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October 27, 2010
Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke in Jerusalem at Future of the Jewish People conference and promised no troop withdrawal after a peace deal.
April 26, 2010
On 13 April 2010, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Order 1650 (Order regarding Prevention of Infiltration) went into effect. Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups have predicted mass deportation of Palestinians. The Israeli government´s public relations machine has gone into high gear spinning the order as a beneficial human rights move and they claim only 30 to 60 Palestinians a year may be subject to the order.
April 17, 2010
This article gives the reason while Arab Israeli negotiations are stalled and will remain stalled regardless of how much pressure the United States applies.
March 19, 2008
According to many sources, both inside and outside the government, the Global War on Terror (GWOT) has a predicted life-time cost of between 350 and 700 billion in terms of providing disability compensation and direct medical costs for the Gulf War veterans. The terms of its current costs, Lin...
September 13, 2007
By James Karuhanga
Senior Researcher-East Africa
GLCSS
Illegally armed and violent Karimojong Ngiwakujo (warriors) are blamed for the insecurity in Uganda’s north eastern region. This explains the government’s insistence on forceful disarmament which started in May 2006 after voluntary disarmam...
May 18, 2007
North Kivu poised for war Brig. General Vainqueur Mayala, commander of the Ituri military region, has been assigned the post of military commander of the 8th Military Region (North Kivu). This change signals a movement in the Kinshasa government that could either bring North Kivu to rebellion...
May 07, 2007
James KaruhangaSenior ResearcherGreat Lakes Centre for Strategic StudiesConflict Early Alert Report (CEAR)
Violent public rallies and demonstrations have recently rocked Kampala indicating that Uganda is on the verge of a major political crisis. The most recent riots were sparked by President Mus...
March 22, 2007
By CEAR Staff
Great Lakes Centre for Strategic Studies
Regional Risk Overview
The Great Lakes Region continues its slow but steady progress in all areas of the Pact on Peace, Security, Stability and Development in the Great Lakes Region (PSSDGLR). During the last four reporting periods Vol. 1...
January 31, 2007
Rwanda: Hate Speech and Paul Rusesabagina
By William Church
This article is a continuation of a discussion that started with the article “Rusesabagina, Genocide and Identity Politics”, published on the 15th of January 2007. The core issues of that article centred on comments by Paul Rusesaba...
January 31, 2007
By Emmanuel Fanta
Regional Coordinator Great Lakes Conflict Early Alert Report
Just one moth after the Ethiopian government officially recognised it had sent troops into Somalia, the first contingent of Ethiopian troops have started pulling out of Mogadishu. Although African Union (AU) troops ...
January 16, 2007
It has been about a year since I first sat in the living room of Paul Rusesabagina’s house outside of Brussels. Prior to that meeting, I had interviewed Terry George, the director of Hotel Rwanda, Linda Melvern, the well-known genocide researcher, Rwandans who had been at Hotel Milles des Collines, ...
November 27, 2006
By Linda Melvern
Author of Conspiracy to Murder
We may never know who was responsible for shooting down the Mystère Falcon jet under cover of darkness in the skies over Kigali at 8. 25 pm on 6 April 1994. Two African presidents, Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and the president of Burundi, Cyprien...
November 13, 2006
By James Karuhanga
Senior Researcher, GLCSS
According to the 2006 World Investment Report (WIR), Uganda leads its East African partners in attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). In 2005, Uganda’s FDI rose by 16 percent up from 14.7 percent in 2004.
According to the Uganda Investment Aut...
November 13, 2006
By Fidel Munyeshyaka
Rwanda Researcher, GLCSS
This week the Rwandan Government released its 2007 budget draft that shows an increase of 82.2 billion Rwanda Francs (Frws) for education and 60 billion Frws for infrastructure development. Finance Minister James Musoni stressed that the 96 billion ...
November 13, 2006
By Staff
GLCSS
Recently, Transparency International (TI) ranked the DRC among the most corrupt states in the word. The level of corruption in the DRC is evident in all aspects of governance to include the mining, aviation, and security sectors and is a significant factor determining the future of ...
November 13, 2006
By Marco Jowell
Research Director, GLCSS
The FOCAC Beijing Conference concluded this week. Some 48 African heads of state assembled for the largest Sino-African conference to date, marking 50 years of diplomatic relations.
The Forum proposed a framework for future relations through dialogue ...
November 06, 2006
The Great Lakes Centre for Strategic Studies (GLCSS) believes a clear Post Cold War conflict cycle has emerged in Central Africa and the Horn of Africa. It is also the misreading of this cycle that has led to a lack of or misdirected arms embargo enforcement in Africa.
As the GLCSS Africa Weapons...
November 06, 2006
According to a recent study, France is Africa’s leading weapons supplier. This dubious milestone and increased French military presence in Africa signals a reversal of the 1998 French strategy that led to French troop reductions and less interference in Africa.
Conventional Arms Transfers to Deve...
October 23, 2006
DirectorGreat Lakes Centre for Strategic Studies
Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda may suffer significant collateral damage from the United States War on Terrorism in the Horn of Africa. The Somalia conflict and the US War on Terrorism have increased the flow of weapons into Kenya and Uganda, spawned a...
October 16, 2006
By William Church
Director, Great Lakes Centre for Strategic Studies
The United States has dramatically increased its involvement and arms sales to the Horn of Africa and East Africa in the last three years. In addition, the United States will soon consolidate it focus on Sub-Sahara Africa by un...
October 15, 2006
By William Church
Director, GLCSS
Recently, the Washington Post published an editorial, US Should Act Without UN in Darfur, by two former US officials and a current US Congressman. The former high-ranking officials-one of them served as National Security Advisor during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide—...
October 09, 2006
By Fidel Munyeshyaka
Researcher, GLCSS
Last week Chinese businessmen from the Shenzhen Chamber of International and Investment and Finance (SZAEFI) were in Rwanda to assess potential investment opportunities in the country.
The SZAEFI and officials of the Rwanda Investment and Export Promoti...
October 09, 2006
By William Church
Director, GLCSS
Last November the Great Lakes Centre for Strategic Studies (GLCSS) described a worst case scenario in both its weekly newsletter and in the press. This scenario had two pillars: first, it forecasted that armed group like the FDLR, and ex-General Laurent Nkunda w...
October 08, 2006
By William Church
Director, GLCSS
The countries of the Central Africa are attempting to recover from one of the Africa’s bloodiest wars; however, false or misleading media reports continue to fan the flames of ethnic or national hatred. The most recent disturbance in the diplomatic community i...