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7 February 2012

06 Feb 2012

The relevance of al-Qaida in the wake of the Arab Spring

The political and social upheaval in many parts of the Middle East and North Africa that began with a young man’s personal quest for dignity after being slighted by a policewoman in a small...

03 Feb 2012

Commodities as a blessing and a curse: The potential for a sub-Saharan Spring

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

As the Arab Spring awaits the outcomes of the elections in Egypt and the unrest in Syria, the world media has once again turned its attention toward Iran’s controversial nuclear ambitions. As the...

01 Feb 2012

Year of rebellion: The state of human rights in the Middle East and North Africa (February 2012)

POLITICS

2011 was a year without precedent for the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa region. It was a year in which millions of people of all ages and backgrounds flooded on to the streets to...

27 Jan 2012

The Western Sahara and North African People’s Power

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

In April 2011, the mandate of MINURSO—the United Nations (UN) Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, which has been tasked since 1991 with maintaining a ceasefire and monitoring Africa’s...

26 Jan 2012

Daily podcast – January 26, 2012

PODCAST

South Africa’s economic policy choices were failing to deliver the economic growth and development required to deal with the country’s high levels of joblessness and poverty, several...

25 Jan 2012

SA’s strong FDI recovery not enough to lift Africa

FOREIGN INVESTMENT

A 269% recovery in South Africa’s foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in 2011, which climbed to $4.5-billion from a revised 2010 figure of $1.2-billion, was not sufficient to reverse the...

Algeria gives parties green light for election

ELECTION GREENLIGHT

Algeria's government on Tuesday authorised the creation of the first new political parties in more than a decade, four months before a parliamentary election when the authorities will be under...

24 Jan 2012

IMF slashes world growth outlook as eurozone weighs

GLOBAL ECONOMY

The euro zone debt crisis is escalating and dragging down the world economy, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday, as it sharply cut its outlook for global growth and called for policies...

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