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- Getting Somalia Wrong? – Signs of hope in a shattered state – a realistic but empathetic analysis – review by Keith Somerville
- Illegal and Invisible: Sexuality, Identity and LGBT Rights in Liberia – By Stephanie C. Horton
- Parastatals and the private sector: policy and partnerships in South Africa – By Jolyon Ford, Oxford Analytica
- South Sudan’s Doomsday Machine – By Alex de Waal
- Oil: Sierra Leone calling all Takers – By Nana Ampofo, Songhai Advisory
- Getting Somalia Wrong: faith, war and hope in a shattered state – By Magnus Taylor
- Senegal: Closely contested presidential polls will heighten risks of protests, and contract risks if the opposition wins – By Exclusive Analysis
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- What’s Diaspora Got to do with it? It’s all about Social Capital – By Boko Inyundo
- Uganda: oil and succession plans combine in Kampala – By Angelo Izama
- Kenya: ICC shakes up politics, but Ruto and Kenyatta may still run for President – By Ken Opalo
- Kenyatta, Ruto, Sang and Muthaura to face trial at ICC for crimes against humanity – By Keith Somerville
- Goodluck Jonathan’s perfect storm – By Richard Dowden
- Zimbabwe and the Politics of Impunity — by Alex Lichtenstein
- Charles Taylor a CIA Informant — The Need to Retool Liberia’s Relationship with the US – By Robtel Neajai Pailey
- Boko Haram: The answer to terror lies in providing more meaningful human security – By Olly Owen
- “They Bombed Everything that Moved” Aerial military attacks on civilians and humanitarians in Sudan, 1999 – 2012 – By Eric Reeves
- Intervening in Somalia: risky business with no end in sight – By Marco Jowell
- Nigeria: country tense as Jonathan accedes to some of fuel protestors’ demands – By Ejiro Barrett
- In the 2 Sudans: where separation breeds conflict – By Charlie Warren
- Guy Scott and the ‘Caribbeanization’ of Zambia – Consequences for Zimbabwe? — by Brooks Marmon
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- DFID’s aid priorities and Africa – a new report by the Africa All Party Parliamentary Group
- Ghana: women still sidelined politically as 2012 election approaches – By Clair MacDougall
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- Sub-Saharan Oil And Gas 2012: A Business Africa Guide | Lion Economies on Sub-Saharan Oil and Gas 2012: a Business Africa guide – By Rolake Akinkugbe, Ecobank Capital
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- Julius Weeks on Illegal and Invisible: Sexuality, Identity and LGBT Rights in Liberia – By Stephanie C. Horton
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- Collins Odhiambo on Kenya: ICC shakes up politics, but Ruto and Kenyatta may still run for President – By Ken Opalo
- NIGERIA’S TWO WEEKS OF REVOLT | FavStocks on Boko Haram: The answer to terror lies in providing more meaningful human security – By Olly Owen
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- Adde Asli Oromo with Hegeree Media: Part One on Resettlement Debate Highlights Ethiopia’s Rights Problem – By William Davison
- Nigeria: Was it a 14-day dream? « radical africa on Boko Haram: The answer to terror lies in providing more meaningful human security – By Olly Owen
- sean on Charles Taylor a CIA Informant — The Need to Retool Liberia’s Relationship with the US – By Robtel Neajai Pailey
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- AHMED on Somalis in Kenya: ‘they call us ATM machines.’
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Yearly Archives: 2009
December 28, 2009
Only a Free and Fair Referendum, Not Coercion, can Guarantee a Genuinely United Sudan
Posted by Yong Deng
The right of people of South Sudan to decide their political future through an internationally monitored referendum, which many Southerners consider to be the cornerstone of the CPA, is now under severe threat. The National Congress Party views the right
December 27, 2009
Why Would the Proponents of a New Sudan Promote Electoral Apartheid?
Posted by Ghazi Salahuddin Atabani
The Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM) yet again delivered on its thousand and one vows to boycott sessions of the National Legislature last week. The reason this time was parliamentary debate over the Southern Sudan Referendum Bill, which specifies legislation
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December 23, 2009
Why the U.S. is Losing Influence
Posted by Alex de Waal
Why does the U.S. have so little influence over political outcomes in Sudan? Earlier this month, I made a presentation at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York in which I argued that the U.S. Administration can only influence
December 22, 2009
The AUPD and the UNSC
Posted by admin
Documents from the UN Security Council discussion of the AU High Level Panel on Darfur are available here: The speech of President Thabo Mbeki: Speech of Pres Mbeki The speech of Chairperson Jean Ping: H.E. Jean Ping statement The press
December 19, 2009
Sudan’s Census and the National Assembly Elections
Posted by Marc Gustafson
When Sudan’s fifth population census was recently completed, many Sudanese citizens rejected the results, arguing that the population of Southern Sudan was significantly higher than the census showed. One of the worries is that southern states will be given fewer
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December 17, 2009
Counter-terrorism in Somalia, or: how external interferences helped to produce militant Islamism
Posted by websolve
Article by: Markus Virgil Hoehne, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Note: For more detailed analysis, download the full version of this essay on the Crisis in the Horn of Africa essay forum. Somalia has made international headlines for almost
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December 16, 2009
Arms in Sudan
Posted by admin
A new publication by the Small Arms Survey, “Supply and Demand: Arms flows and holdings in Sudan,” provides the most up-to-date assessments of the military capacities of Sudan’s contending parties. The briefing documents the ongoing supplies of weaponry to the
December 14, 2009
Who are the Sudanese?
Posted by Alex de Waal
Sudanese cannot agree on their common identity, but up to now they have not disagreed on who counts as a Sudanese. The first disagreement may yet divide the country. But partition should not be a reason to tear up the
December 14, 2009
Citizenship and land: a potent relationship
Posted by Dr. Lucy Hovil
Recent research in Burundi on the repatriation of refugees has highlighted the strong link between land and citizenship. The research tracked the experience of refugees returning to southern Burundi and (re)claiming their citizenship. Most had been living in exile in Tanzania – some since the early 1990s, and others since 1972. Some were born in exile and had never been to Burundi before. Others left when they were children. But all of them had a strong notion that returning to Burundi signified an end to exile and an opportunity to finally become citizens of their homeland. And the measure of that renewed bond between citizen and state was their ability to recover land. Continue reading
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December 14, 2009
“The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis”
Posted by Guy Gabriel
The media profile of Darfur shot up enormously once the label ‘the world’s worst humanitarian crisis’ was applied, although technically the phrase used was the “world’s greatest humanitarian and human rights catastrophe.” This is commonly standardised to ‘world’s worst…’ In
