international relations

Discrimination Against Pakistani Asylum Seekers in Uganda: A fair hearing is...

Uganda is one of the top refugee-hosting nations in the world. This has been attributed especially to its progressive refugee legal framework...

Applying Japanese Productivity Methods in Africa: Can Kaizen help to...

Amidst December's US-African Leaders Summit and ongoing debates around the impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, watchers of international development cooperation...
Credit: Royal African Society

Britain’s new relationship with Africa?

On 2 November, the Royal African Society marked its 120th Anniversary with a celebration of Creative Africa at The Shard in London. It...

#BookClub. Democracy Under Pressure: Where do we go from here?

There is an increasing mood of pessimism, or even alarm, about the fragile state of our world today. We have climate change that...

The Irony of La Francophonie

As the Summit of La Francophonie begins in Djerba in Tunisia, the organization and the francophone world it represents are faced with...

Why Somalia’s worst ever famine shames the world

More than a quarter of a million people died of hunger in Somalia in 2011 – half of them children younger than five. The...

Sexual exploitation by UN peacekeepers in DRC: the impact on fatherless...

"My father left my mother while she was pregnant – she gave birth when he had already left. People call me “daughter...

The False Tradeoff: Revisiting the Democracy vs Security Paradigm in Africa

You would not know it from the news, but sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing its worst surge of political violence in more than...
Statue of Julius Nyerere in Tanzania/CREDIT: Fadhili Teri

How Chinese non-interference enables African authoritarianism

In 2019, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda faced a serious opposition movement led by musician-turned-politician Bobi Wine. Feeling increasingly threatened by Wine’s...

Long read: What motivates China’s investment & lending practices in Africa?

Since the wave of independence in the 1960s, African countries have faced numerous instances of debt distress in which they could not...