Development Matrix
Pseudo democracy! That is the verdict of The Economist of London on democracy in Africa a week or so ago. Presidential polls spiralled into post election violence in Gabon in Central Africa... Read more
By Mark Curtis This is a much travelled piece. Initially published in Huffington Post under the title, “Britain’s New African Empire” on July 26th, 2016, it was republished in Lusaka Times... Read more
By Sharif Mahmud Khalid Africa needs to structure better economi... Read more
Polio is back in Nigeria at the same time that the World Health Organisation, (WHO) is embarking on a Yellow Fever campaign in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo.T The conversation... Read more
Remember The Economist, the London based global weekly. That’s the newspaper that declared Africa as a Hopeless Continent in 2000 in a cover choice and got everyone wondering where it got th... Read more
Yesterday, Intervention published a piece titled “Africa’s Largest Economy: Between Nigeria and South Africa”. Against that background, we found this piece below interesting. Interestingly t... Read more
, By ASHLEIGH FURLONG and NATHAN GEFFEN Many HIV-positive people have been found guilty despite a lack of scientific evidence. Should people who transmit HIV be prosecuted? This was the subj... Read more
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
