Yearly Archives: 2015
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The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis – reviewed by Desné Masie
Tom Burgis’ The Looting Machine is a rollercoaster read. Filled with vignettes on spooks, smugglers and kleptocratic warlords with suitcases of cash, it reads like a ... -
Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria’s Unholy War – By Mike Smith. Reviewed by Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar
“I’m not scared because I think the worst has happened,” says a 14-year-old girl who defied Boko Haram’s burning of her school by continuing to take ... -
What Chance for a Power Sharing Peace in South Sudan? – By Tongun Lo Loyuong
The collapse of the IGAD-led power sharing negotiations on South Sudan revealed the inherent flaw with the process and justified various critiques that many have previously ... -
Somalia: reject ‘indirect elections’, Somalis should settle only for the real thing – By Mohamed
About a month ago, an opinion piece advocating for “indirect elections” in Somalia in 2016 was posted on these boards. The argument is that the government ... -
Magnificent & Beggar Land: Angola Since the Civil War – By Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
Reviewed by Lara Pawson – Reading this book, I began to wonder if its author is, in fact, the real-life incarnation of HG Well’s Griffin. If ... -
Peacekeepers in Congo: Changing the Mandate – By Timo Muller
Members of the United Nations Security Council will convene this Thursday in New York to discuss the performance of MONUSCO – the peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic ... -
Zimbabwe: The darkest hour is not before dawn – By Joost Fontein
Throughout the 2000s, Zimbabwe’s decade of misery, I was often struck by a cliché that frequently appeared in editorials, commentaries, and letters published in the Zimbabwean ... -
Burundi elections: Nkurunziza unpopular but could hang on in May polls – By Benjamin Chemouni
Over the last few years the narrowing of the political space in Burundi has been regularly denounced. With elections now less than three months away, what ... -
Vital Kamerhe and Congo’s political opposition visits Washington – By Hank Cohen
A delegation of the leading opposition political leaders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo visited Washington, DC during the period March 7-11, 2015. The delegation ...
