December 3

• Zimbabwe: The Underlying Cause of Zimbabwean Crisis [analysis]

  The underlying cause of the Zimbabwean crisis lies in the State's failure to initiate and sustain a growth process that is robust and inclusive. Read more »

• Africa: Just Do It - World Bank's 'Alternative' Development Model

  World Bank's much trumpeted 'alternative' model of growth - the utilisation of low-cost, skilled labour in the developing world for the export of IT and IT-enabled services to the... Read more »

• Africa: Unmasking Racist World Bank

  The bank's governance structure has denied Africa a voice for many decades, but utterly appalling is the deeply entrenched bias against black people in the World Bank's human... Read more »

• Africa: Is Brics the Latest Threat to the Continent?

  Like Berlin in 1884-85, the BRICS Durban summit is expected to carve up Africa more efficiently, unburdened - now as then - by what will be derided as 'Western' concerns about... Read more »

November 30

• Congo-Kinshasa: Britain and America Target DR Congo [analysis]

  What is happening in eastern DR Congo is not a civil war, but continuation of a 16-year aggression by the country's two neighbours, financed and directed by the United States and... Read more »

• Congo-Kinshasa: The Dilemma of the Wars in the Kivus [analysis]

  The world seems to be in a state of paralysis in dealing with the problems in the DRC in which Rwanda and Uganda continue to pillage and plunder the mineral resources of the... Read more »

November 23

• Somalia: Islamist Radicals Abusing Somaliland's Democracy [analysis]

  Having failed to forcibly impose a radical theocracy in Somaliland, militants have now turned to funding political parties to pursue their agenda. Read more »

• Liberia: Power of Words - Developing Culture of Reading Will Unlock Liberia's Consciousness [analysis]

  Reading unlocks the imagination, but it also unlocks the soul of a person. It has the potential to unlock the soul of a nation like Liberia struggling so desperately to find and... Read more »

• Africa: Africa? Obama Was Preoccupied With Too Many Other Things [opinion]

  Though Africa did not feature much in Obama's campaigns, it does not mean his administration has no interest in the continent of his father's birth. But that interest has little to... Read more »

• Namibia: Namibia - Bridging the Gap in Healthcare Provision

  The new health extension worker programme has been successfully implemented in several countries and its supporters are optimistic that it will help Namibia fill gaps in its... Read more »

• Africa: Who is Really in Charge of African Union? [analysis]

  Who funds the African Union? Africans can not champion their own solutions when they can't pay for them. Financing Africa's unification by outside sources endangers genuine... Read more »

• South Africa: Randela - Coining the Icon

  The new bank notes bring the legacy of Nelson Mandela full circle Read more »

• South Africa: ANC Lacks Internal Democracy [analysis]

  Democratic participation by the rank and file of the ANC in the December national leadership conference is a charade. A genuinely open system in which members are able to choose... Read more »

• Somalia: IGAD Strategy for Jubbaland Breaks Up Somalia [analysis]

  Designated a 'failed state' Somalia's problems lie partly in the geopolitical strategy of Somalia's neighbours for managing the liberated areas from Al Shabab, which... Read more »

• Africa: Liberal Capitalism, Crony Capitalism and Lumpen Development [analysis]

  Liberalism creates nothing, in the peripheries of the Global South that agree to submit to it, other than a crony capitalism based on a Comprador State in opposition to the... Read more »

• Africa: Hurricanes and Individualism - Lessons From Historic Sandy [opinion]

  Hurricane Sandy, coming fast and furious after the numerous storms of this century, is one more wake-up call for humans to retreat from the wrong headedness of private accumulation... Read more »

• Africa: The New Obama Doctrine - From Gaza to Goma [analysis]

  Obama's second term opens with the worst kind of display of US power - backing two clients, Rwanda and Israel, who are hell-bent on creating mayhem against their neighbours. UN... Read more »

• Congo-Kinshasa: The Tragedy of Goma [opinion]

  It is a big shame that UN peacekeepers could not protect the Congolese in Goma from the onslaught of Rwandan-backed rebels M23. Washington and London, Kagame's allies, have made... Read more »

November 18

• Africa: e-Learning Can Solve Human Resource Gap in Africa

  Only a tiny percentage of African students are admitted to university because of limited capacity at the institutions. Developments in computer technology can address this problem,... Read more »

• Malawi: Malawi - Illusions of Elite Entitlement [analysis]

  At the heart of the quota system debate is the incredibly small number of students who are admitted to Malawi's public universities. Malawi ranks bottom in the university-age... Read more »

• South Africa: The Politics of Human Dignity [analysis]

  Despite living in dehumanising conditions in their own country, the organised shack dwellers of South Africa find dignity in working together to resist their oppression. They build... Read more »

• Mozambique: Organising Domestic Workers in Mozambique

  There are at least 37,000 domestic workers in upper and working class suburbs of the Mozambican capital earning low wages and working long hours. Recent moves to include them in... Read more »

• Africa: Why Fighting Corruption Fails [analysis]

  Most well-intentioned corruption busting remedies in Africa fail because the root causes of corruption on the continent are often poorly understood. Read more »

• Nigeria: Power Privatisation Will Be a Disaster [analysis]

  Nigeria is handing over the country's strategic power sector to private investors ostensibly to improve service delivery. This is being done despite the glaring and costly failure... Read more »

November 16

• Libya: Failed Nato Mission Exposes U.S. Generals [opinion]

  The extramarital affair cited for the resignation of CIA chief Gen Petraeus is insignificant by far compared to his belonging to a section of US military and intelligence elite... Read more »