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Monthly Archives: October 2012

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    October 31, 2012
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    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: “Leymah Gbowee is too young to know what we’ve done to reach peace and security in our country” – By Magnus Taylor

    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, combines a matriarchal exterior with a sophisticated economist’s intelligence. First elected in to office in 2006, she has headed a ...
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  • Politics
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    October 30, 2012
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    Ghana: Security Forces and Civil Society Weigh in on Mining Sector – By Kissy Agyeman-Togobo

    Mining is probably Ghana’s most established industry.  In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the as yet un-formed country was the world’s biggest producer of gold, constituting ...
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  • Politics
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    October 29, 2012
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    Kenya and the Obamas: a half sister and an election – By Magnus Taylor

    I was in Kenya at the time of Barack Obama’s election to US President back in 2008. Actually, I was in Uganda on the night of ...
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  • Politics
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    October 29, 2012
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    Uganda: battle over national oil company reveals strains of the sector – By Angelo Izama

    When Beatrice Atim Anywar received a call from a reporter to ask if her daughter had applied for a scholarship with an oil company, she laughed: ...
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  • Politics
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    October 29, 2012
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    Rhino poaching in South Africa: organised crime and economic opportunity driving trade – By Keith Somerville

    As you enter the region of Hoedspruit in South Africa’s Limpopo province – the gateway to the world famous Kruger National Park – you see big ...
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  • Politics
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    October 25, 2012
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    Managing Risks in the Extractive Industries – By Lionel Badal

    Rising demand fuelled by emerging countries, most notoriously China and India, has led to increased competition for natural resources. Despite recurrent volatility in the markets, the ...
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  • Politics
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    October 25, 2012
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    There was a Country: Chinua Achebe makes peace with Nigeria – By Tolu Ogunlesi

    Chinua Achebe’s latest book, There was a Country, has appeared fifty-four years after the author’s first novel, Things Fall Apart, today arguably the best-known novel ever written ...
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  • Politics
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    October 24, 2012
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    Africa and the War on Drugs: Guinea-Bissau, Coups and Africa’s Cocaine Equation – By Joseph Kirschke

    This piece is part of the Africa and the War on Drugs debate – a series of articles and reviews commissioned to coincide with the launch ...
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  • Politics
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    October 23, 2012
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    Ethiopia: a tale of two development models from the valley where we began – By Richard Dowden

    Amentu, Ethiopia The Rift Valley in Eastern Africa is our hole in the ground, where we all come from. Not far from here our earliest ancestors ...
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  • Politics
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    October 23, 2012
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    Tanzania: natural gas boom masks degradation in rule of law and social stability – By Tom Savory and Subiro Mwapinga

    Things are changing in Tanzania. Large gas finds off the country’s coastline look set to shake up a country generally considered in continental economic analysis as ...
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