African Arguments
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Association of Concerned Africa Scholars addresses risks of KONY2012 campaign and military solutions
The Board and Executive of the national Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (ACAS) today called on the U.S. government to give more attention to ... -
Resource Nationalism in Africa: what it means for governments, companies and communities – By Jolyon Ford at Oxford Analytica.
Today is The Times’ much-anticipated CEO Summit Africa with one of the more intriguing panels focusing on resource nationalism: opportunity or threat? Both the ... -
Understanding the al-Shabaab/al-Qaeda “˜merger’ – By Abdi Aynte
Last month, the radical Islamist group al-Shabaab, which controls vast swathes of territory in south and central Somalia, declared it was joining the al-Qaeda ... -
Democratic change in West Africa – Senegal and Guinea Bissau go to the polls – By Peter Howes, analyst at Risk Resolution Group
In the next week, two very different elections will take place in two neighbouring but divergent West African states. Both Senegal’s presidential run-off and ... -
StopKony fine, but North Uganda post-conflict reconstruction is the real story – By Marjoke Oosterom
The “˜Kony2012‘ documentary film was put online on March 5 by the US-based organisation Invisible Children. Within days, the film helped raise $5 million ... -
Somaliland did not surrender sovereignty by attending the London Conference – By Mohamed A Omar, Foreign Minister, Somaliland
Somaliland is re-engaging with international diplomacy related to its neighbour, Somalia. Our country has received widespread praise for its contribution to the recent London ... -
Malian crisis: Tuareg rebellion could spark regional violence in Mali, Niger and Southern Algeria – By Celeste Hicks
The recent outbreak of violence in northern Mali will have given governments across the Sahel with their own Tuareg populations pause for thought. While ... -
Kony: What’s to be done? – Alex de Waal
As a critic of the KONY2012 campaign, I have been asked the eminently practical question, “so what would you do about Joseph Kony and ... -
Are Diaspora Bonds Worth the Risk for Diaspora Africans? – By Dele Meiji Fatunla
The perennial worry of migrant producing states has always been that their emigrating populations have left for good, taking their skills, labor and crucially ... -
Lubanga guilty verdict will go beyond Ituri, DR Congo – By William Townsend
It would be difficult to over-emphasise the importance of today’s resounding “guilty” verdict in the trial of Congolese militia leader, Thomas Lubanga, at the ...
