Politics
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Celebrating the bureaucratisation of peace: the Addis implementation matrix – By Aly Verjee
March 2013: another Addis negotiating marathon, another document heralded as the “˜breakthrough‘ agreement between Sudan and South Sudan. The 68-point implementation matrix (not counting ... -
Bosco Ntaganda: next stop The Hague for The Terminator? – By Kris Berwouts
Killer King On March 18th 2013, Bosco Ntaganda walked into the American embassy in Kigali and requested to be delivered to the International Criminal ... -
Mali’s Bad Trip: Field notes from the West African drug trade – By Andrew Lebovich
Bamako, March 2013 “If he returns to Gao, people will make kebabs out of him,” a friend told me with a laugh over lunch ... -
Walmart in Africa: Unpacking the Monolithic Market – By Matt Mossman
Walmart’s recent arrival in South Africa was in many ways like the company’s arrival in any other market: contested and controversial. Nonetheless it was ... -
Blinded by science: the problems of sorting out identity in Africa – By Keith Somerville
Morten Bí¸í¥s and Kevin Dunn, Politics of Origin in Africa: Autochthony, citizenship and conflict, London: Zed, 2013, ISBN 978 1 84813 996 1 pb, ... -
In the shadow of the baobab: Kagame blows cold and hot on a third mandate – By Kris Berwouts
In October 1990, after Fred Rwigyema’s death on the third day the struggle to conquer Rwanda, Paul Kagame took over the command over the ... -
African roles in the Libyan conflict of 2011 – By Alex de Waal
The World Peace Foundation invites you to submit questions in response to this article for Alex de Waal to answer. You can submit a ... -
Donald Kaberuka: “There are new ways, new alternatives towards achieving economic success” – By Desné Masie
Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank (AFDB), spoke at the Royal African Society’s Business Breakfast on 11 March 2013 addressing the question: ... -
Central African Republic: peace talks without the talks – By Kennedy Tumutegyereize and Nicolas Tillon, Conciliation Resources
It took three days for the Seleka Coalition and the Government of the Central African Republic (CAR) to reach a peace agreement mediated by ... -
Is all well in the teak forests of South Sudan? – By Aly Verjee
Think of tropical hard wood – ebony, mahogany, teak – and you probably don’t think of South Sudan. One of the country’s lesser-known natural ...
