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Africa’s aging leaders must give way to a new generation or face disaster – By Richard Dowden
Telling Africans and their leaders what to do – or not do – is not in my nature. Outsiders do not have a good record in ... -
Malawi: Peter Mutharika must win back donor support by showing he is more than just Bingu’s brother – By Frank Jomo
Three weeks into his first term in office, Malawi’s new leader Peter Mutharika finally named the 20-member cabinet he promised Malawians on the campaign trail. Mutharika ... -
Somalia: Heading from Fragility to Fragmentation? – By Dr Dominik Balthasar
Somalia has achieved important progress since the onset of the year of 2014. Most prominent among the positive developments is the push-back of al-Shabaab, realised by ... -
Sudan: is the National Dialogue really dead? (And did it ever really exist anyway?) – By James Copnall
“˜The National Dialogue is dead’. The verdict comes from Ghazi Salaheddin Atabani, one of the longest-serving Islamist intellectuals of the Bashir era, who defected to the ... -
Uganda: US sanctions will hurt NGOs already operating in difficult environment – By Angelo Izama
Since last year when European and American donors started moving their money around, first due to the daylight robbery of these funds by civil servants (including ... -
DRC Elections: Will Kabila stay or go? And many other questions on the road to 2016 – By Manya Riche and Kris Berwouts
The elections of July and October 2006 marked the end of a particularly dramatic decade in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This included two wars ... -
Waiting for the Blue Helmets: More gloom from CAR as crisis passes 18 months – By Magnus Taylor
The crisis in the CAR has metamorphosed from a lightening storm of rebellions, coups and emergency military deployment into a low rumbling groan of desperation from ... -
Tsvangirai vs Biti: battle for control of the MDC – By Simukai Tinhu
The ambush two months ago by the Secretary General of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Tendai Biti, against the party’s strongman, Morgan Tsvangirai, has set ... -
Kenya’s Somalis: Caught Between Power and Profiling – By Hassan M. Abukar
The ongoing Kenyan government security sweep against Somalis has generated reactions both serious and comical. In May, the visiting Chinese Prime Minister, Le Keqiang, vowed to ... -
Africa comes to parliament with debate in The Commons – By Magnus Taylor
I attended yesterday’s parliamentary debate on “˜The UK’s relationship with Africa’, along with a handful of others – MPs researchers, school children and tourists – in ...
