Politics
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Is Yoweri Museveni still the West’s Man in Africa? – By Angelo Izama
Heavily armed members of Uganda’s elite anti-terrorism police stand guard along the neatly manicured perimeter of the US Embassy in Kampala. Occasionally they shout ... -
Gay Africa: casualty of a different power struggle – By Richard Dowden
Uganda’s war over homosexuality threatens to spread to other African countries and has further damaged the increasingly strained relationship between Africa and Western donors. ... -
Have Morten Jerven and Pali Lehohla made up over “˜Poor Numbers’? – By Magnus Taylor
Last year African Arguments broke a story that the economist Morten Jerven was being prevented from speaking at the United Nations Economic Commission for ... -
Is Morgan Tsvangirai going to be deposed as MDC leader? – By Simukai Tinhu
Following defeat in the July 2013 elections, Roy Bennett, the treasurer general of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), made a direct call for ... -
Somalia’s Parallel Armies – By Liban Ahmad
We have read recently that Somalia has a National Army, but is that really the case? Upon closer scrutiny one realises that Somalia has ... -
Choosing to be a Dinka: selecting ethnicity remains an elite privilege
“Yin acÉ”l?” means “˜What is your name?’ in Dinka. They say that in Juba in December 2013 people were asked this question. If you ... -
Incompetent, under-resourced and uninformed – the international response to crisis in the CAR
Earlier this week I interviewed Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International’s senior investigator in crisis response. She has just returned from a week in the Central ... -
Niger’s consciousness awakening over national resources – By Celeste Hicks
“We’re seeing a real awakening of people’s consciousness on this issue; something is happening” says Boubacar Soumane, communications manager for EITI (Extractive Industries Transparency ... -
Somali military has more problems than lack of guns – By Mohamed Mubarak
Last week, a leaked UN report detailed a “systematic” proliferation of arms by the Somali government. However, the UN Security Council is expected to ... -
Ethiopia’s historic self-confidence writ large in the monastery at Debre Damo – By Richard Dowden
No wonder the monastery at Debre Damo has survived unmolested for some 900 years among the vast Tigrayan Mountains of Northern Ethiopia. Getting to ...
