In On Africa IOA
The terrorist threat to energy infrastructure in North Africa
27th May 2014 Secure energy supplies play a crucial role in the world economy and are essential to fuel the development of contemporary society. North Africa is... →
Apartheid’s violent legacy: Police brutality in South Africa
23rd May 2014 In recent years, the South African Police Service (SAPS) has come under the spotlight due to the increasing number of incidents in which civilians... →
Corruption in Africa: Implications for development
22nd May 2014 Although corruption is a global phenomenon, it is more rampant and visible in many Sub-Saharan African countries than on any other continent.... →
Working together: The role of labour law harmonisation in improving the living standards of the poor in a globalised Africa
19th May 2014 More than ever before, many foreign firms have broadened their geographical boundaries through investments in Africa, and the flow of foreign... →
Attacking all fronts: Sudan’s terror campaign in the peripheries
14th May 2014 South of the Syrian Civil War and the ongoing Egyptian political crisis, is the smouldering yet often overlooked war in Sudan. Conflict has defined... →
Uranium is the next resource boom in Africa, courtesy of the new Cold War
13th May 2014 Escalating tensions between Russia and the West over the former’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region may not lead to another Cold War – which... →
HIV is not the problem: Youth sex poll shows that hope trumps hardship
8th May 2014 South Africa is home to the world’s HIV/AIDS epidemic. Mid-year population estimates published by Statistics South Africa showed an increased rate... →
Is there a Crimea scenario in Africa?
2nd May 2014 As Russia annexes Crimean territory, some African lands are vulnerable to ambitious big neighbours who might use ethnicity as an excuse for land... →
Double target: Being a woman with HIV/AIDS in Liberia
29th April 2014 This paper discusses the situation of women with HIV/AIDS living in Liberia. It provides a short overview of the reasons why Liberian women... →
New kid on the block: Doing business in South Sudan
23rd April 2014 After almost five decades of war and armed conflict, South Sudan achieved its independence from the Republic of Sudan in July 2011, making it the... →
Knowing is not enough: Corporate social responsibility and empowerment in the Zambia Copperbelt
17th April 2014 Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has recently become prominent in the international development agenda. Corporations and current international... →
Hypocrisies and contradictions: Western aid and LGBT rights in Africa
15th April 2014 On 24 February 2014, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda signed into law a bill that tightened already harsh anti-homosexuality legislation. There... →
China’s role in Africa’s conflicts: Military cooperation, arms transfers and involvement in peacekeeping operations
14th April 2014 The growing presence and influence of China in international politics seems to be particularly evident in Africa. The relationship between China... →
Europe-Africa relations: Amani Africa and the EU Training Missions
9th April 2014 In July 2003, at a crucial summit in Maputo, Mozambique, African Union (AU) leaders reached a compromise on a document known as the Protocol... →
Worker health hazards and proliferation risks of radioactive material smuggling and diversion in Africa’s ports, borders and shipping industry
8th April 2014 Despite increasing volumes of international cargo passing through African ports, most African ports and borders are inadequately equipped with... →
Food sovereignty: A prerequisite for Africa’s food security and sustainability in a warming climate
7th April 2014 Globally, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is the region with the highest rate of food insecurity,(2) accounting for one out of every four undernourished... →
Shifting power in Abuja affects, and is affected, by Nigeria’s security outlook: Pre-election politics has turned violent and divisive
3rd April 2014 Nigeria is set to hold presidential elections in 2015. These elections are likely to be heavily contested, as evidenced by the recent, temporary... →
New piracy threats and the peril of flags of convenience: Southern Africa’s first ship hijacking highlights the risks to security of foreign-registered ships
2nd April 2014 The pirating of a Greek-owned tanker, the Kerala, in Angolan waters on 18 January 2014, might have been a probe to see if such an operation could... →
Foreign investors and the performance of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange in the multicurrency period
25th March 2014 A country’s economic growth is usually associated with growth in its capital markets and its ability to attract capital from abroad. International... →
A kingdom divided: The fragility of the PDP’s political hegemony in Nigeria
24th March 2014 The 2015 general election in Nigeria promises to be quite intriguing, as the events that are unfolding within Nigerian political parties have been... →
Innovation, priority infrastructure and foreign aid: Will the East African Community follow the East Asian development trajectory or its own?
