Monthly Archives: February 2012
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Senegal’s day of reckoning: it’s the economy stupid! – By Sanou Mbaye
The Senegalese people are extremely disillusioned. In 2000, they enthusiastically went to the polls to elect Abdoulaye Wade as their president. Wade had campaigned as an ... -
Saving Somalia? – upcoming “˜London Conference’ triggers reflections on the last 20 years – By Richard Dowden
If I were a Somali I would thank Allah for the pirates. For more than 20 years the world has stood by while successive civil wars ... -
Getting Somalia Wrong: a history of international misreading – By Abdi Aynte
Writing a book about Somalia has become a cotton industry of late. Countless pundits with little or no experience of the country try to reduce its ... -
Pipe-dreaming over oil in South Sudan – By Luke Patey
Across South Sudan demonstrations have been held in support of President Salva Kiir’s decision to shutdown its 350,000-barrel daily oil production. This came after Sudan’s confiscation ... -
The contest over peace and security in Africa – By Alex de Waal
The dominant interventionist approach to peace and security in Africa by-passes the hard work of creating domestic political consensus and instead imposes models of government favoured ... -
Fighting poverty in South Africa: the NDP, ANC and a political Big Beast – By Desné Masie
Over the years, the South African government has released a plethora of strategies and initiatives in its post-apartheid policy reforms. Many of these recommendations and programmes ... -
RAS/African Arguments Conference: DR Congo: Beyond the 2011 elections
DR Congo: Beyond the 2011 elections Date/Time: February 14th – Panel 1: 16:00 – 17:30 -Panel 2: 18:00 – 19:30 Venue: School of Oriental and African ... -
Sub-Saharan Oil and Gas 2012: a Business Africa guide – By Rolake Akinkugbe, Ecobank Capital
If 2011 was a record year for elections in Africa, it was also the year frontier exploration for oil and gas came of age. Global crude ... -
Getting Somalia Wrong? – Signs of hope in a shattered state – a realistic but empathetic analysis – review by Keith Somerville
It’s always been hard to find a framework for analyzing Somalia. It has one of the most ethnically homogenous populations in Africa – Somalis share the ...
