Yearly Archives: 2014
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Ethiopia’s historic self-confidence writ large in the monastery at Debre Damo – By Richard Dowden
No wonder the monastery at Debre Damo has survived unmolested for some 900 years among the vast Tigrayan Mountains of Northern Ethiopia. Getting to it is ... -
Rwanda Twenty Years On: The Dangers of Demography – By Mark Weston
April 2014 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, three months of violence which saw the massacre of over 800,000 members of the Tutsi ethnic ... -
The Great African Land Grab
About the Author Lorenzo Cotula is a senior researcher and team leader at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), where he works on land and ... -
Sudan’s Spreading Conflict – roundtable with International Crisis Group
A roundtable discussion with Jérí´me Tubiana, Senior Analyst, International Crisis Group & Claudio Gramizzi, Small Arms Survey Wednesday, 26 February 2014, 1PM In a series of reports “Sudan’s ... -
South Sudan’s Uncertain Future: first end Ugandan military support for Kiir – By Atieno Oduor
As the IGAD led mediation talks resume in Addis Ababa, South Sudan’s political future looks uncertain. Despite the signing of a ceasefire, fighting continues in three ... -
Africa and the War on Drugs
About the Authors Neil Carrier is a researcher based at the African Studies Centre, Oxford. He has published widely on the substance khat, which he first studied ... -
Getting Somalia Wrong
About the Author Mary Harper is a BBC journalist specializing in Africa. She has reported from Somalia since the outbreak of civil war in 1991 and from ... -
Africa’s Odious Debts
About the Author James K. Boyce is professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he directs the program on development, peacebuilding and the environment ... -
In defence of western journalists in Africa – By Michela Wrong
A few years ago, baffled by unfolding events in Darfur, I went to listen to an academic speak at London’s Frontline Club. A recognised expert on ... -
Chocolate Nations
About the Author Orla Ryan works for the Financial Times in London. She lived in Africa for more than four years, first in Uganda, and then in ...
