| Somali Piracy: An Escalating Security Dilemma |
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has grown exponentially in recent years. Only a unified stance by the international community that addresses a two-part strategy can facilitate the eradication of Somali piracy.... [read at Africa Policy Journal]
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| Through the Looking Glass: A Comparative Case Study Analyzing the Origins of Central Command and Africa Command |
This article examines the impetus for the establishment of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) in an effort to better understand how perceived threats to U.S. national security have evolved since the Cold War. The commands were created because new threats to American national security were inadequately addressed by the preexisting military organization.... [read at Africa Policy Journal]
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| Africa's Urban Farmers |
Across Africa, political leaders, long dismissive of rural concerns, have awakened to the importance of agriculture and the role that educated people, even those living in major cities, can play in farming. With prices for basic foodstuffs at their highest levels in decades, many urbanites feel well rewarded by farming.... [read at Project Syndicate]
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| Stabilizing the Horn |
After almost two decades as a failed state torn by civil war, perhaps the world should begin to admit that Somalia -- as it is currently constructed -- is beyond repair. If so, the place to start is the northernmost region, Somaliland, situated strategically at the opening to the Red Sea and already more or less autonomous and stable....[read at Project Syndicate]
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| A Less-is-More Growth Strategy for Africa |
If African countries were to adopt only one policy to boost economic growth and improve macroeconomic stability, they should reduce the number of currencies in circulation across the continent as quickly as possible. Currencies, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, are like democracies: the best way to preserve their integrity is to share them.... [read at Project Syndicate]
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| The Domestic Wars of Hosni Mubarak |
Project Syndicate
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| Sub-Saharan Africa�s Leadership to Nowhere |
Project Syndicate
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| Africa�s Bitter Harvest |
Project Syndicate
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| The Cartoonist�s Responsibility |
Project Syndicate
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| African Muslims In The Islamic World |
Project Syndicate
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| Nigeria�s Road to Ruin |
Project Syndicate
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| Nigeria�s Road to Ruin |
Project Syndicate
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| Let Africa Into the Carbon Market |
Project Syndicate
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| Kenya�s Democratic Hope |
Project Syndicate
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| Can Global Companies Save Africa? |
Project Syndicate
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| The Non-Trial of Charles Taylor |
Project Syndicate
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| Will Human Rights Survive Africa�s Latest Oil Boom? |
Project Syndicate
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| A French Twist for Trade |
Project Syndicate
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| Africa�s Press: Missing in Action |
Project Syndicate
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| Kenya�s Constitution |
FindAfrica
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| Museveni�s Choice |
FindAfrica
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| Liberia's Elections |
FindAfrica
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| Pirates of the Horn of Africa |
FindAfrica
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| Ethiopia�s Struggle for Democracy |
Project Syndicate
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| Closing Africa�s Journalism Deficit |
Project Syndicate
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| Namibia: Scant Progress For The San |
The Namibian
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| Eritrea and the 'International Community' |
ZNet
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| Liberia Journal: A Tortured Transition |
ZNet
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| Ghana: Ghana must get serious on Rights of Children |
The Ghanaian Chronicle
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| Solutions for Ethiopia: Lessons Learned by an Ordinary American |
Addis Tribune
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| The �Right� Growth for Africa |
Project Syndicate
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| Ways To Save Africa |
The Namibian
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| The End of South Africa�s Honeymoon |
Project Syndicate
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| Nigeria Wish List |
ZNet
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| Guinea: Living on the edge |
IRINNews
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| Hard Financial Questions about Soft Development Money |
Project Syndicate
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| The Betrayal of Democracy in Togo |
ZNet
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| Nigeria: The ILO Unemployment Alert |
ThisDay
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| Will the Next Democratic Revolution Be Egypt�s? |
Project Syndicate
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| The African Union � �Our Common Home� |
Addis Tribune
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| The Ivory Coast Shipwreck |
Project Syndicate
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| Kenya: The Constitution as a Promissory Note |
ZNet
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| Ghana: Participation of women in Parliament |
