Monday Africa Roundup
I’m spending Monday catching up on all the work I’d intended to do over the weekend before I got distracted by a series of surprisingly… Read More »Monday Africa Roundup
I’m spending Monday catching up on all the work I’d intended to do over the weekend before I got distracted by a series of surprisingly… Read More »Monday Africa Roundup
As President Laurent Gbagbo heads towards the end of his five year term, it’s possible that violence may flare in Côte d’Ivoire, which has been… Read More »Côte d’Ivoire – You can go your own way?
The MV Semlow, hijacked by pirates off the Somali coast, appears to have been released, along with its cargo. Reuters reports that the ship is… Read More »Somali pirates dump rice, keep cement
While most of Somalia has been a dangerous, unstable place since the fall of Siad Barre in 1991, Somaliland, the northernmost part of the former… Read More »Somaliland Elections
It’s official Talk Like A Pirate day today, a day that seems to have particular appeal for copyfighters like Cory Doctorow (who react to the… Read More »It’s all fun and games until somebody loses some rice.
Foreign Policy’s most recent issue features a Failed States Index, a listing and map of the sixty nations they believe are most likely to collapse,… Read More »The Failing States Index, and the question of why some states that should fail, don’t