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19 May 2013
                       
 
 
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Turning Rhetoric into Reality: Accountability for Serious International Crimes in Côte d’Ivoire (April 2013)
HUMAN RIGHTS
This 74-page Human Rights Watch report analyzes Côte d’Ivoire’s uneven efforts to hold to account those responsible for serious international crimes committed following the November 2010...
 
 
30 Jan 2013
 
Côte d’Ivoire’s ‘blood beans’: Big men politics, conflict and environmental degradation in the land of cocoa
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
On 11 April 2011, the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI), backed by French military troops, arrested the long-time partner of Western interests in the region, the then-President,...
 
 
11 Dec 2012
 
Deep wounds heal slowly in Côte d'Ivoire
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
The contested Presidential elections in November 2010 provided the impetus for a violent and prolonged expression of ethnic, religious, and regional tension. This tension highlights social...
 
 
27 Nov 2012
 
 
 
'A Long Way from Reconciliation' – Abusive Military Crackdown in Response to Security Threats in Côte d’Ivoire (November 2012)
HUMAN RIGHTS
This report details the brutal crackdown that followed a series of violent attacks on military installations around the country in August. The attacks were allegedly committed by militants loyal to...
 
 
07 Sep 2012
 
Will the Interim President’s Formal Request to ECOWAS Unlock the Stalemate in Mali
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
Mali’s interim president Diouncounda Traore has formally requested the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to provide military assistance to stabilise the country, and especially...
 
 
05 Sep 2012
 
 
 
Daily podcast – September 5,2012.
PODCAST
Planning Minister Trevor Manuel says the Constitution cannot be blamed for the slow pace of change in South Africa. He said the Constitution empowers and enables, but beyond that, actual change...
 
 
31 Aug 2012
 
US: Statement by the World Bank, on the upcoming visit of the World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim to South Africa (31/08/2012)
STATEMENTS
WASHINGTON – World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim will visit Africa in his first official visit outside the U.S. since taking up his new position in July 2012. He will visit Côte d’Ivoire...
 
 
 
 
Daily podcast – August 31, 2012.
PODCAST
Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor says that South Africa as the major location for the Square Kilometre Array (or SKA) telescope changes the character of Africa. Pandor says that...
 
 
30 Jul 2012
 
 
 
Daily podcast – July 30, 2012.
PODCAST
Diplomats say delegations from around the world failed on Friday to agree on a landmark United Nations arms-trade treaty to regulate the more than 60-billion dollar industry. The UN is now opting...
 
 
13 Jun 2012
 
 
 
Daily podcast – June 13, 2012
PODCAST
General Bheki Cele has been dismissed as national police chief, President Jacob Zuma announced on Tuesday.
 
 
17 Feb 2012
 
New AU charter: Practicing Democracy or Pretending?
GOOD GOVERNANCE AFRICA
Paul Biya, Cameroon’s president since 1982, is one of the six African leaders who has successfully clung to power for more than a quarter-century. Paradoxically, his country was the 15th African...
 
 
27 Jul 2011
 
Quest for power: Human rights abuses in Ivory Coast
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
The 2005 Presidential election in Ivory Coast was expected to unite the north and south of the country, yet it was hindered for a period of 5 years.(2) Ivoirians believed that the outcome of the...
 
 
06 Jul 2011
 
Post-Election Reflection: Cote d’Ivoire’s 2010 Presidential Election
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
Cote d'IvoireOn 28 November 2010, the second round of the Presidential elections were held in Cote d’Ivoire. The Independent Election Commission (CEI) declared opposition leader Alassane Ouattara...
 
 
01 Jul 2011
 
 
 
Daily podcast – July 01, 2011
PODCAST
The Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) toll fee steering committee has put forward new, lower toll tariffs for the 185 km of road improved under the GFIP, a protracted struggle for Libya...
 
 
20 May 2011
 
News this week
UPDATE
As the sun rose on Friday morning, two days after the country’s fourth democratic local government elections, the results showed the African National Congress’ (ANC’s) support seemed stable,...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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