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For three days, some youths from various parts of Africa gathered at the Kabarak University in Nakuru County of Kenya to discuss the continent’s age-long problems. Why is Africa poor? Why is it underveloped? These and others were …
Continue readingExperts are agreed that the key to unlocking the economic potential of the Southern African Development Community lies in easing cross-border flows of people, goods, capital and services.
But even if border restrictions can be lifted, a lot more needs …
Continue readingGermany wants to make an imprint in Africa and it looks to do this with Africa as an equal partner. The country has set up focus areas including media, sports, movies etc as points of interaction and partnership with the …
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It would require a one sided view with several shades of immorality to say or ascertain that the free market is either immoral in itself or that it promotes immorality. Going by the simple and conventional definition of markets, it’s …
Of all contemporary statecraft in the world today, one state continues to defy all logic and conventional wisdom. Ethiopia the 85 million people horn of Africa behemoth of a state continues to baffle all that care to throw more …
Continue readingIt has been over a decade since talks regarding the demarcation of Eritrea-Ethiopia border stalled, and relations between the two long-standing nemeses deteriorated into an effective cold war.
Although the Eritrea-Ethiopia war officially ended with signing of the Algiers Agreement …
Continue readingMrs Thatcher played a pivotal role in the ending of Apartheid in spite of herself. She once declared the African National Congress to be a "typical terrorist organisation… Anyone who thinks it is going to run the government in …
Continue readingEritrea is with some frequency referred to as "The North Korea of Africa". However, this analogy is not helpful for understanding Eritrea. Moreover, and worse, it serves to obscure dynamics which would be helpful in understanding the country.…
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Foreign aid seems noble, but there are distinct fallacies and unplanned destructive effects from that proposal.
“Poor people in poor countries are poor because they have low incomes; they have low incomes because they produce very little value; …
Continue readingAt the start of April, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a new arms trade treaty. The treaty had been nearly 20 years in the making and seeks to regulate the $70 billion international trade in conventional arms.
Despite the …
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