Posted in African Politics, News on Sep 2nd, 2009
BBC NEWS | Africa | Nigerian ‘trained in Afghanistan’.
clipped from news.bbc.co.uk
Nigerian ‘trained in Afghanistan’
Abdulrasheed Abubakar was paraded by police to make his statement
A member of the Nigerian Islamist sect behind a deadly uprising in July has confessed to receiving military training in Afghanistan, police say.The member of the sect known locally as Boko Haram and [...]
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Posted in African Politics, News on Jul 16th, 2009
The Wall Street Journal (clip below), CNN and a number of other sources are reporting that at least 100 Africans were involved in protests over immigration enforcement in China. The spark was apparently the death of a Nigerian who was killed during an immigration raid.
China’s increasing ties with Africa is a subject that I am [...]
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Posted in African Politics, News on May 12th, 2009
An old Peace Corps friend posted this link on Facebook. It reminded me of the work I did as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana. In many parts of rural Africa it is still normal to have no access to a toilet or latrine, and it is still normal to get water from unsafe sources. [...]
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On Thursday, the minister for humanitarian assistance, Haroun Lual Ruun, said Khartoum would allow those UN agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) remaining in Darfur to “expand their existing operations”.
I think what we’re hearing… is that new NGOs with new names, new logos, if necessary, can come in
John Holmes UN humanitarian [...]
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Posted in African Politics, News on May 6th, 2009
So, Zuma has officially done it. He is President of South Africa. It will be interesting to see what impact he has. Will those who threatened to leave South Africa really leave? Will he be successful with his populist agenda?
I was able to meet him at a lunch at UC Berkeley a little over a [...]
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Posted in African Politics, General on May 4th, 2009
Not sure how I missed this story last week–though I’ve been quite busy between the normal end-of-the-semester routines, a Varieties of Democracy conference, celebrating my wife’s passing the CT bar, and preparing for a new baby…
Kenyan women call for sex boycott
By Parselelo Kantai in Nairobi
Published: May 1 2009 02:42 | Last updated: May 1 2009 [...]
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Posted in African Politics on Apr 9th, 2009
Bill Easterly has been spending some time in Ghana. In one post on his blog he extolls the virtues of the private sector at keeping lavatories clean. (However, Easterly does seem to fine some signs that aid can work in his visit to a Hunger Project site.) Apparently, a private firm — that also sells [...]
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Posted in African Politics, News on Apr 6th, 2009
The BBC reports that the liberation of Paris in 1944 was carefully orchestrated to be “whites only”. Apparently, this was an American idea. So when De Gaulle wanted to have a French division lead the liberation, he had to remove the West African soldiers (which reportedly formed 65% of Free French Forces) from the division [...]
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The G20 has a lot of issues on its plate and at the top of the list, obviously, is the on-going financial crisis. I have already commented on the problems African countries face in getting their voices heard. On that point, Africa may have an ally in Pope Benedict who, recently returned from his Africa [...]
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In my Africa in World Politics class this week, I’ve been talking about the role of African states in global economic governance. This has been a focus of my own research, stressing the important roles coalitions can play, but how those roles are strongly influenced by the institutional and strategic environments that states operate in. [...]
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