AfricaFocus (Washington, DC)
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February 1
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East Africa: Sudan, South Sudan Face Lose-Lose Scenario
Sudan and South Sudan seem to have entered a "lose-lose" scenario, precipitated by failure to agree on payments for transport of oil from fields in South Sudan through the pipeline... Read more »
January 23
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Africa: Kenya - Impunity & Elections, 2
"The promulgation of the constitution on 27 August 2010, was a historic moment in our country. The constitution was a culmination of the work of a lifetime for most people in this... Read more »
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Africa: Kenya - Impunity & Elections, 1
"Public support for the ICC remains high. A majority of the respondents - 64 per cent - are happy that the ICC is pursuing the six suspects. ... the perception that the government... Read more »
December 31, 2011
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Africa: Review 2011
As regular readers know, AfricaFocus averages between 6 and 7 issues a month (a total of 77 this year). So there is no way that it can cover the full range of issues and countries... Read more »
December 22, 2011
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Congo-Kinshasa: Dubious Mandate, Uncertain Future [analysis]
Joseph Kabila was inaugurated for his second term as president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on December 20, with representation from Western countries limited to... Read more »
December 19, 2011
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Africa: Measuring Capital Flight
"The magnitude of African capital flight is staggering both in absolute monetary values and relative to GDP. For the thirty-three sub-Saharan African countries for which we have... Read more »
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Africa: Capital Flight Hits Continent Hard
This week Global Financial Integrity released its latest report on illicit financial flows from developing countries, including data for 2009. The result: despite a drop in 2009... Read more »
December 12, 2011
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Africa: Books New & Notable 2011 [book listing]
It's past time for one of our too infrequent book issues. I've organized this one into three groups of new books I've come across this year: three books on current priority issues... Read more »
December 9, 2011
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Africa: Carbon Trading Deceptions [analysis]
"Africa's share has remained at about two per cent of CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) projects officially registered with the UN's climate change secretariat. If South Africa and... Read more »
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Africa: Climate Change Updates [analysis]
"Rich countries must hear loud and clear that Africa won't pay for their crisis. Developed countries are trying to kill the Kyoto Protocol. They want to turn back the clock to 1997... Read more »
December 1, 2011
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Congo-Kinshasa: Election Background Analysis [analysis]
In less than a week, on 28 November, millions of Congolese are set to go to the polls to elect the country's president for the next five years. Of the dozen candidates in the... Read more »
November 26, 2011
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South Africa: Secrecy Bill Evokes Apartheid Era
"The new South Africa is not comparable to the evils of old. But on Tuesday, when parliament passed a state secrecy law, we were shamed. The ANC became like its apartheid... Read more »
November 17, 2011
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Africa: Fast-Paced Mobile Growth Continues
"With over 620 million mobile connections as of September 2011, Africa has overtaken Latin America to become the second largest mobile market in the world, after Asia. Over the... Read more »
November 10, 2011
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Tunisia: Nation 'Lights the Way' in Arab Spring
"Tunisia was the first Arab country to have a pro-democracy uprising in the winter of 2010-2011, and now it is the first to have held an election. ... In the eyes of many... Read more »
November 4, 2011
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Africa: Economies of War [analysis]
"Al-Shabaab's resilience, despite its lack of popular support and the chronic divisions within its leadership, is principally due to the weakness of the Transitional Federal... Read more »
October 28, 2011
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Africa: Real Climate Finance Options [analysis]
Expectations are low for the international summit on climate change scheduled for next month in Durban, South Africa. A face-saving agreement to keep talking is perhaps the most... Read more »
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Africa: Climate Talks Background, 2 [analysis]
"Running from 28 November to 9 December, [the Durban conference] will be at least a theoretical chance to restore faith in the glacial progress towards agreement on an effective... Read more »
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Africa: Climate Talks Background, 1 [analysis]
"For Durban, many countries - particularly developing countries - seek an outcome that is based on science, on the multilateral system reflected in the Convention and its Kyoto... Read more »
October 21, 2011
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Africa: Eliminating Malaria [analysis]
"Over the past decade, scaling up the delivery of existing interventions [against malaria] is estimated to have saved more than one million lives in Africa alone, with the majority... Read more »
October 14, 2011
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Africa: Africa - Migration, Inequalities And Human Rights [analysis]
Issues related to the situation of refugees and other migrants are hotly contested in locations as diverse as Libya, South Africa, Kenya, Western Europe, and the United States.... Read more »
October 8, 2011
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Sudan: Civil War in the North?
"New thinking is required to take into account a Khartoum regime now in the hands of Sudan Armed Forces generals, a unifying opposition that seeks regime change, and an... Read more »
October 4, 2011
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Africa: New Economic Crisis On the Way
"It is now clear that the world is slipping -- or has already slipped -- into a new economic downturn, and that this will have serious consequences for the developing countries.... Read more »
September 20, 2011
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Africa: Observations & Questions
As was the case for Tunisia and Egypt, there has been no shortage of day-to-day news coverage (often contradictory) and impassioned international policy debate on the Libyan... Read more »
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Libya: What Does Gaddafi's Fall Mean for Africa?
"Whereas the fall of Mubarak and Ben Ali directed our attention to internal social forces, the fall of Gaddafi has brought a new equation to the forefront: the connection between... Read more »
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Libya: Fall of Gaddafi - Lessons for Africa
"That the West has always had a nefarious agenda in Africa is not news--we all remember the slave trade, colonialism, and structural adjustment. But we give the West too much power... Read more »
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