Political instability and unclear policies rock Egypt’s bourse By Kristen McTighe In the aftermath of the 2013 military coup that…
Browsing: Africa in Fact
By Simon Allison Ironically, Africa’s chronic economic underdevelopment may now be its greatest opportunity. After so many decades of sluggish…
Spare a thought for South African journalists, reduced to peering into murk and gun smoke for clues to what’s going…
One of Nigeria’s most dramatic episodes of judicial corruption happened in January 2013. The country’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission…
Elections should bring peace, not war. But for the past 15 years, whenever voters in Côte d’Ivoire went to the…
Defamation and insult laws remain on the books in many countries, but for the most part, the West has abandoned…
One night in April 2013, Luisa, a 46-year-old woman living in a small town in Mozambique, was on her…
Tunisia’s “transitional justice” process, which was set in motion in late 2013 after the 2011 revolution that overthrew the…
Eritrea is a paradox, a country that dips vertiginously from the mountains into the sea, from mellow temperate Asmara,…
The International Criminal Court (ICC) charges against Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, have shaped Sudanese domestic politics and the country’s external…
