AfricaFocus (Washington, DC)
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September 12, 2011
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Africa: Dead End for Diamond Monitoring?
According to a new analysis from Partnership Africa Canada, the Kimberley Process, a joint government-industry-civil society group intended to monitor "conflict diamonds" is... Read more »
August 30, 2011
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Africa: China/Africa - Development Lessons, 1 [analysis]
--"A consensus is building, in both private and official appraisals, and in OECD as well as emerging market countries, that Africa will be the next big emerging region. It is... Read more »
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Africa: China/Africa - Development Lessons, 2 [analysis]
"The prospects for economic transformation have never been better in Africa. The higher growth performance in the last decade in Africa reflects an underlying trend towards... Read more »
August 29, 2011
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Africa: New Data On African Immigrants to U.S.
"From 1980 to 2009, the African-born population in United States grew from just under 200,000 to almost 1.5 million. Today, Africans make up a small (3.9 percent) but growing share... Read more »
August 23, 2011
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Africa: USA/Africa - Wage Penalties for Black Immigrants [analysis]
The popular discussion of black immigrants often exaggerates their achievements and denigrates U.S.-born blacks. One regularly hears asked, "Why do black immigrants do better than... Read more »
August 8, 2011
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East Africa: Responding to Famine
It is difficult to get beyond dichotomies. Either focus on responding to undeniably massive life-threatening famine or on understanding the multiple causes and the reasons that it... Read more »
July 30, 2011
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Malawi: Challenging Power & Corruption
"The protests and riots of July 20 are fundamentally about governance and development, the enduring desire among Malawians for the establishment of a sustainable democratic... Read more »
July 25, 2011
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Somalia: Local Crisis, Global Crisis
The early warning systems worked. But the response to the famine in the Horn of Africa, which is particularly severe in Somalia, has still been too little and too late, as is the... Read more »
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Somalia: Drought Follows Years of Overcrowding in Refugee Camps
The new drought crisis, and increased flow of refugees to Kenya and Ethiopia, comes on top of years of overcrowding and incapacity to deal with the refugee flow from Somalia. Read more »
July 15, 2011
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Africa: Africa - Renewable Energy Rising Rapidly [analysis]
"Global investment in renewable energy jumped 32% in 2010, to a record $211 billion. It was boosted in particular by wind farm development in China and small-scale solar PV... Read more »
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Africa: Africa - Little Momentum in Climate Talks [analysis]
"We agreed in Bali in December 2007 to build a much stronger international climate regime to better cope with recent alarming analysis of the disastrous effects of climate change.... Read more »
July 6, 2011
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South Africa: Taking Leadership in Aids Fight
South Africa's 5th AIDS conference, held from June 7-10 this year, marked a remarkable turnaround in the country's efforts against the AIDS pandemic. Achievements noted included... Read more »
June 30, 2011
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Gabon: Reform Not At Top of U.S. Agenda
The White House was brief in an official statement after the June 9 visit of the President of Gabon. The statement concluded by noting that "President Obama urged President Bongo... Read more »
June 24, 2011
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Sudan: New Violence, Uncertain Future
"The remainder of [Sudan] remains saddled with the 'Sudan Problem', where power, resources and development continue to be overly concentrated in the centre, at the expense of and... Read more »
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Sudan: Security Council Debates Crisis
Northern and Southern Sudan today [June 20] signed an agreement to pull their troops out of the disputed central Abyei region, scene of fierce fighting over the past few weeks,... Read more »
June 14, 2011
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Guinea Bissau: Drug Trade in Broader Context
"In Guinea-Bissau, drug trafficking ... is a consequence of the pre-existing lack of stability that allows smugglers to establish their networks in the region and operate to and... Read more »
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Africa: 'War On Drugs' Blowback Effects
Vast expenditures on criminalization and repressive measures directed at producers, traffickers and consumers of illegal drugs have clearly failed to effectively curtail supply or... Read more »
June 11, 2011
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Cote d'Ivoire: No War, But No Security
"Between May 13 and 25, Human Rights Watch interviewed 132 victims and witnesses to violence by both sides during the battle for Abidjan and in the weeks after Gbagbo's arrest.... Read more »
June 3, 2011
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Africa: Africa - "Aid" Promises And Accountability [analysis]
The G8 "accountability report" on increased aid spending "covers up $18 billion aid shortfall by ignoring inflation," headlined a Guardian article reporting critiques of the report... Read more »
May 30, 2011
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Africa: Cash Drain From Poorest Countries
The 48 countries classified by the United Nations as LDCs [Least Developed Countries], 33 of which are in Sub-Saharan Africa, lost a cumulative total of $246 billion in illicit... Read more »
May 17, 2011
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Africa: 'Game Changer' For Aids Research [analysis]
A new randomized study of AIDS treatment as prevention, beginning early treatment of infected heterosexual people who are living in partnership with an uninfected person, has shown... Read more »
May 16, 2011
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Eritrea: World Fails Refugees
"If refugee flows are a sign of political meltdown, then Eritrea is a level seven nuclear disaster. Figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees indicate that... Read more »
May 6, 2011
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Uganda: Protests in Perspective [analysis]
In February this year Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni told a press conference: "There will be no Egyptian-like revolution here. ... We would just lock them up. In the most humane... Read more »
April 28, 2011
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Africa: Senegal - Music to Fight Malaria [analysis]
Music may seem an unlikely way to fight malaria. But Senegal's highly successful program has relied not only on medical expertise but also on the star power of Youssou N'Dour and a... Read more »
April 25, 2011
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Libya: Migrants Situation Update
"So far, only about 2,800 out of a total of 500,000 people fleeing the violence in Libya have arrived in Europe. This is less than 0.6 percent of all cross-border movements. ...... Read more »
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