G8 Must Pinpoint Aid Bottlenecks
The recent report of a high-level aid watchdog says the G8 group of industrialized nations has fallen short of its aid promises to Africa by U.S. $40 billion.
The AU’s Rubicon
Having ‘won’ re-election with 85% of the votes in the controversial run-off, the last thing Mugabe expected was a call by the AU summit to initiate a dialogue with the MDC about the establishment of a government of national unity.
Lessons from citizen activism in Uganda: Saving Mabira Forest
People power (and lessons from previous failures) enabled Ugandan environmentalists to save a vital forest from commercial exploitation.
Leçons d’activisme citoyen en Ouganda : Sauver la forêt de Mabira
Le pouvoir du people (et les leçons tirées des échecs précédents) ont permis aux environnementalistes ougandais de sauver une forêt vitale des griffes de l’exploitation commerciale.
Lessons in Effective Citizen Activism: The Anti-Third Term Campaign in Zambia
Learn how Zambian civil society mobilised effectively to stop former President Frederick Chiluba changing the Constitution to run for a third term as president.
Leçons pour un activisme citoyen efficace : La campagne anti-troisième mandat en Zambie
Découvrez comment la société civile zambienne s’est efficacement mobilisée pour arrêter l’ancien Président Frederick Chiluba dans sa tentative de changement de la constitution pour pouvoir servir un troisième mandat à la présidence du pays.
Gentlemen or Villains, Thugs or Heroes? The Social Economy of Crime in South Africa
In the past decade South Africa has seen an exponential growth in cash-in-transit robberies, vehicle hijacking, illicit drug trade and white-collar crime, among others.
SADC Parliamentary-Civil Society Engagement Handbook
How can we, individually and collectively, strengthen parliamentary democracy in SADC countries?
Trade in Genetically Modified Foods: Decoding Southern African Regulatory Approaches
A plethora of factors conspire to make Southern Africa unable to feed its population leading, in some cases, to excessive reliance on donor food aid.
One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Deal-Breaker Issues in the Failed US-SACU Free Trade Negotiations
Owing to divergence in views between the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and the United States of America (US), the realisation of a free trade agreement (FTA) is now a longer-term goal than was intended when the negotiations were launched in 2003.