Politics
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Politically reduced, broke and with no clear vision: Renamo returns to the bush – By Joseph Hanlon
Recent skirmishes between Renamo guerrillas and Mozambican government military, leading to Monday’s attack on Afonso Dhlakama’s headquarters in Santungira, need to be viewed in ... -
On Tanzania, Obama is getting it wrong – By Sarah Hermitage
In September President Kikwete of Tanzania was among ten African leaders to attend a meeting in New York organised by President Obama for heads ... -
Rwanda and the ICC: Playing Politics with Justice – By Stephen A. Lamony
Rwanda’s stated position on the International Criminal Court (ICC) is highly critical. Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo called the ICC “a political court” and ... -
Western Sahara: time is ripe for promotion up international agenda (companies, policy makers and population all agree) – from African Energy
The conflict over the former Spanish Sahara is all too often forgotten. But there is a growing feeling in policy circles – shared by ... -
Kieran Holmes: the toughest taxman in Africa – By Magnus Taylor
In the last five years the OBR has increased government revenue from 300 to 560 billion Burundian francs. Holmes asserts that they should ... -
Is it possible to do business in Africa without engaging in corruption? – asks ETK’s Kevin Korgba
The number of British businesses looking to expand into Africa is on the rise. We know that enterprise on the continent is growing – ... -
Making Sense of the Protests in Khartoum – By Alex de Waal
This essay was originally posted on African Futures, a digital forum of the Social Science Research Council. In the ten days following September 23, ... -
Citadels of learning, Boko Haram’s new slaughter fields – By Alkasim Abdulkadir
The insurgency in Nigeria’s North Eastern corner has once more brought into sharp relief the precarious balance between life and death in the region. ... -
Mo Ibrahim Prize 2013: and the winner is…Afro-realism – By Magnus Taylor
African economies are generally growing – we know that and it can be well-documented through trusted economic data. But is African governance also rising? ... -
Converting resource wealth to economic development: what role for “˜local content’? – By Peter Dí¶rrie
Few topics were debated as intensively at the recent International Economic Forum on Africa in Paris as the question of local content in the ...
