Politics
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Kenyan gloom and ineffective authoritarianism: free-form thinking on the state of Eastern Africa – By Magnus Taylor
I’ve had the happy opportunity to participate in a couple of discussion seminars/roundtable events over the past 10 days on the East African region. ... -
Leaked agreement shows Tanzania may not get a good deal for gas – By Ben Taylor
Natural gas is on the scene in Tanzania, and expectations are sky high. There are those who see this as the end of aid ... -
Al Shabaab’s foreign operations arm is busy recruiting in Kenya – By Mohamed Mubarak
For months, the Kenyan security forces have been rounding up ethnic Somalis in Nairobi. This is part of a security operation (Operation Usalama Watch) ... -
Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF softens economic approach desperate for international investment – By Nkululeko Sibanda
As Zimbabwe approaches a year since the re-election of President Robert Mugabe and the end of the Government of National Unity, we asked journalist ... -
Mauritania elections: Aziz victorious, but opposition primed for future confrontations – By Boubacar N’Diaye
As he flew to Malabo, capital of Equatorial Guinea, to preside over an African Union summit on the fight against terrorism, President Mohamed Ould ... -
Power Africa forms US bridgehead in hoped for boom market – From African Energy
Launched by President Barack Obama in Cape Town one year ago, the Power Africa initiative has been making bold claims about its early successes ... -
Africa’s aging leaders must give way to a new generation or face disaster – By Richard Dowden
Telling Africans and their leaders what to do – or not do – is not in my nature. Outsiders do not have a good ... -
Malawi: Peter Mutharika must win back donor support by showing he is more than just Bingu’s brother – By Frank Jomo
Three weeks into his first term in office, Malawi’s new leader Peter Mutharika finally named the 20-member cabinet he promised Malawians on the campaign ... -
Somalia: Heading from Fragility to Fragmentation? – By Dr Dominik Balthasar
Somalia has achieved important progress since the onset of the year of 2014. Most prominent among the positive developments is the push-back of al-Shabaab, ... -
Sudan: is the National Dialogue really dead? (And did it ever really exist anyway?) – By James Copnall
“˜The National Dialogue is dead’. The verdict comes from Ghazi Salaheddin Atabani, one of the longest-serving Islamist intellectuals of the Bashir era, who defected ...
