Monthly Archives: January 2013
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Burundi: Aho nataye uruzogi:”Where my umbilical cord dropped off” – Land issues keep possibility of conflict alive – By Kris Berwouts
The civil war in Burundi now lies several years behind us. Since November 2003, when the CNDD-FDD integrated the transitional institutions, the rebels and the regular ... -
Kenya’s election: brave new world or highway to hell? – By Richard Dowden
Everyone is strapped in and the Kenyan election roller coaster has begun. A cacophony of electioneering propaganda is being blasted out through every medium. The political ... -
Wars do End: why conflict in Africa is falling – By Scott Straus
Recent events in Mali, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Sudan seem to confirm one of the most durable stereotypes of ... -
Crisis and Development in the Horn of Africa: two new books on a volatile region – By Magnus Taylor
Crisis in the Horn of Africa: politics, piracy and the threat of terror, Peter Woodward Peter Woodward will be known to many as a long-time historian ... -
Angola: ample reward for investors who do their homework – By Stewart Kelly
Talk to officials from the Angolan foreign investment promotion agency, ANIP, and they will express bafflement that (non-oil-sector) US and UK companies are reluctant to enter ... -
The Future of Sudan: One State or Several? – By Seifulaziz Milas
Sudan’s President, General Ahmed Al-Bashir and South Sudan’s President Silva Kiir met in Addis Ababa on 4th January for talks aimed at resolving their on-going conflict. ... -
I am a self-hating member of the Afro-Diaspora. And Proud.
Another day, another “˜Africa rising’ type e-zine pings its way into my inbox. Just as my mouse picks it up and places it in its proper ... -
Mali/Algeria: threat of AQIM to Europe has been overstated – By Christina Hellmich
Is Al-Qaeda about to bring terrorism to Europe’s backyard in North Africa? The intervention of French military forces in Mali and the apparent reprisals in the ... -
U.S. Africa Policy: A Second Term Pivot? – By J. Peter Pham
Barack Obama’s second term may witness an American pivot to Africa””and not for the reasons you might have expected. As the president of the United States ... -
Northern Nigeria: The Conflict Within – By Zainab Sandah
Ethnicity and religion are not predetermined; we are not born, do not possess an innate sense of ethnic or religious affiliation, we become Yoruba, Christian, Hausa ...
