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How did the DRC become the ICC’s Pandora’s Box? – By Thijs B. Bouwknegt
This Friday, Germain Katanga has the ambiguous honour of receiving the third ever judgement from the International Criminal Court (ICC). It comes a decade after Joseph ... -
Back to the Middle Ages? Response to Thabo Mbeki and Mahmood Mamdani’s op-ed: “Court’s Can’t End Civil Wars” – Anonymous
True, courts can’t end civil wars, but international criminal courts were created to make sure that certain forms of extreme violence are outlawed and that the ... -
Is Yoweri Museveni still the West’s Man in Africa? – By Angelo Izama
Heavily armed members of Uganda’s elite anti-terrorism police stand guard along the neatly manicured perimeter of the US Embassy in Kampala. Occasionally they shout commands and ... -
Gay Africa: casualty of a different power struggle – By Richard Dowden
Uganda’s war over homosexuality threatens to spread to other African countries and has further damaged the increasingly strained relationship between Africa and Western donors. For the ... -
Have Morten Jerven and Pali Lehohla made up over “˜Poor Numbers’? – By Magnus Taylor
Last year African Arguments broke a story that the economist Morten Jerven was being prevented from speaking at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) ... -
Is Morgan Tsvangirai going to be deposed as MDC leader? – By Simukai Tinhu
Following defeat in the July 2013 elections, Roy Bennett, the treasurer general of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), made a direct call for the opposition ... -
Somalia’s Parallel Armies – By Liban Ahmad
We have read recently that Somalia has a National Army, but is that really the case? Upon closer scrutiny one realises that Somalia has parallel armies ... -
The Democratic Republic of Congo
About the Author Michael Deibert is an author and journalist. Michael’s writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Miami Herald, ... -
Sexual & Social Justice In Africa
About the Author Marc Epprecht is a professor in the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University, Canada. He has consulted and published extensively on the ... -
Choosing to be a Dinka: selecting ethnicity remains an elite privilege
“Yin acÉ”l?” means “˜What is your name?’ in Dinka. They say that in Juba in December 2013 people were asked this question. If you could not ...
