Tag: Africa
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South African Solutions for Africa’s Problems? – By Alexander Beresford
South Africa has played a central role in conflict mediation across the African continent in the past two decades. This short piece will examine some of ... -
DRC/ North Kivu: Waiting for the intervention brigade – By Kris Berwouts
M23 withdrew from Goma in the first days of December 2012. In the days and weeks after their retreat, several international initiatives were launched which eventually ... -
Tunisian Civil Society needs transparent, efficient help from Europe – By Mourad Teyeb
The European support to Tunisia should not turn into empowering the very people and groups against whom Tunisians revolted in 2011. The European Union (EU) is ... -
THIN-SKINNED QUARRELS: MONUSCO AND HUMANITARIAN ACTION IN THE CONGO – By Christoph Vogel
Last week, medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontií¨res (MSF/Doctors Without Borders) published an op-ed in Congolese newspapers, underlining the need for humanitarian actors to operate in line ... -
Why Liberia’s Proposed Dual Citizenship Legislation Should Be Based on Evidence, Not Sentiments – By Robtel Neajai Pailey
Cecil Frank is an unassuming man, but he’s got some firebrand politics. His is a story that typifies the peculiar migratory history of Liberia””a country “˜founded’ ... -
China’s Non-Interference Policy and Growing African Concerns – By Alula A. Iyasu
In October 2012, the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) held a China-Africa Forum in Bishoftu, Ethiopia. The event was perhaps the first of its ... -
The Commonwealth: Reiterating imperial roots – By Richard Dowden
I gather that the Royal Commonwealth Society and the Commonwealth Foundation are to be merged next year and presented as a Jubilee gift to the Queen ... -
Wikileaks – China, the US and Africa
China's relations with Africa hit the headlines again recently with the publication of what seemed to be sensational revelations in a dozen or so of the ...
