Somalia: Can South Africa Afford to Play a Role There?
Pretoria should think long and hard about exposing its young men and women to a dangerous situation in what may be a fruitless quest for stability, writes Tom Wheeler.
Event: War, Conflict and Organised Crime Conference
SAIIA’s War and Organised Crime Project hosted a conference entitled ‘War, Conflict and Organised Crime’ to which participants from all over the SADC region were invited.
Organised crime thrives in paradise
Known to divers as a paradise of coral reefs and pristine white shores, the southern Mozambique resort camps of Ponto D’Ouro and Ponto Malongane are home to about 3000 people eking out their existence in a drought-stricken environment.
Catching the middlemen fuelling African conflicts
Organised criminal networks in Africa thrive on the role played by middlemen, who together with political and military elites in regimes under United Nations embargo or with insurgents, have been largely responsible for supporting both the legal and illegal trade of commodities regarded as fuelling African conflicts such as coltan, diamonds and timber as well as facilitating the barter of goods for arms.
Democracy and Political Party Systems – Opinion editorials
Herewith the listing of news and media items written by researchers involved in SAIIA’s Party System Development in Africa project in PDF format:
Organised crime and corruption in Africa
Global levels of corruption have not improved in the last decade (Global Competitiveness Report 2003).
Mideast in best, worst of times: The region has seen some promising developments, and some causes for fear
It had been a pretty good month for peacemakers in the Middle East – that is until the car-bomb assassination of Lebanon’s five-times prime minister Rafik Hariri on 14 February, a modern Valentine’s Day massacre.
Rival insurgencies shatter myth of monolithic terrorist network
United States President George Bush seized on the arrest this week of a suspected colleague of Osama bin Laden by Pakistani officials, declaring Abu Faraj al-Libbi’s capture ‘a critical victory in the war on terror’.
Chasm Between How Westerners and Muslims View the Conflict that Binds Them
In the immediate wake of the rush-hour bomb blasts in London’s transportation network on Thursday morning.
Global Terror: Africa Not Immune to Terror
THE three suicide bombings on the Indonesian island of Bali last weekend, coming so soon after similar attacks in Britain and Egypt, underscore two critical and correlative points.