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The Lubanga verdict: a fight against impunity’s milestone? – By Koen Vlassenroot
It took the International Criminal Court (ICC) about six years to come to a conclusion in the case against Thomas Lubanga, a Congolese militia leader who ... -
Guinea: The Mining Sector and Its Discontents – Risk or Reward? – Kissy Agyeman-Togobo at Songhai Advisory
The arrival in town last week of a delegation of investors who met with Guinean president Alpha Conde is an indication that there is still appetite ... -
Malawi’s democracy dips into recession – By Keith Somerville
Between independence in 1964 and the referendum to end the one party state in 1993, Malawi was almost a stereotype of an African autocracy with a ... -
How Kony survives and Obasanjo’s one man peace mission – By Richard Dowden
Invisible Children’s StopKony video that has recently created a sudden storm on the web shows what might be done have been done at any time in ... -
Association of Concerned Africa Scholars addresses risks of KONY2012 campaign and military solutions
The Board and Executive of the national Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (ACAS) today called on the U.S. government to give more attention to supporting the ... -
Resource Nationalism in Africa: what it means for governments, companies and communities – By Jolyon Ford at Oxford Analytica.
Today is The Times’ much-anticipated CEO Summit Africa with one of the more intriguing panels focusing on resource nationalism: opportunity or threat? Both the Indonesian government’s ... -
Understanding the al-Shabaab/al-Qaeda “˜merger’ – By Abdi Aynte
Last month, the radical Islamist group al-Shabaab, which controls vast swathes of territory in south and central Somalia, declared it was joining the al-Qaeda Network. The ... -
Democratic change in West Africa – Senegal and Guinea Bissau go to the polls – By Peter Howes, analyst at Risk Resolution Group
In the next week, two very different elections will take place in two neighbouring but divergent West African states. Both Senegal’s presidential run-off and the Guinea ... -
StopKony fine, but North Uganda post-conflict reconstruction is the real story – By Marjoke Oosterom
The “˜Kony2012‘ documentary film was put online on March 5 by the US-based organisation Invisible Children. Within days, the film helped raise $5 million for the ... -
Somaliland did not surrender sovereignty by attending the London Conference – By Mohamed A Omar, Foreign Minister, Somaliland
Somaliland is re-engaging with international diplomacy related to its neighbour, Somalia. Our country has received widespread praise for its contribution to the recent London Conference. This ...
