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Africa calls for increased private investment into agriculture

Several African countries have called on the continent’s private sector to aid in enhancing Africa’s agricultural development programme. The Comprehensive African Agricultural Development...

NEPAD: Statement by the New Partnership for Africa's Development, African Heads of State at World Economic Forum call for increased agriculture investment (09/05/2013)

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African Heads of State and Government, eminent persons and leaders of business attending the 23rd WEF on Africa have been discussing the modalities of how to increase private-sector investment and...

African soil – when the going gets tough, privatisation gets going

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Privatisation in today’s world is a common word, but its impact, especially in regions like Africa, is less known. With increasing globalisation, the scope to privatise enterprises has increased...

Counter-terrorism in West Africa needs greater police cooperation

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

The growing number of terrorist attacks and the multiplicity of terrorist groups in West Africa demand increased cross-border cooperation among law enforcement agencies. As first responders to...

France’s intervention in Mali: A decision that couldn’t be avoided

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

This paper discusses France’s military intervention in Mali and the factors that led to France taking the lead of the first phase of the intervention. The security situation in Mali deteriorated...

African coastal piracy in 2013 - the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

African maritime insecurity, particularly in connection with acts of piracy, has constituted an important field of study for security researchers in recent years. It has also frequently made local...

AU: Statement by the African Union Commission, on elected members of key African Union institutions (28/01/2013)

STATEMENT

The 20th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union, on 28 January adopted five (5) decisions on the appointment of Members and Judges elected during the 22nd Ordinary Session of Executive...

Daily podcast – January 28, 2013.

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State investigators said in a report on Sunday that public funds weren’t spent on building President Jacob Zuma a house in his home village Nkandla. The report sought to end one of the biggest...

Mali: War By Default

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

In an apparent attempt to replicate their successes of last year, Islamist rebels in northern Mali launched fresh attacks on government positions in early January. These attacks resulted in another...

AU: Statement by the African Union, on the meeting of the Committee of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change in Doha (04/12/2012)

STATEMENT

“I would like to once again stress that African countries need adequate and predictable finance; capacity building and technology transfer to enable them to develop the agricultural sector and...

SA: Nathi Mthethwa: Address by the Minister of Police, at the 14th International Summit on Transnational Crime - Crans Montana Forum, Geneva, Switzerland (18/10/2012)

SPEECH

The South African Government’s understanding of crime is premised on the following, that crime is a scourge that does not respect borders, with syndicates that have made the entire globe the...

AU: Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma: Address by the Chairperson of the African Union, during the Hand-over Ceremony, African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (15/10/2012)

SPEECH

I stand before you today as a humble servant of the African continent and its people, ready - together with the newly elected Commissioners - to join the hundreds of African Union Commission staff,...

AU: Statement by the African Union, on the fifth meeting of the Sudan-South Sudan Consultative Forum (27/09/2012)

STATEMENT

1. The Sudan-South Sudan Consultative Forum (SSSCF), initially established as the Sudan Consultative Forum on 8 May 2010, held its fifth meeting at United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York, on...

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Implications of Another African Case as Mali Self-refers to the ICC

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

On 18 July 2012, Fatou Bensouda, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), released a press statement confirming receipt of a referral of the situation in Mali by the country’s...

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