Over the two months, the state of West African democracy has been tested on several occasions. In Senegal, after second round elections, citizens elected a new president, their once Prime Minister Macky Sall. In Mali, Coupists, led by Captain Amadou

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Tomorrow in The Hague the judges in what has been one of the lengthiest and most unusual legal battles ever to have been fought on the international stage are due to deliver the verdict on a man who over the

Read the rest of Charles Taylor: the long Wait for Justice Almost at an End – By Colin Waugh »

An 11-page resource for teachers and students is now available – React and Respond: The Phenomenon of Kony 2012 http://concernedafricascholars.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Kony-React-Respond.pdf This teachers’ packet includes an overview of the LRA situation, guides for teachers about stereotypes in the Kony 2012 video,

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Of the insurgent factions that have wrested control over northern Mali from the central government, and effectively partitioned the country, Ansar Dine (“Defenders of the Faith”) has stolen the spotlight. Led by the wily Tuareg rebel Iyad ag-Ghali, and aiming

Read the rest of Mali ‘Islamisation’ tackled: The Other Ansar Dine, Popular Islam, and Religious Tolerance – Brian J. Peterson »

In today’s Libya, local is king.  Yet, if the country is to become a functioning state governed by an elected leadership capable of empowering its citizens and providing an equitable distribution of its resource wealth, then, the interim government of

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Sudan has been described as ‘Africa in microcosm.’ Formerly a single country, political conflict between North and South spawned its ongoing civil war through the second half of the 20th century which eventually culminated in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA)

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The RAS relaunches its Africa Asia Centre programme this Spring with a new seminar series exploring different aspects of Africa-Asia relations. Our first seminar will be delivered by Zach Vertin, Senior Analyst on Sudan & South Sudan at the International

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  On the night of 12th April Guinea-Bissau ‘Military Command’ put troops on to the streets of Bissau, the country’s capital, closed the frontiers, imprisoned the Prime Minister, the acting President and others, sacked the government, dissolved parliament, and shut

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Recent news that the Republic of Somalia and newly independent South Sudan have applied to join the East African Community (EAC) has elicited uncharacteristically heated debate on the hitherto rather sedate and lacklustre dialogue on the region’s economic and political

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About us In the storm that has erupted over Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 campaign, one conclusion that people on all sides of the controversy tend to agree upon is the deep, even desperate, need for more information about the conflict

Read the rest of Making Sense of Kony: Critical information on the conflict in Northern Uganda »