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AFRICAN DEBT: Funny Money and Stolen Lives – By James K. Boyce and Léonce Ndikumana
James K. Boyce and Léonce Ndikumana are the authors of Africa’s Odious Debts: How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent, forthcoming in October in ... -
Somalia: If you have to starve to death, better to do it in a war-torn country – By Jean-Hervé Bradol
For the past several months, news about food shortages and famines affecting large segments of the East African population have been fuelling donation appeals from major ... -
Zambia: Cobra becomes King in a telling result – By Jack Hogan
The Result Shortly after 12 am local time on the 23rd of September 2011, the Electoral Commission of Zambia announced the results of this year’s tri-partite ... -
Somalia: Ken Menkhaus calls for “˜a diplomatic surge to stop famine.’
Ken Menkhaus – a noted academic and advisor on US policy towards Somalia – has called for the international community to invoke the Responsibility to Protect ... -
South Sudan: A letter from Warrap State – Riak Machar’s Apology For Peace – By Naomi Pendle
At this time of year, tall, green grasses conceal the shallow swamp that stretches out on the far west side of the village of Pinydit leading ... -
Libya: Sub Saharan mercenaries or African freedom fighters and the return of Dr Khalil Ibrahim – By Pieter Tesch
It may be safer when discussing the impact and consequences of the “˜Arab spring’ in northern Africa to quote Mao Zhe Dong when asked to comment ... -
Liberia’s Racialist Constitution Needs Reform – By Michael Keating
Liberia’s recently concluded referendum in which all of the government’s propositions were defeated should be the impetus for a serious look at an overall revising of ... -
Being Julius Malema: understanding Juju – By Desné Masie
Julius Malema, the influential leader of South African ruling party ANC’s youth league, has been the poster boy for white South Africa’s worst fears about the ... -
The Commonwealth: Reiterating imperial roots – By Richard Dowden
I gather that the Royal Commonwealth Society and the Commonwealth Foundation are to be merged next year and presented as a Jubilee gift to the Queen ... -
Congo’s rape crisis: Reflections on the new Red Rubber wars – By Georgina Holmes
Guardian journalist Diane Taylor recently filed a report from Mwenga in South Kivu depicting the plight of Congolese women rape victims who are forced to work ...