Ghanaian Chronicle
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| The Forthcoming Ethiopian Elections |
Addis Tribune
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| What Is Wrong With Sub-Saharan Africa? |
Project Syndicate
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| Deaths Outnumber Births as AIDS Ravages Southern Africa |
ZNet
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| Reinventing the Maghreb |
Project Syndicate
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| The Role of Radio and Newspapers in Africa � Challenges and Opportunities |
Addis Tribune
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| From knowledge to action - Crafting HIV/AIDS mesage that changes behaviour |
The Ghanaian Chronicle
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| Democracy on the Nile? |
Project Syndicate
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| Namibia: Political Perspective |
The Namibian
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| Africa, Climate Change, and the G-8 Summit |
Project Syndicate
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| Pressure Grows to Send Darfur Killings to The Hague |
ZNet
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| The Ghost of Biafra |
Project Syndicate
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| NEPAD and Reparations |
ZNet
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| As China Gains, Will Southern Africa? |
Project Syndicate
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| Africa Social Forum |
ZNet
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| Women Pushed Aside As Men Seek Power |
ZNet
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| Why cellphones should be cheaper in Africa |
Ghanaian Chronicle
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| Press Freedom In Tunisia A Casualty Of "War On Terror" |
ZNet
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| Recovering from Disaster... |
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| Making the Millennium Development Goals Achievable Sooner Than Later |
Addis Tribune
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| West Africa: The Curse Of Borders |
ZNet
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| The Far-Reaching Consequences of Tsunami Disaster |
Addis Tribune
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| A Deadly Reversal |
ZNet
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| Writing Back To The Empire |
ZNet
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| Women On The Map |
The Namibian
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| Zimbabwe Social Forum |
ZNet
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| The Case for Slowing Population Growth |
The Namibian
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| Discovering Women And Girls |
ZNet
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| Is This Justice? |
ZNet
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| Why Put Charles Taylor on Trial |
Project Syndicate
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| Starving for Capital in Sub-Saharan Africa |
Project Syndicate
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| Darkness at Darfur |
Project Syndicate
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| In Praise of Annan |
Addis Tribune
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| Sierra Leone's Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
ZNet
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| Exploitation on Tap |
ZNet
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| Flawed Polls and US Observers in Cameroon |
ZNet
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| Darfur Crisis |
ZNet
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| Naming the Darfur Crisis |
ZNet
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| Africa's Oil Rush |
Project Syndicate
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| Disarming Somali militias |
ZNet
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| Zeroing in on Sudan |
ZNet
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| U.S. 'hyping' Darfur Genocide Fears |
ZNet
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| I am a Responsible Voter, Are You? |
Addis Tribune
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| Sudan: What can We Learn |
ZNet
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| The US and Terrorism in the Horn of Africa |
Addis Tribune
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| Adventure Playground : Africans Have Good Reason To Be Suspicious |
ZNet
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| The Upcoming Election and the Role of Civic Organizations |
Addis Tribune
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| Why Put Charles Taylor on Trial |
Project Syndicate
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| ALiberia: Peace at Last? |
ZNet
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| Threatening The Sudan Government Won't Help Darfur |
ZNet
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| Combining renewable energy with Information and Communication Technologies: A new solution to rural poverty and global competitiveness |
The Ghanian Chronicle
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| Darfur at the Crossroads |
ZNet
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| Namibia: Crime And What To Do About It |
The Namibian
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| Africa's Quest for Power |
Project Syndicate
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| A Call for Sudan |
ZNet
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| Diaspora�s Too Much Dream |
Addis Tribune
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| Congo Press Freedom |
ZNet
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| At the Crossroads of Failure |
Addis Tribune
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| The Non-Priority Spending Spiral |
The Namibian
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| Outsourcing in Africa |
Project Syndicate
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| To Pay Or Not To Pay |
The Ghanian Chronicle
