October 24, 2012

• Africa: Guinea-Bissau, Coups and Africa's Cocaine Equation [analysis]

  After an assault on an air force base in Guinea Bissau left six dead early Sunday, the tiny West African nation's civilian government issued a swift, damning verdict: That the... Read more »

October 19, 2012

• West Africa: Stopping West African Drug Trafficking [analysis]

  Everyone working on drugs in Africa should read Neil Carrier and Gernot Klantschnig’s short but insightful new book, Africa and the War on Drugs. Read more »

May 09, 2012

• Guinea Bissau: Ecowas 'Zero Tolerance' Principle Is Highly Tolerant After All [analysis]

  The international community's immediate condemnation of the military coup that took place in Guinea-Bissau on April 12 seemed to suggest that it was doomed to fail. Formally... Read more »

April 23, 2012

• Guinea Bissau: Military Plays Politics to Defend Own Power [analysis]

  On the night of 12th April Guinea-Bissau 'Military Command' put troops on to the streets of Bissau, the country's capital, closed the frontiers, imprisoned the Prime Minister, the... Read more »

April 18, 2012

• Africa: Political Risk in Africa - Predicting the Unpredictable [analysis]

  A principal quality that analysts of African business and politics need is humility. Events in North Africa in 2011 must have led to some uncomfortable questions between firms and... Read more »

April 17, 2012

• Guinea Bissau: Coup Threatens Angolan Investments [analysis]

  The latest coup in Guinea-Bissau was likely led by Army Chief of Staff Antonio Indjai and motivated by discontent over Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior's attempt to use the... Read more »

March 17, 2012

• West Africa: Senegal and Guinea Bissau Go to the Polls [analysis]

  In the next week, two very different elections will take place in two neighbouring but divergent West African states. Both Senegal's presidential run-off and the Guinea Bissau... Read more »