Prosecution at last — but at a price
JANJAWEED and the Lord’s Resistance Army are the armed groups accused of gross human rights violations in Sudan and Uganda respectively.
African Observers in Fallout Over Zim Polls
There is ongoing disagreement about the role played by African countries in sanctioning Zanu PF’s landslide victory in Zimbabwe’s parliamentary election on March 31.
Society Must Drive SA Peer Review
SA has started its own African Peer Review Mechanism process with a call for submissions from individuals, institutions and groups on any of four areas of the review: democracy and political governance; economic governance and management; corporate governance; and socioeconomic development.
APRM: The Need for Transparency
By opening governments to scrutiny by citizens and continental peers, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) embodies commendable ideals.
Peer Review Faces Critical Choices
In Abuja, Nigeria, African leaders will gather in a few days to brainstorm on Nepad’s future.
Mismanaged from the Start?
Mbeki will have a lot to answer to when questioned about the African Peer Review report on governance in SA.
Development Through Trade – Opinion pieces
Herewith the listing of news and media items written by researchers involved in SAIIA’s Development Through Trade project. Articles are not necessarily confined to the project’s area of focus.
Nigeria: Yar’Adua Must Rekindle Nepad
Nigeria’s recent presidential elections were marred with accusations of widespread electoral fraud, raising serious questions about governance in Africa’s most populous nation.
Act now, or history will say SA ruined peer review
South Africa, as one of the leading voices for governance reform in Africa, has undermined that very effort by the manner in which it has conducted the African Peer Review Mechanism.
SA’s peer review tactics dishonest
IT IS an interesting reflection of the times that the word “denialism” has so easily slipped into everyday usage that any ordinary person immediately knows what the phrase conveys and the tendencies that create the need for such a word.