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| What does hosting the Pan-African Parliament mean to South Africa? |
ZNet
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| The Eco money to come |
The Ghanian Chronicle
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| The Crisis in Ivory Coast |
ZNet
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| Ending Hunger In The 21st Century |
Addis Tribune
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| Namibia's Political Landscape: A Reflection |
The Namibian
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| Diamonds Without Maps |
ZNet
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| Sierra Leone: The Mysteries of a Special War Crimes Trial |
ZNet
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| Brain Drain - Killing Ghana Softly |
The Ghanian Chronicle
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| Rethinking the Public Sector |
Addis Tribune
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| A Plan to Strengthen UN Peacekeeping |
Addis Tribune
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| Diamonds Without Maps |
ZNet
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| The Nile Waters: Moving beyond Gridlock |
Addis Tribune
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| Sudan: Peace in the South And War in the West |
The Namibian
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| Sure, make merit the real benchmark now |
East African Standard
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| Namibia: New Government Needs New Approach |
The Namibian
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| Malaria and Tuberculosis: Forgotten Diseases |
Addis Tribune
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| South Africa, Israel-Palestine, and the Contours of the Contemporary World Order |
ZNet
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| Ethiopians Hunger for the World's Help |
Addis Tribune
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| Signed peace deals are good for Africa�s future |
East African Standard
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| Africa's Debt Dilemma |
Project Syndicate
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| To South Africa Critics |
ZNet
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| Atrocities in Sudan |
ZNet
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| Who killed Kwame Nkrumah? �A Case of Cockerels in A Den of Foxes |
Ghanian Chronicle
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| Ethiopia: Looking Forward to National Elections |
Addis Tribune
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| What Globalisation holds for Africa |
Independent Media Center
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| Our Unbalanced World |
Project Syndicate
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| Do we have laws in Nigeria? |
ZNET
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| Coming Out in Africa |
Project Syndicate
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| A new solution to rural poverty and global competitiveness |
The Ghanian Chronicle
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| Shell's Corrupt Shell Game in Nigeria |
Project Syndicate
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| The Rwandan Genocide - 10 years later |
ZNet
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| Remembering a Genocide |
Addis Tribune
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| All Quiet on the Burundi Front? |
Project Syndicate
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| The Lessons of Liberia |
Project Syndicate
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| Economising The Truth (II) |
The Ghanian Chronicle
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| A Human Rights Court for Africa |
Project Syndicate
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| Toll Mounts in Global AIDS Pandemic |
Addis Tribune
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| Do What We Did, Not What We Say |
Project Syndicate
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| NIGERIA POLITIC: We must decide: 'to be a nation, or not! |
Independent Media Center
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| How the French Plunder Africa |
Project Syndicate
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| Economising The Truth (I) |
The Ghanian Chronicle
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| Neither Aid nor Trade |
Project Syndicate
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| Empire Or Africa |
ZNet
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| Life After Power |
Project Syndicate
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| Conversing With Africa |
ZNet
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| Historical Wounds and Democracy |
Addis Tribune
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| Africa's "Best Practices" |
Project Syndicate
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| Reflections on South Africa |
ZNet
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| Economic prosperity for Africa |
TownHall.com
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| Nigeria is a Poor Country |
ZNet
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| Should Africa Follow the EU Model? |
Project Syndicate
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| Brand New Africa |
WorldLink
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| Africa�s unwritten history |
Sunday Standard
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| Privatizing Nigeria's Government |
Project Syndicate
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| Disarmament - An Idea That's Long Overdue in Africa |
Addis Tribune
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| Peace in the Congo? |
ZNet
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| Liberia Now, Zimbabwe Next? |
Project Syndicate
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| If Economists Are So Smart, Why Is Africa So Poor? |
Addis Tribune
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| Children and Aids |
Addis Tribune
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| Africa's Odious Debts |
Project Syndicate
