Politics
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Kismayo and the Rise and Fall of a Somali President – By Abdiaziz Abdi
Something very bizarre is happening in Somalia. While Al-Shabaab is still active and wreaking havoc on the country, Somalis are again dividing themselves along ... -
Your Rendezvous with the African Middle Class – By Bright Simons
If you are in business and Africa has been on your radar I am very sure it is partly because of boiling enthusiasm about ... -
The Africa Business Briefing May/June 2013: Offshore Centres, Financial Justice and Multinational Business – By Desné Masie
Q2 | May/June 2013 Desné Masie This is the third edition of our Africa Business Briefing, which is published monthly, with business and economics ... -
The false God of 0.7: understanding the Aid Business – By Richard Thomas
The debate about the UK aid programme has been heating up over the last few months. There is general agreement that we should respond ... -
The Cost of Ignoring the Kismayo Crisis – By Abdihakim Ainte
Though often caricatured as a violent failed state, over the last year Somalia has reached a state of relative calm. Despite this week’s heinous ... -
Africa’s ‘Rise’ precarious whilst investors still consider safer destinations – By Hannah Waddilove
The G8 ended their two-day meet this week with a set of fairly flimsy bullet points on the issue of corporate taxation, at least ... -
Mali: 3 new briefings from African Affairs
The crisis in Mali has received considerable media attention, but due to the turnaround in academic publishing far less scholarly analysis is available. African ... -
Libya: Political, logistical and security problems challenge National Oil Company’s move to Benghazi – By John Hamilton
The Libyan government’s decision to relocate the headquarters of National Oil Corporation (NOC) from Tripoli to Benghazi raises more questions than it answers. These ... -
Memo to the SRF: try not to kill any more Ethiopian peacekeepers
If you fight for or sympathise with the SPLM-North and the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), you might argue almost any place in South Kordofan ... -
AU Chair Dlamini-Zuma complains that discussions on tax “always take place at the end of the G8″ – By Magnus Taylor
Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union, congratulated G8 countries for taking issues of tax and transparency seriously, particularly with reference to African ...
