Development Matrix
It has now become official that the South African economy is, once again, the continent’s largest economy, a return to the status quo which Nigeria disfigured in 2014 when a recalculation of... Read more
By International Crisis Group, (ICG) Team: Vincent Foucher, Jean-Hervé Jézéquel & Nnamdi Obasi Children are dying in Bama, a town in Borno state, north-east Nigeria, suffering fro... Read more
Pambazuka online (August 4th, 2016) where this piece was originally published introduced Malainin Mohamed Lakhal, the author of this piece, as a freelance journalist and translator as well a... Read more
Results of election into Municipal councils in South Africa held last Wednesday has not meant a clean sweep of the African National Congress, (ANC) as feared in some quarters although it did... Read more
A popular intervention in the management of power is underway in South Africa where the results of yesterday elections into mayoral and local representatives are due out shortly. Nothing is... Read more
By Kofi Annan on 23.05.2016 inPanel NewsSpeeches Remarks by Kofi Annan, chair of the Africa Progress Panel, at the side event ‘Call to Action: Achieving Nutritional Security – Feed Af... Read more
By Mohammed Abba Gana Let me also go by what has now become the convention here in Nigeria by uttering ‘All protocols observed’. I preface my statement with the seemingly unproblematic conte... Read more
British companies have taken over control of key African energy and mineral resources, a report by War on Want, the UK based development NGO, has shown. Authored by Mark Curtis, a historian... Read more