Despite Brexit, Brits have become more positive about immigration
Aamna Mohdin With less than a year to go until Brexit happens, there’s little evidence to suggest that voters have changed their minds about the referendum. But […]
Politics
African Land Forces Summit Holds In Abuja
Military top brass from across Africa on Monday kicked off a conference co-hosted by the United States aimed at boosting cooperation between countries fighting […]
Gender Quotas in Africa: Does Higher Representation of Women Result in Their Empowerment?
Gender Quotas in Africa: Does Higher Representation of Women Result in Their Empowerment? Sangwon Park, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh It […]
Zimbabwe unveils post-Mugabe economic order
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe’s government, under newly inaugurated President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has announced “a new economic order” that signals a potentially significant change from the previous […]
A clear, present danger: Zanu PF strategy to rule forever
A NEW era has dawned in Zimbabwe . . . or has it? In recent weeks, to popular acclamation and adulation, Zanu PF and the […]
Kenya opposition group says protest mock inaugural ceremony postponed
Nairobi – Kenya’s main opposition group on Sunday postponed a mock ceremony to inaugurate its leader as president. Opposition leader Raila Odinga and his colleagues […]
The Gambia: Yahya Jammeh’s exit from power, another step forward for Africa’s democratic maturity?
On the 21st of January, 2017, 22 years after he seized power in a coup, The Gambia’s ex-president, Yahya Jammeh, flew out of Gambia into […]
The Burundian Dilemma
Burundi’s economy is indisputably flailing. What are the root causes, and can the seemingly inevitable decline be prevented? By: John Wawer In 2016, the economic […]
Big Guns v Small Boats: Britain’s suggestion for targeted destruction of traffickers’ boats at source appears simply another case of knee jerk reaction by the UK Government
Some EU governments’ proposal for resolving the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean have been premised thus far, on the imperative to keep migrants away from […]
Experts weigh Brexit’s implications for Africa
Some experts consider that “Brexit” could have adverse impacts on African economies, in terms of the type of preference schemes the UK may grant, knock-on trade […]