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- Sub-Saharan Oil and Gas 2012: a Business Africa guide – By Rolake Akinkugbe, Ecobank Capital
- 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
- Egypt: revolution risks being captured by Islamists – By Adel Darwish
- Resettlement Debate Highlights Ethiopia’s Rights Problem – By William Davison
- New research reveals how Africa tweets – By Beatrice Karanja
- 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
- Defining the diaspora’s role and potential with Africa (a response to ‘What’s diaspora got to do with it?’) – By Semhar Araia
- 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
- What’s Diaspora got to do with it? – By Dele Fatunla
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- Alexander Eichener on Kenya: ICC shakes up politics, but Ruto and Kenyatta may still run for President – By Ken Opalo
- Monte McMurchy on Getting Somalia Wrong: faith, war and hope in a shattered state – By Magnus Taylor
- 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
- Theodore Hodge on Illegal and Invisible: Sexuality, Identity and LGBT Rights in Liberia – By Stephanie C. Horton
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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
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- Adde Asli Oromo with Hegeree Media: Part One on Resettlement Debate Highlights Ethiopia’s Rights Problem – By William Davison
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- Sudan on South Sudan: newborn state in a nasty zone – By Richard Dowden
- AHMED on Somalis in Kenya: ‘they call us ATM machines.’
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Burundi
March 26, 2009
Posted by Tracy Kidder
Review of Life After Violence: A people’s story of Burundi, by Peter Uvin. Zed Books, London, 2008. I have a young friend who comes from the African nation of Burundi. Not very long ago an immigration agent at Kennedy Airport
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