Politics
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Journalism in Somalia: booming but beset by dangers – By Jay Bahadur
MOGADISHU”” Mohamed Abdi Warsame’s hand shakes as he places it on my knee. “Some say my brother was killed over a woman,” he says. ... -
Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations – By Richard Dowden
We often get famous professors on stage for our meetings but they are not often joined by the scion of South Africa’s richest family, ... -
Why the actions of a South African billionaire highlight the dangers of capital flight for the continent – By Desné Masie
South African billionaire Mark Shuttleworth has recently won an important case against the South African Reserve Bank in the Supreme Court of Appeal. The ... -
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 ...
