Yearly Archives: 2016
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Congo: Jean-Pierre Bemba has served his time. Now let him serve his people
Bemba was in jail for the 8 years during his trial at the ICC. He should be sentenced to time already served so he can return ... -
AAP#12: Africa and the Panama Papers, with Nicholas Shaxson
The Panama Papers have laid bare the extend of illicit financial flows and the impact of tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions on the world. But how ... -
Senegal: Why did President Sall pardon a rival convicted of embezzling over $200 million?
Karim Wade (aka “The Minister of Earth and Skies” and “Mr 15%”) is the influential son of the former president and could run against Macky Sall in ... -
Zimbabwe: How long can Mugabe survive without the war veterans?
The war veterans and Emmerson Mnangagwa have been key pillars underpinning Mugabe’s 36-year-long rule. Without them, it could quickly disintegrate beyond repair. Last week, Zimbabwe’s war veterans’ ... -
Mr X in the Congo: How one man fooled the UN, with disastrous consequences
When a man turned up claiming to be an ADF defector, MONUSCO thought it had achieved a major intelligence coup and acted accordingly. But Mr X ... -
DR Congo: Can anyone stop Joseph Kabila?
While the opposition tries to unite, the presidency seems to be working out various possible scenarios for staying in power. For nearly a decade, the Democratic Republic ... -
Netanyahu’s East Africa tour and Israel’s secret aid-for-asylum-seekers scheme
Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers in Israel face an impossible choice: stay and risk detention or leave “voluntarily” for Rwanda or Uganda. Earlier this month, Israel’s ... -
Decolonise da police: How brutality was written into the DNA of Kenya’s police service
The problem isn’t rogue elements. It’s that the Administration Police division was created under colonialism with the specific purpose of beating Africans into submission. “Severe blunt force trauma ... -
The erased protagonists: Afroargentines and the whitewashing of history
The received wisdom about Argentina’s African ancestry is full of spurious myths – the first being the notion that there is no such thing. When we think of Afroamerica, a ... -
Everything you need to know about São Tomé and Príncipe’s presidential elections
Voters go to the ballots this Sunday. Can the incumbent hold on to the presidency? On 17 July, the small island nation of São Tomé and ...
