Analysis of China’s relations with Africa has often been generalised, yet these relations vary considerably across the continent, suggesting the need for greater attention to the specificities of each case.
This paper proposes to analyse China’s growing engagement in Africa’s mineral sector and assess its impact on local governance.
Climate change, in part a result of rising greenhouse gas emissions, is seen as the most pressing environmental problem of our time.
What a difference five months makes in the fortunes of our turbulent global economy.
Speech by the National Director of the South African Institute of International Affairs, Ms Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, on the occasion of the banquet celebrating the institute’s 75th anniversary. 16 September 2009
A number of studies suggest that natural resources can have a negative impact on countries’ development prospects.
Promoting peace and security in Africa is one of the goals of the EU-South Africa strategic partnership.
The Gabonese Minister of Interior’s announcement that Ali-Ben Bongo Ondimba, candidate for the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) and son of Gabon’s late President Omar Bongo, has won the 30 August presidential election came as no surprise to many Gabonese and observers of the country’s politics.
Kenya recently completed a controversial census that enquired into, among other things, the ethnicity of its citizens.
On 12 October 2009, SAIIA hosted South Africa’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies, at a speaker’s meeting where he discussed major trade policy challenges facing South Africa.
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