By John Davies. Abject poverty and official corruption make parts of Africa a very attractive destination for terrorist organizations. Opportunities…
Browsing: Current Affairs
The mid-air explosion of Russian flight 9268 over the Sinai Peninsula this month brings once again to the fore…
By Alex Perry. Reviewed by Peter Collins. The Search for Boko Haram is compelling and unsentimental in its deconstruction of…
In May 2000, The Economist magazine declared that Africa was “the hopeless continent.” Eleven years later, in 2011, it referred…
Michael Weiss. Reviewed by Steven Negus. A masked militant with a drawn knife, preparing to slaughter a helpless captive: This…
Daniel Resnick And Nicolas van de Walle. Development scholars and public policy advisors who focus on the effectiveness of foreign…
CONFERMENT OF AWARDS. PAN AFRICAN HUMANITARIAN AWARDS 2015. Prof. John Ifediora, Director/ Editor in Chief, Council on African Security and…
Martin Ravallion. There is growing support in the rich world for a basic-income guarantee (BIG), in which the government would…
Michael Bratton and Robert Mattes. Reviewed By Devra Moehler. Observers of sub-Saharan Africa are sharply divided over the consequences of…
In a special report on how Nigeria’s elites and public officials mismanaged the country’s oil revenue, Tim Cocks and Joe…