Politics
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Oil drilling plan stirs hornets’ nest in Western Sahara – By African Energy
Plans by Kosmos Energy and partner Cairn Energy to drill a well next year in a Moroccan-licensed block in the Western Sahara continue to ... -
Another Rwandan Human Rights Organisation Bites the Dust – By Anonymous
Concurrent with a general preoccupation to restrict and restrain freedom of speech within Rwanda, the Government has successfully brought another human rights organisation within ... -
Why Are South Africa’s “˜Born Frees’ Scaring Zuma? – By Keith Somerville
South African President Jacob Zuma has reacted angrily to the use of the term “˜born frees’ for the generation of young South Africa who ... -
With M23 gone, will other armed groups in Eastern DRC demobilise? – By Christoph Vogel
Currently, there is a lot going on in terms of disarmament and demobilisation of armed groups in the Eastern DRC since the surrender of ... -
Kenya: an illiberal backslide in the era of the ICC – By Magnus Taylor
In recent weeks I’ve had some interesting conversations, interviews and more formal sessions on the current political situation in Kenya. In the main, these ... -
Extraordinary Ethiopia – ancient, booming but undemocratic – By Richard Dowden
When you say to people in Britain: “I’ve just been in Ethiopia”, they give you a look which says: “Poor you. Was it too ... -
In Africa, does democracy improve your health? – By Eleanor Whitehead and Zoe Flood
Back in the 1990s, the Nobel-prize winning economist Amartya Sen famously wrote that “no famine has ever taken place in a functioning democracy”, coining ... -
The Ben Ali Gap: Tunisia’s youth revolution turns over the reins of power to increasingly wrinkled hands – By Brian Klaas and Rafik Halouani
Nearly three years ago twenty-six year old Mohamed Bouazizi had his vegetable cart confiscated by police. Bouazizi was denied an audience with local authorities ... -
Africa’s media wars: a tough operating environment from Uganda to Angola – By Adam Green
It has been a bruising year for African media. In May, Ugandan police seized the offices of two newspapers after they published a leaked ... -
Politics not Refugees at heart of Repatriation to Somalia – By Ben Rawlence
Last week I was in Dadaab refugee camp when the World Food Programme, in the midst of a budget crisis, took the unprecedented step ...
