Politics
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Congo/Uganda: high profile military operations against ADF will not rebuild local stability – By Caroline Hellyer
After a period of apparent quiet in the Grand North – the area that runs down from the Rwenzori Mountains to the bottom of ... -
Congo: President Kabila must respect the constitution and not seek a third term – By Decky Kipuka Kabongi
There is currently one question dominating political debate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): Will President Kabila change the constitution and seek ... -
REVIEW: Séverine Autesserre’s ‘Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention’ – By Michael Deibert
Reviewed By Michael Deibert – Living in Haiti on a limited journalist stringer’s budget, as I did for much of 2001 to 2004, I ... -
Do journalists use double standards when reporting vulnerable subjects far from “˜home’? – By Matthew Le Riche
A photograph of two South Sudanese children, with names listed directly below, sits adjacent the headline “South Sudan’s Boy Soldiers Swap Schoolbooks for Kalashnikovs”. ... -
PROFILE: Salva Kiir – South Sudan’s Commander-in-chief – image vs reality
Ten years before the start of South Sudan’s current war, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) held a meeting at Rumbek in which the ... -
Ebola, Economics and Equality in Africa – By Raymond Gilpin
The speed with which the current Ebola epidemic swept across parts of West Africa, claiming over 4,000 lives in the first six months and ... -
Mozambique Election Preview: end of the Guebuza era? – By Cate Reid
As Mozambique prepares to go to the polls on Wednesday 15 October, there are signs that the country could be at a political turning ... -
How the death penalty is slowly weakening its grip on Africa – By Thomas Probert
At both global and continental levels there is an observable trend towards the abolition of the death penalty. More than two thirds of all ... -
Congo: Kabila reshuffles his military pack – By Alex Ntung
The recent and unprecedented reshuffle of the leadership of the military (FARDC) in the DRC is the most important reorganisation of the institution’s command ... -
Lin Muyizere and the unbearable lightness of Dutch nationality – By Kris Berwouts
Lin Muyizere is a Dutchman. At least for the time being. On September 27th 2014 he received a letter from the State Secretary for ...
