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Rwanda in Congo: Sixteen Years of Intervention – By William Macpherson
A recent UN report on the crisis in eastern DRC indicates that senior members of the Rwandan military have been supporting Congo’s newest rebel outfit, M23. ... -
Libya’s Election Forecast: More Uncertainty – By Jason Pack
Since the toppling of Mu’ammar Al-Qadhafi’s regime in October 2011, the people of Libya have been impatiently waiting for the desired results of their revolution. However, ... -
Jeffrey Sachs vs. Michael Clemens: the Millenium Villages and Evaluating Impact Assessments – By Magnus Taylor
Michael Clemens likes evaluating impact. In fact, it might be more accurate to say that he lives impact evaluation; such is the intensity of his knowledge ... -
Africa Rising: when will the West join Africa? – By Eliot Pence & Bright Simons
Discussions about Africa’s evolution tend to measure the continent’s “˜gradual’ assimilation into the global mainstream. This may have been understandable in the mid-1980s when by every ... -
Shakespeare and Africa – Richard Dowden reviews an Africanised production of Julius Caesar
When I was asked to write the programme notes for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of an African Julius Caesar at Stratford-upon-Avon, I tried to imagine ... -
Somali Presidential Elections: six ways to win power – By Abdi Aynte
After 12 years of feeble transitional governments, Somalia is slated to have a permanent administration that theoretically will be able to borrow money from the World ... -
China in Africa: Dambisa Moyo fails to uncover a more complex situation — by Jolyon Ford at Oxford Analytica.
In June 27’s New York Times, well-known African aid sceptic Dambisa Moyo attempted a corrective analysis. I will leave the reader to make their own minds ... -
Northern Mali’s silent crisis as food shortages are worsened by political stalemate – By Celeste Hicks
While all eyes are on the ongoing political stalemate in Bamako, and the growing radicalism of groups such as Ansar Dine, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ... -
Kenya: MRC pre-election rallies likely to turn violent – By Exclusive Analysis Ltd.
On 24 April 2012, a Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) protest turned violent when police (AP) riot and the paramilitary General Service Unit (GSU) used excessive force ... -
Somalia airspace and waters’ control must be reclaimed: UN may owe millions in unaccounted for air navigation charges – By Abdisalam Warsame Hassan and Awet T. Weldemichael
For nearly two decades, a small United Nations body has managed Somalia’s airspace without Somali involvement and international oversight. Sources close to that office reveal that ...
