Africans dictators anxious over new US leadership

Africa has received the new United States administration with a mixture of hope and anxiety especially the myriad troublespots all over the continent. In East Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes such areas as Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Darfur and the indictment facing Sudanese President, Omar al-Bashir, northern Uganda and the tension between Ethiopia and Eritrea over the disputed border of Badme all cry out for intervention.
Closer to Obama’s heart is Kenya, his father’s birthplace and a key US ally and strategic partner in the war against terror. The country is not out of the woods yet after last year’s post-election violence. Indeed, the power-sharing deal that was crafted under pressure from US and other Western powers remains shaky. Obama and the new Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, have so far shown they prefer diplomacy to the “shoot from the hip” approach of the George W. Bush administration. more..http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/519024/-/rle302z/-/index.html