Dive into the archives.
- Tuareg Rebellion
For our readers out there who’ve read Robert Kaplan’s latest books, the Tuareg Rebellion in Mali and Niger isn’t wholly unknown. Adrian over at Politics & Soccer is a masters student in Security Studies and is researching it for his thesis. If any of our readers have expertise to offer, he would surely appreciate it.
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- The Chavez of South Africa
UPDATE: As predicted by all, Zuma wins.
ORIGINAL POST: South African President Thabo Mbeki appears disgusting in the West. He has supported Zimbabwe’s Mugabe without apology, and over the years has made a number of conspiratorial comments on the origins and nature of AIDS. Even so, in the spectrum of South African politicians, he [...]
- DESERTEC
Nature magazine has a fascinating article on meeting the power needs of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa with an ambitious network of renewable energies across the region titled “DESERTEC.” In a word, the Sahara Desert would be peppered with with solar thermal power plants and transmitted through massive grids, in addition to other [...]
- “The World’s Stupidest War”
Ethan at MHIA West Africa blog has a great post on the possible flaring up once again of the Eritrea-Ethiopia border war between two states over several miles of territory. The lengthy post is worth reading in its entirety, but in summary:
It’s probably instinctive to ask “Who are the good guys?” when contemplating international [...]
- The Human Cost of War
This photo of a Rwandan woman embracing the daughter born from rape during the Rwandan genocide in 1994 has won the National Portrait Gallery’s annual photographic prize.
The above picture of Joseline Ingabire, a Tutsi, embracing her second daughter Leah Batamuliza, was taken by photographer Jonathan Torgovnik as part of a series documenting the lives of [...]
- This is Zimbabwe
One of the newer entries to the “Regional Specialists” category of our blogroll is This is Zimbabwe, a blog by Sokwanele, a democratic civic movement in Zimbabwe. Their daily posts are real and dirty glimpses as to how life is in a country where the most recent monthly inflation figures were over 25,000%. [...]
- From Yemen to Djibouti via Bin Laden
Recently, we along with many others have been discussing the new African Command (AfriCom) of the US military. It’s temporary quarters is here in Stuttgart, Germany. Yet, a rather interesting geopolitical development could be threatening its mission, namely a bridge linking Yemen and Djibouti.
Where the Red Sea meets the Gulf of Aden, a mere 17 [...]
- To the ends of the earth
Who here knew that the US had military activity in Mali?
Gunmen fire on US plane
Bamako – Gunmen hit a United States military cargo plane flying food to Malian troops fighting rebels in the far north of the country, say officials. No one was injured in the attack and the plane, which had minor damage, landed [...]
- In Defense of Afro-Pessimism
This article from the World Policy Journal, published almost ten years ago by David Rieff, reads somewhat like Kaplan’s writings on Africa from Coming Anarchy, and was unfortunately eerily correct about the following decade in Africa.
In Defense of Afro-Pessimism
David RieffIt has been almost 40 years since the decolonization of sub Saharan Africa began in earnest, [...]
- “Keep up the great work!”
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit closing Friday in South Africa had nothing but warm words for President Mugabe in the political, economic, and financial crisis in Zimbabwe. The summit welcomed the mediation efforts of President Thabo Mbeki of South African between Mugabe and the opposition, and had these words:
The summit welcomed the [...]
