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Somalia/money transfer: Barclays Decision Threatens Efforts to Build Lasting Peace and Security – By Laura Hammond
A recent decision by Barclays Bank to close the accounts of 250 money transfer organisations working around the world will have a particularly severe effect on ... -
Checking the Africa facts – By Magnus Taylor
What’s the most important question in a journalist’s armoury? Answer: is it true? Peter Cunliffe-Jones, Director of the newly launched Africa Check, tells me that not ... -
Why Tunisia is not Egypt – By Mourad Teyeb
Following recent events in Egypt, in Tunisia there have been some calls, mostly from minor opposition groups and individuals, to rebel against the country’s governing Troika. ... -
REVIEW: Britain and Africa Under Blair: in pursuit of the good state – Reviewed by Chris Mullin
Britain and Africa Under Blair by Julia Gallagher, Manchester University Press, pp 162. Tony Blair famously remarked that the state of Africa was “a scar on ... -
“Haze of silence over Rwandan involvement in DRC” – highlights of the Mid-Term Report of the UN Group of Experts – By Kris Berwouts
Bosco’s exit The Mid-Term Report of the sometimes controversial UN Group of Experts focuses on the major events of the conflict in eastern Congo since the ... -
Private equity: Bringing development capital to Africa? – By Adam Green
Africa’s private equity industry has been gaining ground. Last year, despite difficult global economic circumstances, deal value reached $1.1bn with East Africa taking the lion’s share. ... -
Inga III: the giant is awakening – By Franí§ois Misser
Within slightly more than two years, construction work for a third dam and hydropower station should start at the Inga falls on the Congo river in ... -
Kenya’s Misbehavior in Kismayo and Consequences of Disrespecting the AMISOM Mandate – By Jibril Mohamed
Currently Kenya has about 4,000 soldiers deployed as part of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), a peacekeeping force mandated by the United Nations Security ... -
Somalia: The Godane Coup and the Unraveling of Al-Shabaab – By Hassan M. Abukar
The week of June 19th was a bloody milestone for the course of jihad in Somalia as the leaders of Al-Shabaab clashed in Barawe, a coastal ... -
African Energy Atlas 2013: oil, gas and renewables to the fore – By Magnus Taylor
Cross Border Information’s African Energy Atlas 2013 has just come out. What does is tell us about the continent’s energy reserves, production and future prospects? This ...
