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Peacemaker Kabbah wins elections in Sierra Leone, but needs the United Nations to keep the peace.
Four years after a minor border squabble escalated into a full-scale war, Ethiopia and Eritrea are finally told where their border is. But that does not mean they like it, Martin Stolk writes.
April 13 the International Boundary Commission will rule on where the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea is. What ever the conclusion may be, someone will be very pissed off. Already the United Nations are pressing for calm, Martin Stolk writes.
Both Ethiopia and Eritrea will celebrate their 1991 liberation from military dictatorship this week. But did those ten years bring them any further?
With no government to issue banknotes, every Somali that can afford it prints his own - with devastating effects on the economy
The sudden power vacuum on the battlefield due to the death of Congo's president Laurent Désiré Kabila has surprised both his worst enemies and his staunchest allies. For the moment, however, none of them will be able to take advantage of the situation.
The world's diamond dealers are not worried about African wars being financed with blood diamonds, but rather with the wars hurting their profits.
By the time the tanks roll into town, you would have left your house
After two years of war between Ethiopia and Eritrea the United Nations are sending in the peacekeepers.
A is for Atomium, B is for Beer, C is for Chocolate; Martin Stolk reviews the alphabet in Brussels
For over thirty years, Barbara Harrell-Bond has worked to help immigrants who never wanted to leave home in the first place
Francis Falceto documents the golden age of Ethiopian groove
Flaming protests by Djibouti diplomats and Somalia citizens that Egypt is working against the ongoing Somali national Peace Conference have somewhat quieted down. But it's still unclear what actually happened and questions remain about Egypt's role and interests
Somalia seems to be heading towards a solution for its nine-year-old civil war. The Somali National Peace Conference being held in Djibouti is the most promising ever, but fears for yet another failure remain.
The murder of Patrice Lumumba, Congo's first democratically elected president, was plotted and executed by the Belgian government, reveals Ludo de Witte in his book The Murder of Lumumba. Martin Stolk read the detailed - and often gruesome - dossier
Donor fatigue and mutual mistrust have delayed the response to the latest famine in the Horn of Africa, but we won't know for several months whether the help has come too late.
Ethiopia makes little secret that the money it saves thanks to international famine relief is spent on the war
An independent inquiry's report condemns the United Nations' inaction during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, but others must also share the blame
Read almost all of Martin's articles from his Middle East Times days. Check out these in-depth reports on conflict in the Horn of Africa.
1999
One more golden oldie from AP with my name on it