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Finding Long-Term Solutions to the Food Crisis in Africa: How Can Indigenous...

With the 2011 and 2012 food crises in the Horn of Africa and the Sahel, calls for urgent action and sustainable solutions to food insecurity in Africa have intensified. While many factors like rising...

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Mesure de la Pauvreté : Quelle Approche pour l’Afrique?

 Below is the original French version of this week’s Southern Voices blog post, written by Dr. Ibrahim Diarra. La pauvreté peut se définir comme une situation dans laquelle l’on note une absence de...

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Measuring Poverty: Which Approach Should Africa Take?

Below is the translated English version of this week’s Southern Voices blog post, written by Dr. Ibrahim Diarra. Poverty can be defined as a situation in which one notices the absence of sufficient...

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Press Release from the Sudd Institute on the Situation of Insecurity in Juba

December 17, 2013 – Juba, South Sudan. This press statement is an attempt to make sense of the events of December 15 through 17Th in Juba, when members of the Tiger Battalion of the Sudan People’s...

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Ethiopian Troops to Join AMISOM Mission: Implications for Somalia’s Security

For the last year, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), Somalia National Army (SNA) and allied forces were unable to expand their territorial control due to logistical and personnel deficit,...

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A Conversation with Edna Adan

Edna Adan at 76 years old has more energy than a woman half her age.  The nurse-turned-UN diplomat-turned former foreign minister of Somaliland retired to launch the Edna Adan Hospital in Hargeisa to...

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Youth Unemployment: A Potential Destabilizing Force in Senegal?

Youth unemployment has increasingly become a threat to stability and peace in Sub-Saharan Africa, as the recent positive economic growth observed in many African countries did not stimulate job growth...

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What is religious about the conflict in Central African Republic?

In the past two months, thousands of Muslims have fled or been displaced from the southern region of the Central African Republic, fearing for their lives in what some voices have warned might turned...

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African Solidarity Requires Regular Updating to Remain Useful

I recently attended an international conference in Pretoria, which, in addition to the excellent presentations and deliberations on the foreign policies of so-called “African driver states”, also...

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Plunder and The Perils of Mugabe’s Zimbabwe

         Zimbabwe is expiring, again. More banks are failing, beer sales – a key indicator – have slumped dramatically since 2013, tourist arrivals are down, and the business confidence index is at...

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