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121. The time for treating Burundi with kids’ gloves is over, AU must now swing into action

Size does not matter. Burundi, a small country in East Africa teetering on the brink of chaos, will, if ignored as it has so far been, almost inevitably create a major regional crisis with a heavy…

122. The Ethics of Refugee Repatriation

Around the world, refugees are often denied rights under the 1951 Convention for the Protection of Refugees. They cannot access work visas or social services, and some are forced into detention or…

123. How Burundi’s activist journalists fill a news void using Facebook and Whatsapp

Months after a coup attempt and street protests failed to prevent president Pierre Nkurunziza’s violent consolidation of power, news-starved Burundians rely on social media as a lifeline for news and…

124. A Social Science in Africa Fit for Purpose

Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, argues that African scholarship on Africa is operating at only a…

125. Elections are a sham, we only hold them because we love doing meaningless things

It’s official, it is not working, it just isn’t. It is this election thing that I’m talking about. It clearly is not working for us at all though, like the proverbial madman, we keep repeating the…

126. Africa internet access more important for Africa than net neutrality, which is a ‘first world’ problem

Kenyan Communications Minister and former Google Sub-Sahara Africa Lead, Joe Mucheru argues that focussing on net neutrality is “like saying someone has no food, but if someone brings them bread we…

127. AfDB Adesina’s bold call to Africa: 'bring down these walls, think, act – and deliver big'

On the weekend, African Development Bank (AfDB) president Akinwumi Adesina, gave the a keynote address at the Africa 2016 Forum held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. At the conference, dubbed Business for…

128. Violence and War, Africa's twin evils

It seemed as though Africa was set to embrace meaningful transformation. But perhaps we were all too busy approving frameworks and strategies centred on the need for real structural transformation to…

129. Growing statesmanship: Africa passing through testing times

The African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance must come into full enforcement to prohibit, reject and condemn unconstitutional change of government across Africa in line with Article 2…

130. Unemployment makes terrorist groups appealing to Dar youth

Religious radicalisation is on the rise in Tanzania, two studies have revealed. The Head of Tanzania Defence Intelligence Maj-Gen Venance Mabeyo said that the youth joining radical groups in the…