African Arguments (London)
A multi-blogging site that covers both contemporary events and develops debates on themes important to the continent.
Website: http://africanarguments.org
July 09
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Africa: Checking the Africa Facts [analysis]
What’s the most important question in a journalist’s armoury? Read more »
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Somalia: British Bank Threatens Peace Efforts [analysis]
A recent decision by Barclays Bank to close the accounts of 250 money transfer organisations working around the world will have a particularly severe effect on Somalia's efforts to... Read more »
July 08
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Africa: Review - Britain and Africa Under Blair: in Pursuit of the Good State - Reviewed By Chris Mullin [analysis]
Britain and Africa Under Blair by Julia Gallagher, Manchester University Press, pp 162. Read more »
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Tunisia: Why Tunisia Is Not Egypt [analysis]
Following recent events in Egypt, in Tunisia there have been some calls, mostly from minor opposition groups and individuals, to rebel against the country's governing Troika. Many... Read more »
July 05
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Africa: UN Experts Examine Eastern Congo Strife [analysis]
The Mid-Term Report of the sometimes controversial UN Group of Experts focuses on the major events of the conflict in eastern Congo since the beginning of the year. Read more »
July 04
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Congo-Kinshasa: Huge Dam Project Faces Challenging Schedule [analysis]
Within slightly more than two years, construction work for a third dam and hydropower station should start at the Inga falls on the Congo river in the Bas-Congo province, about 230... Read more »
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Africa: Private Equity - Bringing Development Capital to Africa? [analysis]
Africa's private equity industry has been gaining ground. Last year, despite difficult global economic circumstances, deal value reached $1.1bn with East Africa taking the lion's... Read more »
July 03
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Kenya: Nation's Misbehavior in Kismayo and Consequences of Disrespecting the Amisom Mandate [analysis]
Currently Kenya has about 4,000 soldiers deployed as part of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), a peacekeeping force mandated by the United Nations Security Council to... Read more »
July 02
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Somalia: Al-Shabaab 'Coup' May Fragment Militants [analysis]
The week of June 19th was a bloody milestone for the course of jihad in Somalia as the leaders of Al-Shabaab clashed in Barawe, a coastal city in the south. That conflict led to... Read more »
July 01
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Africa: African Energy Scene is 'Dynamic' [analysis]
Cross Border Information’s African Energy Atlas 2013 has just come out. What does is tell us about the continent’s energy reserves, production and future prospects? Read more »
June 30
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Africa: Obama Can Only Light Up Africa With Its Own 'Leading Lights' [analysis]
On the fourth day of President Obama's 6-day Africa tour, his aides say that he is scheduled to announce in Cape Town, South Africa, a new US plan to advance the electrification of... Read more »
June 28
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Somalia: Militants Will Continue Despite Leader's Surrender [analysis]
Finally, the fate of Hassan Dahir Aweys - Somalia's foremost Islamist - has been determined. While details of the operation that led to his apprehension are unclear, he appears to... Read more »
June 27
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Congo-Kinshasa: Why Herbst and Mills Are Wrong About Congo's "Invisible State" [analysis]
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a failed state/The Democratic Republic of the Congo is falling apart/The Democratic Republic of the Congo does not exist. Read more »
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Africa: Why Structural Transformation of Africa Matters in Post-2015 Era [analysis]
In September 2000, the UN Millennium Summit endorsed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the Millennium Declaration, which was signed by more than 180 countries. Read more »
June 26
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Uganda: Is Uganda's Oil Region Another Northern Uganda in the Making? [analysis]
A recent workshop on "the politics of oil and gas in East Africa" run by Makerere (Uganda) and Leeds (UK) universities, following a research visit to Uganda's Hoima District, has... Read more »
June 25
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Africa: Kismayo and the Rise and Fall of a Somali President [analysis]
Something very bizarre is happening in Somalia. While Al-Shabaab is still active and wreaking havoc on the country, Somalis are again dividing themselves along clan lines, this... Read more »
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Africa: Your Rendezvous With the African Middle Class [analysis]
If you are in business and Africa has been on your radar I am very sure it is partly because of boiling enthusiasm about the "African Middle Class" and how they are dying to buy... Read more »
June 24
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Africa: The False God of 0.7 - Understanding the Aid Business [analysis]
The debate about the UK aid programme has been heating up over the last few months. There is general agreement that we should respond to humanitarian disasters, such as famine or... Read more »
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Africa: Offshore Centres, Financial Justice and Multinational Business [analysis]
This is the third edition of our Africa Business Briefing, which is published monthly, with business and economics news on the world's fastest changing continent. To find out more... Read more »
June 21
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Somalia: The Cost of Ignoring the Kismayo Crisis [analysis]
Though often caricatured as a violent failed state, over the last year Somalia has reached a state of relative calm. Despite this week's heinous bombing of a UN compound in... Read more »
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Africa: Africa's 'Rise' Precarious Whilst Investors Still Consider Safer Destinations [analysis]
The G8 ended their two-day meet this week with a set of fairly flimsy bullet points on the issue of corporate taxation, at least as concerns the reported mass outflows lost by... Read more »
June 20
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Libya: National Oil Company's Relocation Raises Questions [analysis]
The Libyan government's decision to relocate the headquarters of National Oil Corporation (NOC) from Tripoli to Benghazi raises more questions than it answers. These include when... Read more »
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Africa: Mali - 3 New Briefings From African Affairs [analysis]
The crisis in Mali has received considerable media attention, but due to the turnaround in academic publishing far less scholarly analysis is available. Read more »
June 19
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Africa: Memo to the Srf - Try Not to Kill Any More Ethiopian Peacekeepers [analysis]
If you fight for or sympathise with the SPLM-North and the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), you might argue almost any place in South Kordofan is a legitimate military target,... Read more »
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Africa: AU Chair Complains of Timing of Tax Discussions at G8 Summit
Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union, congratulated G8 countries for taking issues of tax and transparency seriously, particularly with reference to African... Read more »
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