African Arguments
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INTERVIEW – Muthoni Wanyeki: “In Kenya, this is not a time when moderates are carrying the day.”
Muthoni Wanyeki is former Executive Director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC). We met in London to discuss the current environment for civil ... -
Oil drilling plan stirs hornets’ nest in Western Sahara – By African Energy
Plans by Kosmos Energy and partner Cairn Energy to drill a well next year in a Moroccan-licensed block in the Western Sahara continue to ... -
Another Rwandan Human Rights Organisation Bites the Dust – By Anonymous
Concurrent with a general preoccupation to restrict and restrain freedom of speech within Rwanda, the Government has successfully brought another human rights organisation within ... -
Why Are South Africa’s “˜Born Frees’ Scaring Zuma? – By Keith Somerville
South African President Jacob Zuma has reacted angrily to the use of the term “˜born frees’ for the generation of young South Africa who ... -
With M23 gone, will other armed groups in Eastern DRC demobilise? – By Christoph Vogel
Currently, there is a lot going on in terms of disarmament and demobilisation of armed groups in the Eastern DRC since the surrender of ... -
Kenya: an illiberal backslide in the era of the ICC – By Magnus Taylor
In recent weeks I’ve had some interesting conversations, interviews and more formal sessions on the current political situation in Kenya. In the main, these ... -
Extraordinary Ethiopia – ancient, booming but undemocratic – By Richard Dowden
When you say to people in Britain: “I’ve just been in Ethiopia”, they give you a look which says: “Poor you. Was it too ... -
In Africa, does democracy improve your health? – By Eleanor Whitehead and Zoe Flood
Back in the 1990s, the Nobel-prize winning economist Amartya Sen famously wrote that “no famine has ever taken place in a functioning democracy”, coining ... -
The Ben Ali Gap: Tunisia’s youth revolution turns over the reins of power to increasingly wrinkled hands – By Brian Klaas and Rafik Halouani
Nearly three years ago twenty-six year old Mohamed Bouazizi had his vegetable cart confiscated by police. Bouazizi was denied an audience with local authorities ... -
Africa’s media wars: a tough operating environment from Uganda to Angola – By Adam Green
It has been a bruising year for African media. In May, Ugandan police seized the offices of two newspapers after they published a leaked ...
