African Arguments
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The Road To Hell (In Africa) Is Paved With Good (Western) Intentions
The victory of retired general and former acting president Mohamed Ould Abelaziz in the 18 July presidential elections in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania ... -
Sudan: Re-Opening the Mind of the Public
Saviors and Survivors became instantly controversial, probably more from the Darfur context and conflict it seeks to address than for its detailed scholarship and ... -
Sudan: Bringing Back the State
Twenty years ago I heard the story of a southern Sudanese villager who stumbled out of the war zone into a small town in ... -
Humanitarian aid and the International Criminal Court: Grounds for divorce (2)
Pacification “NO PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE” The second main argument used in support of the International Criminal Court is that there can be “no peace ... -
Humanitarian aid and the International Criminal Court: Grounds for divorce (1)
Introduction Officially, the thirteen NGOs expelled from Sudan after an international arrest warrant was issued against Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir were being punished for ... -
Response to ‘A Waste of Hope’
The following letter from a senior ICC official has been published in World Affairs in response to the article by Julie Flint and Alex ... -
Kenya: The Normalisation of Violence
Writing more than twenty years ago about Idi Amin’s Uganda, Ali Mazrui observed that Everyone was talking about the tyrant. I suggested that more people ... -
Kenya: DIY Violence is Corrosive of Nationhood
It is not often that participants in ethnic cleansing confess to it openly, but William ole Ntimama has managed it twice: in a 1996 ... -
Kenya Post-2008: The calm before a storm?
Nineteen months have passed since Kenya’s contested 2007 election, when the rapid re-inauguration of President Mwai Kibaki heralded an outburst of post-election violence – ... -
Kenya’s Spectre of Impunity and the Politics of the Special Tribunal
On 9 July 2009, Kofi Annan the former chief mediator in the aftermath of Kenya's post-electoral violence, transferred an undisclosed list of senior politicians ...