18th March 2014 Following the process of re-integration in 1993 and 1997, aimed at deepening “tripartite programmes of cooperation in economic, social and cultural... →
Kenya's war against Al-Shabab: An internal/external affair
12th March 2014 The Kenyan Government's struggle against the Al-Shabab terrorist organisation has been an explosive transnational contest. Responding to... →
Rainbow Nation? De jure versus de facto LGBT rights in South Africa
11th March 2014 South Africa’s post-apartheid constitution has been lauded as revolutionary in Africa, and indeed the world over, chiefly for the manner in which... →
Cheap Chinese imports in Africa: Implications and remedies
6th March 2014 The negative effects of the trade relationship between China and Africa, particularly its balance of economic power in the former’s favour, have... →
The terror-crime nexus in West Africa: Relevance and effects
4th March 2014 This paper discusses the relevance of the relations between terrorist and criminal groups in West Africa. In the last two decades, West Africa has... →
Big brother is watching: Doing business in Africa in the shadow of the UK’s anti-bribery law
3rd March 2014 The United Kingdom’s (UK) Bribery Act of 2010, which came into force in July 2011, is at the forefront of recent global changes to the legal... →
Elections and leadership changes: How do political leaders take (and leave) power in Africa?
27th February 2014 In the 2012 Senegalese election, opposition leader Macky Sall defeated incumbent president Abdoulaye Wade and duly replaced him as the country’s... →
Nuclear non-proliferation education and training in Africa: An imperative for African security and participation in the global nuclear dialogue
24th February 2014 South Africa and indeed Africa’s role in, and risk to, global nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear security remains largely overshadowed globally... →
Increased agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa through gender empowerment: An impossible dream?
20th February 2014 Although rapidly urbanising, 63% of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) still live in rural areas, with 80-90% of the population engaged in... →
Moving beyond behaviour change in HIV/AIDS prevention and management
18th February 2014 HIV/AIDS continues to be one of the world’s greatest challenges because of the associated wide scale loss of life, declining life expectancy,... →
External assistance in African insurgencies
17th February 2014 African insurgencies are unique in that they traditionally follow many different ideological, political and ethnic trends. In order to achieve... →
Economic empowerment and foreign direct investment: The cases of Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe
13th February 2014 The colonisation by the United Kingdom of many African countries in the late 1890s and early 1900s resulted in the redistribution of wealth in... →
Rotation and zoning: Extra-constitutional frameworks for Nigeria’s political stability
6th February 2014 After over a decade of return to democracy, Nigeria’s federal system has been resilient to some of the political tensions that would have otherwise... →
Gender 'men-streaming' in the global response to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
4th February 2014 The explicit inclusion of men’s issues as gender issues in the development agenda, or ‘men-streaming’ development,(2) has represented a major... →
Egypt and Libya find common security ground: An alliance against al-Qaeda
3rd February 2014 Al-Qaeda was active and dangerous in North Africa during the closing months of 2013. An Egypt-based al-Qaeda affiliate group, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis,... →
A fading democratic star: The role of Islamism in Mali and the dangers of totalising narratives
31st January 2014 “Neat lines of demarcation rarely, if ever, exist between one area of the world and the next”(2) Eamonn Gearon, author of The Sahara: A Cultural... →
Cooperation through education: Bridging differences with the Chinese Government scholarship programme
27th January 2014 China’s extensive engagement with the African continent has been widely acknowledged and emphasised by scholars and politicians globally. The main... →
Peacekeeping and corruption discussions in an African context
22nd January 2014 On 9 October 2013, Transparency International (TI) launched a report, Corruption and Peacekeeping: Strengthening Peacekeeping and the United... →
COP-outs, walk-outs and possibility: Africa’s opportunities for climate change preparedness
21st January 2014 On 23 November 2013, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) nineteenth annual Conference of the Parties (COP 19)... →
Duverger’s law and its relevance to West Africa
17th January 2014 Writing in the 1950s and 1960s, the French political sociologist, Maurice Duverger, identified a correlation in the electoral systems of European... →
Confucius who?
13th January 2014 In 2010 a team of African and Chinese archaeologists discovered a fifteenth century Ming Dynasty coin. The coin was nondescript, a remnant of Ming... →
