Monthly Archives: March 2012
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African Arguments Editorial: Mali’s coup makes Tuareg rebellion harder to resolve – By William Townsend
For the past decade, Mali has been incrementally portrayed as the poster-child of good democratic transition in West Africa and its president, Amadou Toumani Touré, respected ... -
Breaking News: Mali Coup Likely to Hike Mining Taxes and Raise Terrorism Risks – By Exclusive Analysis
Head of Africa Forecasting at Exclusive Analysis, Natznet Tesfay, believes that the coup in Mali is likely to delay elections by 6-12 months, hike mining taxes ... -
Diary – Inside the Shadow World: Feinstein and Alderman debate the global arms trade in Africa – By Magnus Taylor
The publication last year of Andrew Feinstein’s The Shadow World: inside the global arms trade provided the RAS with a neat opportunity to invite the author ... -
The Lubanga verdict: a fight against impunity’s milestone? – By Koen Vlassenroot
It took the International Criminal Court (ICC) about six years to come to a conclusion in the case against Thomas Lubanga, a Congolese militia leader who ... -
Guinea: The Mining Sector and Its Discontents – Risk or Reward? – Kissy Agyeman-Togobo at Songhai Advisory
The arrival in town last week of a delegation of investors who met with Guinean president Alpha Conde is an indication that there is still appetite ... -
Malawi’s democracy dips into recession – By Keith Somerville
Between independence in 1964 and the referendum to end the one party state in 1993, Malawi was almost a stereotype of an African autocracy with a ... -
How Kony survives and Obasanjo’s one man peace mission – By Richard Dowden
Invisible Children’s StopKony video that has recently created a sudden storm on the web shows what might be done have been done at any time in ... -
Association of Concerned Africa Scholars addresses risks of KONY2012 campaign and military solutions
The Board and Executive of the national Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (ACAS) today called on the U.S. government to give more attention to supporting the ... -
Resource Nationalism in Africa: what it means for governments, companies and communities – By Jolyon Ford at Oxford Analytica.
Today is The Times’ much-anticipated CEO Summit Africa with one of the more intriguing panels focusing on resource nationalism: opportunity or threat? Both the Indonesian government’s ... -
Understanding the al-Shabaab/al-Qaeda “˜merger’ – By Abdi Aynte
Last month, the radical Islamist group al-Shabaab, which controls vast swathes of territory in south and central Somalia, declared it was joining the al-Qaeda Network. The ...
