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Renewed Uncertainty in Zimbabwe: A Year After Mugabe
On November 14, 2017, Robert Mugabe, the long-time dictator of Zimbabwe, was forced to resign from office following…
Uganda: The Iron Grip of Museveni
This article was originally published by The Observer on Wednesday, 6th November, 2018. This article is a part of…
A Woman’s Place is in a Body Bag
CW: Sexual Violence, Abuse
On September 3rd, a second-year Rongo University student, Sharon Otieno, was declared…
Tunisia and Egypt: a Tale of Two Militaries?
Tunisia and Egypt are two of the most important and influential countries in the Middle Eastern and North African…
Shell Goes to Court: Decades of Dubious Conduct in…
Royal Dutch Shell is embroiled in what could stand to be one of the largest corruption cases in the history of the…
Maoist Plan or Marshall Plan?
In early September 2018, Chinese leaders met with leaders from nearly every African nation at the Forum on…
The Next Step for Cooperatives Is Certification
This past week we celebrated the United Nations International Day of Cooperatives, commemorated every year on the…
Rushed Elections and Ignored Questions: The Paris Summit…
On May 29th 2018, the Elysée welcomed what French President Emmanuel Macron called a “historic event” gathering all…
Corporate Social Responsibility: Capitalist Corruption…
According to the UK Business Consortium, 78% of consumers said they were more likely to purchase from a company…
The Brain Drain, the Civil War, and Angola’s…
The Angolan Civil War began as a proxy war between the United States and the Soviet Union. After successfully…
The Congo Wars: The Curse of Mineral Wealth Explored
In 1994, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), led by Paul Kagame, defeated the perpetrators of the…
Libya is not Saif
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, is seeking to run for Presidency in Libya’s 2018 elections. Although…