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141. How severe is Africa’s Brain Drain?

A country’s true strength is its people. To Africa’s dismay, the continent continues to suffer a brain drain where the highly educated and skilled leave for greener pastures. LSE’s Scott Firsing…

142. Big Men revert to the old ways as hopes for democracy are set back in Africa

When then-President Bill Clinton visited Africa in 1998, he praised “a new generation of leaders” as champions of a dawning “African Renaissance.” Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni was one of them: Two years…

143. Special Challenges Eritrean Refugees Face in Europe

Questions have been raised about the legitimacy of Eritrean asylum seekers as Europe tries to find a pretext to rid itself of Eritreans. An example of such an effort is the sponsorship of a…

144. Are election observer reports worth the paper they’re written on?

Election observers from the East African Community and elsewhere in the world are already trooping into Kampala. President Yoweri Museveni will be seeking a further five-year term in the coming…

145. Migrants and the ‘business’ of the boat journey from Libya to Europe

In migrants’ daily life in Libya, they were often exposed to various forms of violence by different actors – militias, security forces, criminal gangs – and to arbitrary arrest and detention, often…

146. Burundi: what can actually be done?

The violence in Burundi is evolving and getting worse. Challenges to President Pierre Nkurunziza’s rule are becoming professionalised, as demonstrated by the attacks on two military camps in…

147. Burundi rebels say trained by Rwandan military - U.N. experts

A confidential report to the United Nations Security Council accuses Rwanda of recruiting and training Burundian refugees with the goal of ousting Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza.

148. Philanthropists shouldn’t shape our national agenda

Mr William Henry Gates III (better known as Bill Gates), the American tycoon, has struck again. On January 22, he informed the Wall Street Journal that Kenya had legalised the cultivation of…

149. Tough rules to limit envoys’ movements

Foreign missions and international organisations will now have to seek government clearance for all their planned activities, including who and when they meet leaders of various political parties.

150. MIGRO ERGO SUM – I Migrate, Therefore I Am – Social Pressure as a Driver of Economic Migration from West Africa

Migration is a business which represents millions of dollars in revenue circulating in the informal economies of countries along select routes. Migrants claim that in order to cross the Agadez region…