AfricaFocus (Washington, DC)
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January 31
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Africa: Press Freedom Index
Reporters Without Borders has just published their Press Freedom Index for 2013, with a brief review and ratings of conditions for journalists in 179 countries around the world.... Read more »
January 23
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Africa: Half of World's Food Lost to Waste
"The world produces about four billion metric tonnes of food per year, but wastes up to half of this food through poor practices and inadequate infrastructure. By improving... Read more »
January 15
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Mali: Fierce Fighting Will Open New Dangers
"Three things emerge from the haze. First, fierce fighting in the North and the East, with French forces in the lead, will open up a whole new set of dangers. With Islamist forces... Read more »
December 20, 2012
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Africa: Africa - Books New & Notable [book listing]
This annual books issue contains 22 books that have come to my attention that seemed to me to be of particular interest. It's hardly a systematic selection, and I've only read a... Read more »
December 13, 2012
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Africa: Time for Climate Justice
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December 05, 2012
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Africa: Africa - Towards the End of Aids
"[Despite significant advances} the epidemic of HIV/AIDS is far from over. According to the most recent statistics from UNAIDS, there are still 2.5 million new HIV infections... Read more »
November 28, 2012
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Congo-Kinshasa: War in the East
In a statement issued earlier this week, a coalition of Congolese organizations has called for sanctions against Rwanda, Uganda, and any other individuals or entities that threaten... Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: War in the East
"The 'International community' invested in an army, but after all these years the FARDC [Congolese national army] has remained much more a part of the problem then a part of the... Read more »
November 20, 2012
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Africa: Debt Audits and Debt Repudiation
"Repudiation of odious debt, if properly implemented, is selective rather than indiscriminate. Creditors who lend in good faith for legitimate projects have no reason to fear a... Read more »
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Africa: Capital Losses, What Can Be Done?
"Both rich countries and Africa suffer from a global system of financial secrecy, in which rich individuals and large companies hide income and assets from public scrutiny and from... Read more »
November 15, 2012
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Africa: A Rare U.S./Africa Policy Success [analysis]
"In 2011, the number of successful pirate attacks fell by half compared to 2010. This year, in 2012, the number of successful attacks off the Horn of Africa has continued to... Read more »
November 05, 2012
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Nigeria: 'Security' Forces Escalate Insecurity
Even as new reports from international human rights groups document a pattern of major offenses against human rights by both Boko Haram extremists and government security forces in... Read more »
October 28, 2012
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Africa: Social Security & the Right to Food
Since Amartya Sen's pioneering work on the subject three decades ago, it has been a truism that famine is caused most directly not by shortages of food but by inequalities which... Read more »
October 22, 2012
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Africa: Whose Property? Whose Rights?
In early November, a ministerial-level meeting of the African Union is preparing to approve the draft statute for a new Pan-African Intellectual Property Organization. But critics... Read more »
October 15, 2012
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West Africa: Mali Intervention Could be Catastrophic [analysis]
With thousands of nationalist demonstrators in Bamako calling for military intervention to regain control of the north of Mali from Islamic extremists, and a unanimous Security... Read more »
October 12, 2012
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Cote d'Ivoire: Toxic Waste, Failed Accountability
"This is a story of corporate crime, human rights abuse and governments' failure to protect people and the environment. It is a story that exposes how systems for enforcing... Read more »
October 03, 2012
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Southern Africa: Climate Threat to Zambezi Basin
According to a new study released in September, "There will be a significant reduction in the amount of water flowing through the [Zambezi] river system, affecting all eight... Read more »
September 24, 2012
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Africa: Africa - the Hidden Issue of 'Gene Grabbing'
"Patents on the sorghum genome are the contemporary biotech equivalent of an 18th Century European explorer planting his flag on an ill-understood foreign land and claiming it for... Read more »
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Africa: Shades of Green, 1
"AGRA adopts a fairly good critique of prior approaches to support for African agriculture, including systematic under- investment, the historical focus on large-scale agriculture... Read more »
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Africa: Africa - Shades of Green, 2
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), the centerpiece of donor-initiated plans for agricultural development in Africa, is replete with positive language about food... Read more »
September 16, 2012
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Somalia: New Start, Stubborn Realities
The unexpected election of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, an educator and civil society activist, as the new president of Somalia, has aroused hopes of a new start in that country. But the... Read more »
September 06, 2012
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South Africa: The Price of Platinum [analysis]
"The recent study of the Bench Marks Foundation has predicted the problems now seen at Marikana. If all the mining houses had addressed the underlying causes of unrest and provided... Read more »
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South Africa: The Marikana Era? [analysis]
Will Marikana become an emblematic symbol for an era of post-apartheid plutocracy, as did Sharpeville for the apartheid era in the decades following 1960? Or will it, as many hope,... Read more »
August 09, 2012
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Africa: Africa - Global Pirates Vs. Tax Justice
A new report from the Tax Justice Network estimates that the global super-rich have at least $21 trillion in secret tax havens, the equivalent of the United States and Japanese... Read more »
July 31, 2012
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Mali: Warning Over Western Intervention
"The reason West Africans and others make the Afghan comparison [for Mali] is to sound the alarm over an emerging Islamist safe haven in the Sahara that could be used as a... Read more »
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