The recent popular revolution in Burkina Faso and the resignation of President Blaise Compaoré has emerged as a ‘warning alarm’ to African tyrants who are bent on eternalising themselves in power.
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A new report, ‘Going Offshore’, has found that as of the end of 2013, a massive 118 out of 157 fund investments made by the CDC Group Plc – the UK’s DFI – went through jurisdictions that feature in the top 20 of Tax Justice Network’s Financial Secrecy Index (FSI).
Tagged under GovernanceHaving just experienced its fifth general election since the establishment of a multiparty democratic system in 1992, Mozambique voted for a president and elected members to the national and provincial parliaments on 15 October 2014.
Tagged under Governance MozambiqueDo the rich and poor eat the same? Do our incomes determine our diet? Today, who is overweight?
Tagged under GovernanceRather than enhance the newly-created institutions which facilitated his march to the presidency, Ernest Koroma is actually destroying the country’s newborn democracy, thanks to his proclivity for acting like the president of a one-party dictatorship.
Tagged under Governance Sierra LeoneIt is easy to dismiss Moses Kuria.
Tagged under GovernanceThose following South Sudan’s political developments in the news will likely have become aware in recent weeks of a controversial new bill relating to the National Security Service (NSS).
Tagged under Governance South SudanEastern African politicians and bureaucrats owe their citizens at least one thing this decade: to prioritize and fast track the formation of the East African Community. They killed it in 1977; they shouldn’t take another generation to revive it. Why?
Tagged under GovernanceFormer Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s incipient plan to “smash Cuba” in response to Fidel Castro sending soldiers in 1975 to support Angola’s liberation struggle has recently been documented (‘Back Channel to Cuba’, a book by Peter Kornbluh and William LeoGrande) and drawn comment on indepe
Tagged under Governance AngolaDuring a visit to Kenya in July, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque, urged the Kenyan government to help realize Kenyans’ constitutional rights to water and sanitation by adopting the country’s pending water
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