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Friday, March 29, 2013

Cool Graphics We Don't Want to Start Assembling for Africa

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I'm going to keep harping on this until I see a good reason to desist. US policy toward Africa is becoming heavily militarized . If cur...

Round Up in Brief

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Sorry for the brief hiatus. Been traveling. Africa Confidential briefs on the remaining M23 rebels, some 1300 troops under the command of ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

In the Sahel, a Better Way to Nip anti-US Sentiment

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There are better ways to fight anti-US extremism in the Sahel than by pursuing policies that fan those exact sentiments. For example, instea...

Why Everyone Who Cares about Africa Should Worry about Obama's Militarization of the Continent

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Today's article in The Guardian about the US deployment of drones in Niger is the umpteenth bit of evidence that US policy toward Afric...

She'd have to be really, really, really Special

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Enough is on a tear to have Obama appoint a special envoy to the Great Lakes. I can't see that it would do much harm, unlike some of ...

Graphic: Why Ntaganda's Surrender Isn't the End of the Story

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Jeune Afrique is out today with an interactive, expandable map of other armed groups operating in eastern DRC. It was created by Kisangani...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Tis the Season

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Auto Proclamé no more For militia leaders to hang up their Kalashnikovs, apparently. Last week it was Ntaganda, of course, but before th...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Hint: Not Us

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Jinping wants to sell them boots If our focus in Africa is on who to stomp on , and theirs is on who to trade with , who do you think wi...

Water, Water Everywhere and not a Drop . . .

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More plentiful than potable Major kudos to Syfia Grands Lacs, which features an excellent series of articles about drinking water in the...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

Just another Day at the Office

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I'm pretty sure this wasn't the revolution Marley had in mind Press accounts about the fracas in Lubumbashi that took approximat...