AfricaFocus (Washington, DC)
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March 01, 2012
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Africa: Funding Slowdowns Hit Aids Programs [analysis]
In the last 15 years, AIDS activists and medical professionals, in Africa and around the world, have won the recognition that the fight against AIDS, which disproportionately... Read more »
February 23, 2012
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Senegal: Democracy or Gerontocracy?
A divided opposition and support from rural areas may yet enable aging and intransigent President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal to win a third term, with a majority in the first round... Read more »
February 15, 2012
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Africa: Social Media Updates
Although the #OccupyNigeria protests failed to gain a complete rollback of the price increase in petrol last month, they clearly had significant impact. In addition to a partial... Read more »
February 10, 2012
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Africa: Counting the Costs of Brain Drain
According to a study published in the British Medical Journal in November 2011, nine sub-Saharan countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia... Read more »
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Africa: Brain Drains in Context
Topics linked to migration, such as remittances and brain drains, have attracted increasing attention in discussions of development. But such specific issues should be considered... Read more »
February 03, 2012
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Africa: Paying for Health [analysis]
"Simply put, if we allow the fund to fail, many people will die, and we will forfeit the chance at the "AIDS-free generation" that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called... Read more »
January 30, 2012
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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, 2012
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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 30, 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 21, 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 17, 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 07, 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 »
November 29, 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 25, 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 16, 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 03, 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 27, 2011
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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 »
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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: 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 »
October 20, 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 »
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