Yearly Archives: 2009
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The U.S. Administration in Africa: Altruism or Oil?
It seems the White House and the Obama administration has made the African continent the focus of their P.R. campaign this summer. Secretary of State Hillary ... -
Special Tribunal Enactment: Why Cabinet, MPs, are Misleading Kenyans
Kenyans are very suspicious of the rare unity between the Cabinet and the Parliament as they jointly dismiss calls for the prosecution of the perpetrators of ... -
Kenyan Incremental Judicial Reforms
Judges deal in fear, pain and death. However exercised, judicial power has a tremendous impact on the socio-economic, political and cultural systems of a nation. Kenyan ... -
Sudan’s Fundamental Security Challenge: Poverty and Maldistribution
In the recent US Congressional hearings on a review of US policy on Sudan, little was said about the crushing burden of poverty that confronts the ... -
Abyei Beyond the Arbitration Decision
“˜Abyei beyond the decision of the International Court of Arbitration (ICA)’ was the theme for a meeting held in Justice Africa Sudan offices in Khartoum on ... -
Good Enough Report on Chad
There is a good “˜Enough’ report on Chad published this week, identifying the absence of any political process in Chad save the power calculations of Idris ... -
Kenya ‘s Accountability Debate Unfolds in a Near Policy Vacuum and Ethnic Tension
There seems to be consensus around the need to deal with injustices– gross human rights violations, economic crimes and abuse of power –perpetrated in Kenya over ... -
Darfur’s Trends of Violence: UNAMID’s June 2009 Reporting
The incident statistics collected and verified by UNAMID for June show that harassment of UNAMID and international actors continues unabated. The general pattern of violence continues ... -
Kenya: Truth, Justice, Reconciliation, and… Land Tenure Reform?
The Kenyan Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) is mandated to enquire into human rights violations, including community displacements, settlements, evictions, historical land injustices, and the ... -
Senator Kerry: Ask Useful Questions of General Gration
The Save Darfur Coalition, in one of its circular emails, has again given us an opportunity–in this case to urge U.S. senators to ask questions of ...