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Do journalists use double standards when reporting vulnerable subjects far from “˜home’? – By Matthew Le Riche
A photograph of two South Sudanese children, with names listed directly below, sits adjacent the headline “South Sudan’s Boy Soldiers Swap Schoolbooks for Kalashnikovs”. This recent ... -
PROFILE: Salva Kiir – South Sudan’s Commander-in-chief – image vs reality
Ten years before the start of South Sudan’s current war, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) held a meeting at Rumbek in which the party leadership ... -
Ebola, Economics and Equality in Africa – By Raymond Gilpin
The speed with which the current Ebola epidemic swept across parts of West Africa, claiming over 4,000 lives in the first six months and affecting millions ... -
Mozambique Election Preview: end of the Guebuza era? – By Cate Reid
As Mozambique prepares to go to the polls on Wednesday 15 October, there are signs that the country could be at a political turning point. Few ... -
How the death penalty is slowly weakening its grip on Africa – By Thomas Probert
At both global and continental levels there is an observable trend towards the abolition of the death penalty. More than two thirds of all states have ... -
Congo: Kabila reshuffles his military pack – By Alex Ntung
The recent and unprecedented reshuffle of the leadership of the military (FARDC) in the DRC is the most important reorganisation of the institution’s command chains ever ... -
Lin Muyizere and the unbearable lightness of Dutch nationality – By Kris Berwouts
Lin Muyizere is a Dutchman. At least for the time being. On September 27th 2014 he received a letter from the State Secretary for Security and ... -
From Somaliland to Afghanistan: Why States Recover – By Greg Mills
The Somaliland city of Burao, high above the sweaty coastal plain that centres on the port of Berbera, was the site of a remarkable conference nearly ... -
Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa lines himself up for post-Mugabe leadership strike – By Tawanda Makwanye
On the 9th December, delegates to the ZANU-PF’s elective congress will start to arrive in Harare. The congress, as usual, will be a tightly scripted event, ... -
Upper Nile diary: atrocities, federalism and the Shilluk – By James Copnall
Even in a war of rapidly fluctuating military fortunes, Malakal stands out: the capital of Upper Nile state changed hands six times between December and March. ...
