AfricaFocus (Washington, DC)
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November 6, 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 29, 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 24, 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 16, 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 15, 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 5, 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 26, 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: 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 »
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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 »
September 18, 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 7, 2012
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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 »
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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 »
August 10, 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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Africa: End of Aids in Sight, 2
"As leaders and scientists prepare to discuss the latest initiatives needed to scale up treatment to such a high level it could potentially end the epidemic, seven million people... Read more »
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Africa: End of Aids in Sight, 1
"Even without a vaccine or a cure, it became clear this week that science has given us the tools we need to dramatically change the course of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and ultimately... Read more »
July 17, 2012
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Ethiopia: Counterterrorism As Pretext
On July 13 an Ethiopian court handed down heavy prison sentences to six journalists convicted on vague terrorism charges. Award-winning blogger Eskinder Nega got an 18-year term;... Read more »
July 3, 2012
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Zimbabwe: Diamonds Fund Parallel Government
A new report from Global Witness reveals that Zimbabwe's Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) appears to have received off budget financing from a Hong Kong-based businessman as... Read more »
June 25, 2012
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Africa: Israel/Africa - Denying Refugee Rights
Last week Israel began deportation of South Sudanese and Ivorian asylum seekers. Other asylum seekers, primarily from Sudan and Eritrea, remain in an indefinite limbo, with no... Read more »
June 21, 2012
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Africa: Reject 'Terrorist' Designation for Boko Haram
Bills introduced in the U.S. House and Senate in May, if passed, would require the U.S. Secretary of State to present a report on whether Boko Haram in Nigeria should be formally... Read more »
June 18, 2012
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Africa: Africa - Key Issues At Rio+20 [analysis]
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, more commonly known as Rio+20, is in full talking mode this week, although the official summit takes place next week, on... Read more »
June 8, 2012
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West Africa: Sahel Food Crisis is Real [analysis]
"The high prices of basic foods are the most alarming feature of the current Sahel crisis, according to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) of the US Agency for... Read more »
June 4, 2012
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Africa: U.S. Faces Pressure to Militarize Africa Policy
"The committee believes that activities that utilize U.S. Special Operations Forces and an 'indirect approach' that leverages local and indigenous forces should be used more... Read more »
May 25, 2012
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Africa: G8 Detour On Food Security [analysis]
The Camp David summit of the G-8 countries, held on May 17-18, announced a "New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition," pitched as potentially raising 60 billion people out of... Read more »
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Africa: Food Security and Human Development [analysis]
"This [Africa Human Development] Report argues that subSaharan Africa can extricate itself from pervasive food insecurity by acting on four critical drivers of change: greater... Read more »
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