Africa Politics Business 27 March 2018 By Landry Signé Africa’s FTA offers so much promise African leaders have just signed a framework establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area, the largest free trade agreement since the creation of the World Trade The free trade area aims to create a single...
Africa Digital 27 March 2018 By Gabrielle Lynch & Justin Willis & Nic Cheeseman Cambridge Analytica's sticky paws in Africa Election manipulation is a hot story. In recent days, Cambridge Analytica, which claims to use data to change behaviour including that of voters, has been accused of breaching Facebook rules in its efforts to collect...
Africa Politics 27 March 2018 By Greg Mills & Jeffrey Herbst Can new leadership change Africa's fortunes? Over the last few months, something extraordinary has happened in Southern Africa: Three new leaders - Cyril Ramaphosa in South Africa, Emmerson Mnangagwa in Zimbabwe, and João Lourenço in Angola – armed with reformist agendas...
Africa Politics Business Politics 26 March 2018 By John Fraser No African free trade in my lifetime: Davies The African Continental Free Trade Agreement which was recently hailed by the continent’s leaders in Kigali is like a Swiss cheese - full of holes. This was revealed on Monday by Trade and Industry Minister Rob...
Africa 23 March 2018 By Greg Mills & Jaco-Louis Du Plessis Somaliland: Democracy to prosperity “I’ll give you 15 camels,” said Caqil Tayib, a big grin on his face. The “offer” by the camel trader was for the chief protocol officer of Somaliland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. We managed to...
Digital 23 March 2018 By Michael Wade How Cambridge Analytica knew voters’ minds The dealings that have been revealed between Cambridge Analytica and Facebook have all the trappings of a Hollywood thriller: a Bond villain-style CEO, a reclusive billionaire, a naïve and conflicted whistle-blower, a hipster data scientist...
Africa Economics Politics 22 March 2018 By John Fraser African currency dream will be a nightmare I was On that grey Brussels New Year’s Day - January the 1st 1999 - when they launched the Euro, I was at that grey Brussels building when the Finance Ministers of Europe agreed on...
Africa Economics 22 March 2018 By Tshepo T. Gwatiwa & Michael Noel Sam How free movement of people could benefit Africa The African Union (AU) has adopted a Free Movement Protocol and a draft plan of action to go with it. The idea was first set out in the Abuja Treaty, which was endorsed in 1991...
Africa 22 March 2018 By Francois Deacon Giraffes: their survival as a species There are fewer than 80,000 giraffes left in the wild and some subspecies of giraffes are close to extinction. Giraffes are endemic to Africa and all those found elsewhere in the world originate from the...
Africa Water 22 February 2018 By Ellis Adjei Adams African city people taking charge of water The world has made tremendous progress in bridging the gap between water supply and demand. But there’s a long way still to go. In a 2017 joint monitoring report UNICEF and the World Health Organisation...
Africa Lifestyle Health 19 February 2018 By Justin Lessler & Andrew Azman & Benjamin Zaitchik & Sean Moore El Niño forecasts can prevent cholera deaths Since it first emerged from the Ganges River delta 200 years ago, cholera has killed tens of millions of people around the world. It causes acute diarrhea that can kill quickly without proper treatment. Before...
Africa Politics 18 February 2018 By Gift Mwonzora Morgan Tsvangirai’s party in disarray The absence of a party leader and a clear succession path often leads to political parties losing political direction. This is exemplified by Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) led by...
Africa BREXIT Brics Politics 18 February 2018 By Peter Vale Cyril needs to fix SA’s foreign relations When President Cyril Ramaphosa sits down to brief a newly appointed Minister of International Relations and Development, he might wonder what to Here are three suggestions which could help guide the Strengthen diplomatic Extensive evidence...
Africa 15 February 2018 By Luisa Enria Oxfam must survive the scandal Revelations that Oxfam workers paid for prostitutes in Haiti as the organisation was supporting survivors of the earthquake in 2011, have reopened a longstanding debate about foreign aid in the Penny Mordaunt, the international development...
Africa Politics 15 February 2018 By David B. Moore Zimbabwe’s Morgan Tsvangirai: Heroic herald Morgan Tsvangirai, who was born March 10 1952 in Buhera, in Manicaland just across the border from Zimbabwe’s Gutu District in Masvingo, became leader of Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change in September He was a...
Africa Politics 15 February 2018 By Willie Chinyamurindi Tsvangirai dared Zimbabweans to dream again One never forgets their first job. For me it was not the work experience that left an indelible impression, though it was appreciated. It was that one day at work when all seems to be...
Africa Lifestyle Education 13 February 2018 By H. Ekkehard Wolff Unlocking the language potential of Africans Africa is the home of 2144 languages. Oddly, most development theoreticians consider this a barrier to economic and social growth. Sociolinguists and educationists know better: The African continent’s multilingualism is a powerful The problem begins...
Africa 12 February 2018 By Keith Somerville Rhino poaching: Corruption hinders progress The number of rhinos poached in South Africa in 2017 was lower than 2016’s, according to South African Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa. Last year, 1028 rhinos were killed compared to 1054...
Africa Lifestyle Education 12 February 2018 By Ndoni Mcunu Patriarchy bars black women in science Nine years into my research and academic career, one of the most common questions I hear from family and friends is, “uzoqedanini ukufunda?” (“Will she ever finish They’re not the only ones who struggle to...
Africa Lifestyle Health 09 February 2018 By Andreas Hougaard Laustsen & Timothy Patrick Jenkins Pushing for an effective anti-venom For city dwellers, especially those in the developed world, the idea of being bitten by a venomous snake seems outlandish. But it is a daily and very real risk for millions around the world –...
