All posts in Africa

Nelson Mandela R.I.P.
December 15, 2013, 3 Comments

The struggles that follow the victory of formal equality and universal franchise may not be as filled with drama and mor ...

The Future of the State of Africa
June 10, 2013, Comments Off on The Future of the State of Africa

George Monbiot: Corporate Carve-Up Under the pretext of preventing hunger, the rich nations are engineering a new scramb ...

Egypt in 2011-2012
December 22, 2012, 5 Comments

  He’s presiding over a country that lacks a constitution, a dissolved parliament, an economic — a huge ...

Africa: Conflict and governance 2012
December 19, 2012, Comments Off on Africa: Conflict and governance 2012

Postcards From Hell, 2012 What does living in a failed state look like? A tour through the world’s 60 most fragile cou ...

Sub-Saharan Africa: Conflict and governance (2011)
December 28, 2011, 1 Comment

 Africa 2011: top stories for the year to come A look ahead at the Africa stories that will be in the news in 2011. (Gl ...

Kenya 2008-2011
December 8, 2011, Comments Off on Kenya 2008-2011

The Greenbelt movement ; CIA World Factbook ; CIDA overview of Kenya 2011 Kenya: Elections & Aftermath – compr ...

Africa: conflict and governance
September 14, 2011, 1 Comment

Africa, China, the United States, and Oil ; Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Africa Policy Forum A ...

Wednesday Night #1539
August 31, 2011, 2 Comments

THE PROLOGUE I am not worried about inflation … The risk to the global economy is not inflation, the risk is that ...

Africa: Environmental degradation
August 5, 2011, Comments Off on Africa: Environmental degradation

Niger Delta oil damage needs decades, $1 billion to fix The environmental damage from oil spills in the small Ogoniland ...

Somalia
July 18, 2011, Comments Off on Somalia

NYT Somalia Archives BBC Somalia Q&A: Somalia has experienced almost constant conflict since the collapse of its cen ...