Political Risk
Sudan
BMI View: The pending arrest warrant for Sudan's President al-Bashir raises the level of security risk in the country, since rebel groups will now be less likely to adhere to the...
2008-07-22Uganda
Recently released police statistics have revealed that the police are struggling with a backlog of 400,000 unresolved cases, accumulated over the past seven years. In 2000, a total...
2008-07-21Uganda
Local press reports suggest that President Yoweri Mesevni is coming under growing opposition from within the governing National Resistance Party (NRM), with a group of older members...
2008-07-01Congo, Dem. Rep.
We maintain our view that the security situation in the eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will remain highly unstable during the remainder of 2008. In particular,...
2008-07-01Uganda
In the wake of the recent collapse of the peace talks between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), we believe that the chances of a significant revival of...
2008-05-01Kenya
BMI View: Although it is encouraging that Kenya's new coalition government has been agreed upon, we harbour concerns regarding the dominance of the Party of National Unity and the...
2008-04-21Tanzania
BMI View: Political risk is on the rise in Tanzania in the wake of a rift over a power-sharing deal on the islands of Zanzibar.
2008-04-08Kenya
BMI View: Political wrangling in Kenya, with the suspension of talks over the new cabinet, signals the underlying tensions that exist within the nascent coalition government. We...
2008-04-08
