South Africa’s Congress of the People has weighed in on Jacob Zuma’s recent revelations about his out-of-wedlock child. The upstart party, facing its own internal turmoil, plans to call for a motion of no confidence in Zuma when Parliament resumes this week. The gesture is almost certain to amount to symbolic grandstanding, though if all […]
We are fast approaching the year anniversary of the fragile alliance that is Zimbabwe’s Unity Government,” and while the worst aspects of the country’s economic disaster have stabilized, virtually no progress has been made on breaking the impasse that has set in between Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF and Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC. And of course […]
Both houses of Nigeria’s National Assembly have passed a motion asking that Umaru Yar’Adua hand temporary power to his deputy President, Goodluck Jonathan. Yar’Adua has been out of the country (and by most accounts out of contact) since November and speculation has run the gamut as to just how sick he is. He has been […]
I was traveling all weekend without internet access and I will be gone for much of this week and am not certain if I’ll have internet while I am away. As a result, a relatively commentary-free links dump: Texas in Africa is tired of folks in the media asserting that the crises in the Democratic […]
These are not South African President Jacob Zuma’s best days. To make an American analogy, Zuma right now comes across to much of the public like a mix between Bill Clinton and John Edwards. Bill Clinton survived his sexual peccadilloes, though they wounded his presidency and legacy substantially and may well have helped cost Al […]
At Business Insider Lawrence Delevingne has a lengthy expose on the realities of at least one major company’s attempt to do business in Senegal. From Delevingne’s intro paragraphs: For entrepreneurs, Africa represents the last great open market. The upsides can be tremendous. Tens of billions of dollars from around the world, especially China, have gone […]
The FPA’s Great Decisions television series, which provided the initial impetus for all of the FPA blogs, has kicked off its 2010 season. They are all worth seeing, of course, but regular readers of this blog will be most interested in Episode 2: “Justified Force,” which looks at Kenya and East Africa in the wake […]
The United Nations is upping the pressure on Ivory Coast to hold a long-promised election. The country’s current political crisis began with an attempted coup against President Laurent Gbagbo in September 2002, which left the country with a nasty split between the rebel-held north and a government-controlled south. The election has already been delayed six […]
The African Union (AU) is gathering in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. For the last year the AU has been led by Moammar Gaddafi, to the discomfort of many. And while there were fears that he was going to try to seek re-election to a second term, Gaddafi stepped aside, yielding to Malawi’s President Bingu […]
South Africa continues to gear up for the World Cup. While some fear crime or terrorism FIFA and the local organizing committee have finally said enough with the negativity. Meanwhile it looks like all stadiums will be ready well ahead of time, and boosters hope that the world-class facilities will help change the views people […]
This just in: Land disputes are a cause of many difficulties in Africa.
The Committee of Experts Investigation of the April 6, 1994 plane crash of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana is complete and you can access The Mutsinzi Report and supporting material here. The shotting down of Habyarimana’s plane is widely seen as the precipitating event for Rwanda’s genocide.
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