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| AIDS, Empire, and Public Health Behaviourism |
ZNet
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| An African renaissance |
TownHall.com
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| Long Term Economic Impact Of HIV/AIDS More Damaging Than Previously Thought |
ExpoTimes
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| Turning Africa Around |
Addis Tribune
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| Economic prosperity for Africa, too |
TownHall.com
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| Schools of Development |
Project Syndicate
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| Africa needs help - from blacks and whites |
The Independent
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| Reconstructing and Aiding Africa�s AIDS Victims |
Addis Tribune
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| Mali: Democracy and successful dual transition of political and economic libralization |
Addis Tribune
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| In Africa, AIDS Has a Woman's Face |
Independent Media Center
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| Between Pax Americana and Pax Africana |
Project Syndicate
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| Africa's Scar Gets Uglier |
ZNet
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| Africa must not be excluded from World Trade |
The Ghanian Chronicle
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| Africa Union�s New Initiative for Democratic Norms |
Addis Tribune
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| Ethiopia's Worst Famine in 20 Years |
Addis Tribune
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| HIV/AIDS In Africa: Children Infected and Affected by the Pandemic |
Addis Tribune
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| French proposals for agricultural development in Africa |
The Ghanian Chronicle
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| Shadow Peace Talks for Somalia |
Addis Tribune
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| Mobilizing Africa's Governments to Fight HIV/AIDS |
Project Syndicate
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| Telecommunications - Still a neglected, misunderstood gateway to progress |
The Ghanian Chronicle
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| The International Criminal Court |
Addis Tribune
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| Commitment to the Ideals of the AU |
Addis Tribune
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| Market Solutions, the Environment, and Morocco |
Project Syndicate
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| Africa: World Bank Annual Report |
United Nations
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| Speeches from the African Union Summit |
Addis Tribune
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| Lessons From the Linas-Marcoussis Peace Accord |
Expo Times
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| Cashews and Nutty Policies in Mozambique |
Project Syndicate
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| Stop using children as weapons of war |
The Ghanian Chronicle
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| The downside of democratic legitimacy |
The Zimbabwe Independent
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| Corruption and Liberalization |
Project Syndicate
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| HIV/AIDS And Africa: Back To The Drawing Board |
Addis Tribune
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| Kenya's 2002 Elections: Ten Lessons |
Addis Tribune
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| Way To Go Kenya |
Find Africa
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| Creating the blocks for peace in Africa |
The East AFrican Standard
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| Is Nepad just a toothless blueprint? |
The Zimbabwe Independent
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| The greening of Africa |
Scientecmatrix
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| Small
Stock Markets in a Globalized World |
Project Syndicate
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| Nepad, the AU and challenges for the African media |
The Zimbabwe Independent
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| Has terrorism opened a new frontier? |
The East African Standard
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| Are Donors Really Sure About Sovereignty? |
The East African
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| Stamping out corruption in Africa: a dream or a
reality? |
The Addis Tribune
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| Confederation of the Horn: A Poisonous Idea |
The Addis Tribune
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| Fallacy of Foreign Aid as Engine of Economic
Development |
The Addis Tribune
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| Do Away With Parties, Try Corporative Democracy |
The East African
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| The Limits of Self-Reliance |
Project Syndicate
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| Issues for a viable African Union |
Vanguard
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| We all suffer |
Mail & Guardian
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| The APU: Organizing African Unity Without the
Colonial Element II |
The Accra Daily Mail
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| Science and Africa's Salvation |
Project Syndicate
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| Political change in Kenya |
The East African
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| Famine is the new enemy |
Sunday Times
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| The G8 and Afro-Optimism (Mbeki) |
AllAfrica.com
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| Africa's Challenge |
Worldlink
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| Thabo Mbeki's various African initiatives |
ZNET Commentaries
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| Africa's Challenge |
Washington Post
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