South-South Peacebuilding: Lessons and Insights from Turkey and South Africa’s Support to Fragile States
Emerging actors, such as providers of South-South cooperation (SSC), are increasingly playing a role in peacebuilding, particularly in fragile states and conflict-affected areas.
South-South Cooperation and Peacebuilding: Turkey’s Involvement in Somalia
Turkey has become one of Somalia’s most important partners, providing humanitarian and development aid, military training and private investment.
The ‘fourth industrial revolution’: potential and risks for Africa
Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, argues that the single most important challenge facing humanity today is how to understand and shape the new technology revolution. What exactly is this revolution, and why does it matter, especially for Africa?
France in the Indian Ocean: A Geopolitical Perspective and its Implications for Africa
The world’s oceans have been brought back into focus in recent years, and attempts to capture a growing share of the oceans’ value will lead into a rekindling of old ties and a shaping of new ‘blue’ partnerships.
Civil Society’s Role in Shaping Zimbabwe’s Diamond Governance
Zimbabwe confirmed that alluvial diamonds had been discovered in the Marange area in Mutare District in 2006. However, as in many other African countries, the promise diamond mining holds for economic growth has been eroded by a lack of transparency and accountability.
Balancing Coal Mining and Conservation in South-West Ethiopia
With conflicting interests in an area of high biodiversity, Ethiopia now faces pressure from competing uses of forestland.
My brother’s keeper
A prominent thread in the conversation about Africa’s development since the end of the Cold War has been the need for good governance.
Lessons From Rwanda: Female Political Representation and Women’s Rights
Gender equality is a basic human right that entails equal opportunities for men and women in all facets of life: socially, economically, developmentally and politically.
Rethinking Infrastructure in Africa: A Governance Approach
Infrastructure deficits have long been recognised as being central to Africa’s developmental malaise.
Fighting base erosion and profit shifting in Africa: A review of country-by-country reporting
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) can shift profits away from jurisdictions with comparatively high tax rates to jurisdictions with lower to no tax rates, and thus avoid paying their fair share of taxes without breaking any single jurisdiction’s laws.