Monthly Archives: June 2012
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Northern Mali’s silent crisis as food shortages are worsened by political stalemate – By Celeste Hicks
While all eyes are on the ongoing political stalemate in Bamako, and the growing radicalism of groups such as Ansar Dine, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ... -
Kenya: MRC pre-election rallies likely to turn violent – By Exclusive Analysis Ltd.
On 24 April 2012, a Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) protest turned violent when police (AP) riot and the paramilitary General Service Unit (GSU) used excessive force ... -
Somalia airspace and waters’ control must be reclaimed: UN may owe millions in unaccounted for air navigation charges – By Abdisalam Warsame Hassan and Awet T. Weldemichael
For nearly two decades, a small United Nations body has managed Somalia’s airspace without Somali involvement and international oversight. Sources close to that office reveal that ... -
Kenya: Saitoti’s death and the coming battle – By Richard Dowden
The death of George Saitoti in a helicopter crash on June 10th removes one of the most important players in Kenya’s piranha pool politics. Saitoti served ... -
Africa and the Financial Crisis: insulated no longer – By Desné Masie
The 2008 Financial crisis and the attendant Eurozone crisis are reshaping the future of global finance. But what are the implications of this for Africans? Why ... -
“˜Zimbabwe and the Region’ – The Britain Zimbabwe Society’s Annual Research Day 2012
The Britain Zimbabwe Society’s annual research day will be held on the 16th June at St. Antony’s College, Oxford (corner of Woodstock/Bevington Road, North Oxford, ... -
Somalia needs nation building’s sterile and corrupt mould to be broken – By Ahmed M.I. Egal
The impending expiry of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) has occasioned an unseemly rush to establish a “˜permanent’, and therefore “˜legitimate’, administration in the country. This ... -
DIARY: Malawi: Joyce Banda wills the IMF for a loan – By Magnus Taylor
Joyce Banda became President of Malawi by accident. Bingu wa Mutharika, her predecessor, died suddenly of a heart attack in April, an event which prompted 48 ... -
Crisis in Eastern DRC: ethnic massacres take back seat to speculation on Rwandan role – By Jessica Hatcher
The 2012 crisis in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo became headline news in April as Bosco Ntaganda, an International Criminal Court indictee, ... -
Libya: Uncertainty around Elections and Federalism – By Jason Pack and Ronald Bruce St John
It is now all but official, Libya’s elections will be delayed. But by how long nobody knows. The Libyan Election Commission has repeatedly leaked news about ...
