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Foreign policy with Libya needs re-evaluating

By Geraldine Mortby, 18th August 2010

Assessing foreign policy challenges faced by the UK and Switzerland when dealing with Libya.

An examination of the endorsement of the GNU's principles in Zimbabwe

By Catharine Gresham-Thompson, 27th May 2010

Thirty years after its declaration of independence and one year after the inauguration of the Government of National Unity (GNU), how far has the power sharing government of Zimbabwe endorsed the principles it agreed a year ago?

Angola - Traumatised by History

By Jonathan Rivlin, 29th April 2010

Angola must make an effort to take responsibility for its future and move beyond its damaging past.

Kenya - Land of opportunity or potential Failed State?

By Boko Inyundo, 8th March 2010

The state of democracy: One year anniversary of Zimbabwe’s Government of National Unity

By Jonathan Rivlin, 2nd March 2010

Analysing the first year of Zimbabwe's Government of National Unity

Completing the Cycle: Ending Piracy off the Coast of Somalia

By Mhairi Laing, 11th January 2010

Somali piracy follows the same pattern of piracy throughout history and can therefore be defeated in a similar fashion.

HJS Strategic Briefing: China's Rise in Africa and what it means for the West

By George Grant, 26th November 2009

Militancy and Corruption in the Niger Delta: Prospects for a lasting peace

By George Grant, 18th November 2009

A current ceasefire between the Nigerian government and militants in the Niger Delta is being hailed as the best chance in years to finally bring peace to the oil-rich region. However, such hopes are premature. Conflict will resume in the Delta until much more fundamental reforms are carried through, not least to tackle the endemic corruption that links many of Nigeria's senior politicians to the militants they are supposedly trying to stop.

Moving forward in Somalia: The central government is not the only game in town

By George Grant, 15th October 2009

The international community's longstanding approach of dealing only with the central government has failed time and again. It must start supporting sub-state entities such as Somaliland and Puntland if Somalia is to stand a chance of moving forward.

The Women of Africa

By Denesha Brar, 6th August 2009

The relationship between women's rights in Africa and development

A Business Perspective on Current Developments in South Africa

By Michael Spicer, 26th January 2009

Dictatorship to Democracy? Guinea and Zimbabwe in 2009

By Kimberley Trewhitt, 6th January 2009

An examination of two significant cases for the development of democracy in 2009

Somalia: Piracy and Politics

By Georg-Sebastian Holzer, 4th January 2009

Change We Can Believe In? US Foreign Policy and Somalia

By Daniel Lawrence, 9th December 2008

Barack Obama's election as president presents a timely opportunity to address the threats presented to Western security by the political situation in Somalia.

Lessons for an interim presidency: the political landscape in South Africa

By Alexandra Goody, 6th October 2008

With the fall of Thabo Mbeki from office, what lies ahead for the democratic movement in South Africa and how should Mbeki's legacy be interpreted?

Egypt as an African Regional Leader

By Karen Collis, 30th September 2008

Egpyt's relatively strong economy and development make her a potentially positive force for Africa. Egypt's influence on other African nations, however, has often been disastrous, her gift to them one of Islamist extremism and all that that entails. The key question which dictates Egypt's engagement in Africa is that posed by the Muslim Brotherhood.