Politics
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Liberia Ten Years on: corruption and accountability remain country’s biggest challenges – By Blair Glencorse
A decade ago on August 18th, 2003, the Accra Comprehensive Peace Agreement brought Liberia’s 14 year civil war to an end. As this small ... -
Collapsed, failed, criminalized? Notes on the State in Mali – By Isaline Bergamaschi
The crisis in Mali has certainly revealed some of the structural weaknesses and failures of the Malian state. Having experienced several waves of privatisation, ... -
Top Trends to Watch in Africa’s Extractives Sector (Part II) – By Rolake Akinkugbe
Read Part one here Beneficiation, local-content and value-chain policies “˜Beneficiation’, the term used to describe the proportion of the value derived from mineral ... -
Al-Shabaab 2.0: reorganisation and rebranding make terrorist group a force to be reckoned with again – By Abdihakim Ainte
As the US extends its global terrorism alert to include embassies and consulates in the Middle East and Africa, this would seem an appropriate ... -
How Eastern Africa can avoid the resource curse? – By Kennedy Opalo
Eastern Africa is the new fossil fuel frontier (for more check out this (pdf) Deloitte report). In the last few years Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and ... -
In Zimbabwe, A Luta Continua – By David B. Moore
Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF has outwitted its main opposition, Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change, once again. The Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front’s 61% to ... -
Sham or not, election flaws unlikely to unseat Mugabe – By Brian Raftopoulos
The recent elections in Zimbabwe were always likely to be problematic. Despite the hope of former South African president Thabo Mbeki in 2007 that ... -
Equatorial Guinea emerges as macroeconomic success story, but data deceptive – From Cross Border Information
This is a View article from the African Energy newsletter, a source of independent analysis on the continent’s energy industries produced by Cross-border Information, ... -
Youth, Waithood, and Protest Movements in Africa – By Alcinda Honwana
International African Institute (IAI) – Lugard Lecture 2013 Alcinda Honwana’s African Arguments book Youth and Revolution in Tunisia is available from Zed Books. This ... -
MDC must ditch its romantic face and seek power above all else – By Simukai Tinhu
So, Zimbabwe’s hotly contested elections have come and gone and the country’s patriarch, Robert Mugabe, has been declared the winner. His party, ZANU-PF, also ...
