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Author: websolve

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  • Politics
    By websolve
    April 7, 2011
    2787
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    Nigeria election blog II – Dowden in Africa

    I am woken by a frantic voice blaring from a coarse loudspeaker, demanding, pleading, insisting. The voice rises to a hysterical shriek, then breaks into slow ...
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  • Politics
    By websolve
    April 7, 2011
    2227
    0

    The African Renaissance and the long Arab spring

    The Egyptian "youth revolution" has been compared to innumerable historical instances ranging from France's 1789, to Russia's 1991, Berlin's 1989, via Iran's 1979 and the more ...
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  • Politics
    By websolve
    March 29, 2011
    2166
    0

    Cote d’Ivoire and Ouattarra

    The man Ivorian Presidents love to hate By Daniel Balint-Kurti Ivory Coast, the one-time poster boy of West Africa, has seen its long-drawn-out crisis deepen since ...
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  • Politics
    By websolve
    March 29, 2011
    2081
    0

    The African Union – compromised from all sides

    What is going on with the African Union? Is its drifting away from the bold values declared in its Constitutive Act, meant to signal a definitive ...
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  • Politics
    By websolve
    March 25, 2011
    2067
    3

    Southern Libya’s Vortex and the Threat to Africa

    One reason why Africans worry about Libya is that they see the possibility of a protracted civil war with multiple power centres, which destabilizes the entire ...
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  • Politics
    By websolve
    March 18, 2011
    2508
    0

    Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan’s post liberation instability

    Is East Africa slowly democratizing, or about to turn back the clock and slide into political violence again?
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  • Politics
    By websolve
    March 18, 2011
    2593
    0

    North Africa Political Change – An RAS Guide

    Tunisia and the ousting of Ben Ali came first – beginning in December 2010 and reaching a high-point when the President stepped down in January 2011.
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  • Politics
    By websolve
    March 9, 2011
    1980
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    Homosexuality and the battle for Africa’s soul

    By Mark Gevisser* – 07/03/2011 This piece was first published in the Mail and Guardian in June 2010 “These boys committed a crime against our culture, ...
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  • Politics
    By websolve
    March 3, 2011
    2252
    0

    Somalia: failure of international community not yet acknowledged

    Throughout the last week of February, several important military operations took place in Somalia - Mogadishu, Hiiraan and Gedo - against al-Shabaab. Militia supported by Ethiopia, ...
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  • Politics
    By websolve
    March 2, 2011
    2501
    0

    Libya: the internal dynamics of collapse

    The Qadhafi regime in Libya is tottering and is likely to collapse within days, despite its reputation for brutality and intolerance. Its disappearance is all-the-more ...
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