Countries with abundant natural resources – gold, diamonds, crude oil– often fail to transform that advantage into favourable development outcomes. This is known as the natural resource curse. Countries like Nigeria, Angola…
Every few years, it is devastating to watch the same tragedy: a weather cycle that brings debilitating drought and hunger to East Africa, threatening the lives and livelihoods of millions of people…
The evidence of child labour on cocoa farms in West Africa became public knowledge in the late 1990s. This followed press reports documenting the existence of hazardous child labour on cocoa farms.…
South Africans wish to see men and boys change their violent behaviour towards women and girls to stem the worsening tide of male violence against females in the country. There have been…
Studies have shown that terrorism does not end with only a military approach. A coercive counter-terrorism strategy has often produced negative outcomes by promoting more violence and creating humanitarian crisis. Non-military approaches…
Abdelaziz Bouteflika ruled Algeria with an iron fist for 20 years – from 1999 to 2019. He was a political figure, one of the initial architects of Algeria’s authoritarian political system in…
Can Radicalisation Be Defeated? Yes, If We Understand That It Happens When People’s Bonds Are Broken
Radical extremism has increased by 320% in the last five years and cost the world an estimated US$14.1 trillion as of 2018. It’s a worldwide problem. From the agitations of separatist movements…
The head of the World Bank has arrived in Sudan, from where he will give a virtual address to the annual meetings of the financial institution and the International Monetary Fund on…
A report into dealings by senior officials at South Africa’s health ministry during the coronavirus pandemic was made public Wednesday, revealing corruption, fraud and the misappropriation of millions of dollars meant to…
Theoneste Bagosora, a former Rwandan army colonel regarded as the architect of the 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsi and Hutus who tried to protect them were killed, died…
