Yearly Archives: 2012
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South Africa: Parastatals and the private sector – By Jolyon Ford, Oxford Analytica
In mid-January while much of the country’s business community was still on or returning from summer holidays, Fitch Ratings revised its outlook for South Africa’s credit ... -
South Sudan’s Doomsday Machine – By Alex de Waal
The below op-ed contribution was published online by the International Herald Tribune–Global Opinion, on January 24, 2012. South Sudan was born as an independent nation on ... -
Oil: Sierra Leone calling all Takers – By Nana Ampofo, Songhai Advisory
Interest in West African oil acreage has steadily increased in recent years and governments along the Gulf of Guinea have sought to benefit. Sierra Leone is ... -
Getting Somalia Wrong: faith, war and hope in a shattered state – By Magnus Taylor
The next book in the African Arguments series is Getting Somalia Wrong by BBC journalist Mary Harper. It is a complex account of a country too ... -
Senegal: closely contested presidential polls heighten the risks of protests – By Exclusive Analysis
On 26 February, presidential elections are due in which President Abdoulaye Wade will run for a third term, if the Constitutional Court rules Wade’s candidacy is ... -
Egypt: revolution risks being captured by Islamists – By Adel Darwish
On Monday 23 January 2012, the Egyptian parliament elected the first Islamist speaker in its 188 year history. One Islamist member added his own “˜conditions’ to the traditional ... -
Ethiopia: Resettlement Debate Highlights Rights Problem – By William Davison
Human Rights Watch released its latest highly critical report on Ethiopia last week, claiming abuse and coercion in a resettlement program. While Ethiopia’s government detests the ... -
How Africa tweets: New research documents Twitter’s key role – By Beatrice Karanja
The key role of Twitter in the people’s revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia a year ago is well documented. Young people embraced the immediacy and freedom ... -
What’s Diaspora Got to do with it? It’s all about Social Capital – By Boko Inyundo
To the question in this blog’s inviting post “What’s Diaspora got to do with it?”[1] I offer one answer– “social capital“. The World Bank defines “˜social ... -
Uganda: oil and succession plans combine in Kampala – By Angelo Izama
One of the peculiarities of African governments with long-serving leaders is that whereas they are led by aging men and women, their public institutions are pubescent. ...
