is Tanzania South Africa’s Trojan Horse? And Why Did Mandela Like Kagame But Zuma Doesn’t? You could ask whether:...
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CRISIS IN THE GREAT LAKES 4: How End Of ‘2nd Congo War’ And World Cup 2010...
Dos Santos and his family: He took to the hog, and what remained of his revolutionary zeal went to the bank with Angola’s new natural resource-fuelled riches. TANZANIA’S ruling party Cha Cha Mapinduzi...
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GREAT LAKES CRISIS 6: The End Of Western ‘Spheres Of Influence’, Death And...
Africa is a chessboard on which the most intricate power games are being played. ONE OF the biggest mistakes the world has made about Africa over the years, is to work from the position that it is...
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CRISIS IN THE GREAT LAKES – THE END: Kagame The ‘Saviour’, And Why Vulcania...
THERE have always whispers about a “Plan B” for the Tutsi in Rwanda, should international events conspire to allow the ex-Interahamwe elements in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), many of whom...
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Guns, ‘Foreign’ Armies, And East Africa’s New Long Security Wall (What South...
A Ugandan soldier and tank in South Sudan…there is more than meets the eye here (BBC photo) DAYS AHEAD OF THE SIGNING OF A TRUCE by the warring South Sudan parties in Addis Ababa last Thursday evening...
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Entebbe Makes Love When The Great Lakes Makes War: The Comeback Of A Lakeside...
“Mad Dog” who allegedly eats Muslims in revenge for the Seleka rebels killing his pregnant wife in Bangui! (AP/Daily Mail) JUST WHEN WE THOUGHT THE CRISES in Central African Republic (CAR) and South...
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