Nov 30, 2022 | Featured, Ngā Ara Whetū, Politics & Society
By Oxfam East Africa – Kuay Makuach, farmer, Lankien, South Sudan, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Amelia Womack Warning: This article contains images of dead animals that some readers may find distressing After two weeks of fractious discussions, at the very...
Nov 9, 2021 | Politics & Society
Cameroon has seen increased violence and an ongoing civil war based on its linguistic, sectarian divide. Can the nation survive? How much is this a democracy deficiency and how much is this failure of leadership? How can Cameroon overcome its governance challenges?...
Jul 12, 2021 | Politics & Society
War has broken out in Northern Ethiopia in the Tigray region, and fighting continues despite a tentative ceasefire. What is the cause of this war? What are the implications for the nation and the region? Doug Becker speaks with Ann Fitz-Gerald, Aly Verjee, and...
Jun 22, 2021 | Politics & Society
Cameroon is a West African nation embroiled in a civil war between its Anglophone and Francophone populations. What led to this civil war? How can it be resolved? Doug Becker explores the causes of the war and the prospects for resolution with Patricia Asongwe and...
Jan 5, 2021 | Politics & Society
In November last year, a near three-decade-old ceasefire in the disputed region of Western Sahara was broken, and war resumed. This territory has been a tinderbox of conflict since Spain decolonised in 1975. What are the roots of this conflict? Why has conflict...
Nov 30, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Asafa Jalata At the core of the current war between the Ethiopian central government and the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front is the realignment of politics and the contest for political hegemony. In my view, it is about Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed allying with the...
Feb 4, 2020 | Business & Economics
By Ben Goldson Some of the world’s most powerful companies are being sued on behalf of child labourers either maimed or killed while mining for cobalt, bringing attention to the methods by which the valuable mineral is extracted for global consumption. In a historic...
Oct 3, 2018 | Politics & Society
By Jetson Leder-Luis Development aid is a potentially powerful tool for promoting economic growth among the world’s poor. However, development aid is plagued by corruption, as Jetson Leder-Luis explains. Development aid is a potentially powerful tool for promoting...
Jul 25, 2018 | Politics & Society
By David B. Moore David B. Moore previews the Zimbabwe general election as the African nation looks forward to life without Robert Mugabe. Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ruling Zanu-PF hope a credible victory in the July 30 election will legitimise...
Jul 19, 2018 | Politics & Society
By Paul Rogers Islamic State has survived 100,000 bombs and missiles and is still active, but why? Paul Rogers investigates. Shortly after the fall of the Syrian city of Raqqa in October 2017 – the centre of the Islamic State (IS) caliphate – US President Donald Trump...