The Power of Oil: Charting Uganda’s Transition to a Petro-State
The report investigates the political impacts that oil is likely to have on Uganda.
South Africa as Africa’s Gateway: A Perspective From Business
For more than a decade, international companies have chosen South Africa as the preferred entry point into Africa.
Electing a new female head of the World Bank
The World Bank needs a new president.
Making Key Business Constraints in SADC Tangible: Experiences of the Private Sector
The SADC Secretariat, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit – GIZ – and SAIIA would like to invite you to participate in the launch of a series of business case studies documenting the TOP 10 business constraints in SADC region in a tangible way.
Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a thorny issue for both governments and large scale mining (LSM) companies.
Mining in Africa: Preventing holes in the ground and the pocket
How can Africa extract lasting dividends from the growing global commercial engagement in its mineral and oil resources?
South Africa’s audacity of hope? The geopolitics of consensus and rivalry in the African Union
Arguably, the renewed interest in Africa in the last decade, characterised by the commodity boom and fuelled by the rise of China and India, has brought a fresh set of challenges for the continent at a time of great power flux.
Busan HLF4: Bringing everyone under the same roof
It will take some time to fully unpack what happened in those three high-powered days at the 4th High Level Forum (HLF) on Aid Effectiveness in Busan.
Towards a Framework of Principles for the G-20: Assessing the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung ‘Guidelines’
A rapidly changing world needs a navigational system if it is not to founder on the rocks of high finance.
Zimbabwe’s Marange Diamonds and the Need for Reform of the Kimberley Process
In November 2011 the Kimberley Process (KP) approved the sale of diamonds from Zimbabwe’s Marange region.