African Arguments
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Violence, photography and the iconography of South Sudan’s cattle camps – By Carol Berger
Some years ago a curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford asked me to look at a photograph taken in South Sudan in ... -
Somalia food shortages worsened by NGO policy and anti-terrorism laws – By Mohamed Mubarak
As the UN warns of an impending famine in Somalia, it is important to look at the track record of aid organisations in responding ... -
Will (re)constructing the CAR’s security sector help protect its population? – By Gabriella Ingerstad
Amnesty International recently published a report calling for the investigation, prosecution and punishment of the perpetrators in the on-going violent conflict in CAR. The ... -
Zambia: Sata sickness opens up can of worms for Patriotic Front – By Arthur Simuchoba
The health of the 77-year old Zambian President Michael Sata currently ranks among the most sensitive of issues in the country and has come ... -
Are British charities turning their backs on African disasters? – By Martin Plaut
Aircraft are circling over South Sudan. During the bitter years of war that led to the birth of this state in 2011 they would ... -
Darfur displaced forced to choose between a rock and a hard place – By Lucy Hovil
Over the past few years, the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region has faded from the headlines. While levels of violence decreased following a peak ... -
Banda and the new broom: the trials and tribulations of a Zambian spin-doctor – By Magnus Taylor
I came across Dickson Jere at a lunch I got a late invite to as a replacement for a much better-known journalist. Still, beggars ... -
Ruminations at the end of an assignment – Kieran Holmes bids farewell to Burundi
Kieran Holmes is the first Commissioner General of the new Office Burundais des Recettes. As I look out my office window directly above the ... -
Zimbabwe: one year on ZANU-PF consolidates power, but economy remains in dire straits
One year on from Zimbabwe’s heavily disputed 2013 elections, we asked Simukai Tinhu, a Zimbabwean political analyst (and regular AA contributor) and Nicole Beardsworth, ... -
One hundred days later and the Chibok girls are still not free – By Debbie Ariyo
Today, 22 July, marks 100 days since the abduction of almost 300 girls by terrorists from their school dormitory in Chibok, North East Nigeria. ...
