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The return of South Sudan’s opposition leader
is likely to solidify the permanent ceasefire.
South Sudan faces numerous and serious challenges contributing to instability. But there are potential solutions.
Unrealistic expectations about what commissions can achieve comes from the fact that they’re often confused with courts of law.
Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis must be addressed by the president within the first hundred days.
Polls indicate that South Africans are unlikely to totally abandon the African National Congress.
For black South Africans, the hard lesson was the same as it had been during the Boer war: support for Britain would bring few rewards.
The threat to use force to defend Egypt’s right to water from the Nile has been a common theme through successive governments.
Poor supervision, poor training, and unfair treatment of lower-ranked officers make misconduct more likely to happen among Ghana’s police force.
South African voters are worried about how their country is being run. Most still support the ANC but in far fewer numbers.
The question of land has been hotly contested in Namibia ever since independence.
As South Africa became an international pariah, it began working in shady ways through even more shady operators, including getting arms from the Soviet Union and China.
Trokosi is an ancient practice in West Africa where virgin girls, some as young as six are sent as slaves to make amends for wrongs committed by their families.
Throughout the entire period, central political power has been almost absolute.
Weary Kenyans are entitled to wonder if the latest referendum push will be any different from the past two.
Jair Bolsonaro has very rightwing views likely to put a final nail in the coffin off Brazil’s Africa moment spearheaded by former president Lula da Silva.
Political and editorial cartoons are a key indicator of the democratic health of a country - but they can also be regressive.
The sympathetic take on Pik Botha as a man of peace and a frustrated democrat is a travesty.
Widespread concerns about the levels of immigration in South Africa make the issue appeal to voters across the economic and racial spectrum.
The rental housing market in Nairobi’s informal settlements offers its tenant households a perverse market outcome of higher prices for lower quality products
South African editors and journalists failed in their ethical contract with society.
South Africans have a right to know why the lapses at Sunday Times occurred and why those that spoke up against them were silenced.
Study suggests that the UN’s own principles sometimes prevented it from living up to its objectives
The global poverty plot is thicker than what the World Bank would have us believe.
Pik Botha defended apartheid and South Africa’s occupation of Namibia, but in the end helped end both.