Yearly Archives: 2013
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The Africa Business Briefing May/June 2013: Offshore Centres, Financial Justice and Multinational Business – By Desné Masie
Q2 | May/June 2013 Desné Masie This is the third edition of our Africa Business Briefing, which is published monthly, with business and economics news on ... -
The false God of 0.7: understanding the Aid Business – By Richard Thomas
The debate about the UK aid programme has been heating up over the last few months. There is general agreement that we should respond to humanitarian ... -
The Cost of Ignoring the Kismayo Crisis – By Abdihakim Ainte
Though often caricatured as a violent failed state, over the last year Somalia has reached a state of relative calm. Despite this week’s heinous bombing of ... -
Africa’s ‘Rise’ precarious whilst investors still consider safer destinations – By Hannah Waddilove
The G8 ended their two-day meet this week with a set of fairly flimsy bullet points on the issue of corporate taxation, at least as concerns ... -
Mali: 3 new briefings from African Affairs
The crisis in Mali has received considerable media attention, but due to the turnaround in academic publishing far less scholarly analysis is available. African Affairs (our ... -
Libya: Political, logistical and security problems challenge National Oil Company’s move to Benghazi – By John Hamilton
The Libyan government’s decision to relocate the headquarters of National Oil Corporation (NOC) from Tripoli to Benghazi raises more questions than it answers. These include when ... -
Memo to the SRF: try not to kill any more Ethiopian peacekeepers
If you fight for or sympathise with the SPLM-North and the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), you might argue almost any place in South Kordofan is a ... -
AU Chair Dlamini-Zuma complains that discussions on tax “always take place at the end of the G8″ – By Magnus Taylor
Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union, congratulated G8 countries for taking issues of tax and transparency seriously, particularly with reference to African countries. However, ... -
Waiting for Elections in 2013: 11 Theses (with Appropriate Apologies) on Zimbabwe’s Moment of Magical Realism “” By David Moore
Ever since Zimbabwe’s Transitional Inclusive Government’s (TIG) constitution was finally agreed in the middle of March, the country’s political discourse had been in overdrive. Primarily it ... -
Egypt’s threats over Nile waters backfire as promise of war is not credible – By Seifulaziz Milas
Egypt’s threats towards Ethiopia and its Grand Renaissance dam project on the Blue Nile seem to be backfiring on all sides. On 3rd June, President Morsi, ...
