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Decriminalising sexual orientation: Three African states compared

At the beginning of 2011, 36 states in Africa criminalised sexual orientation, with penalties ranging from fines in Algeria and Kenya, to the death penalty in Sudan and Nigeria. The...

Africa Should Not Allow the Ban on Cluster Munitions to be Undermined

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

This week, until 25 November, diplomats from some 100 States will meet in Geneva for the Fourth Review Conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW). High on the agenda is a new...

Impact of the Arab Spring: Is democracy emerging as a human right in Africa?

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

The crumbling of North African (NA) regimes holds serious challenges for international law on the African continent. Traditional international law refrained from prescribing to states which forms...

Africa’s Contribution to a World Free of Nuclear Tests

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

On 29 August, the international community observed the second International Day against Nuclear Tests. The UN General Assembly created the event in December 2009 through the unanimous adoption of...

What is Ghana Doing to Mitigate the Effects of the `Resource Curse`?

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

The discovery of natural resources in many African countries has rarely resulted in a direct improvement in the lives of the citizens. Nigeria and Gabon are textbook examples of the “resource...

Cabinet notes document on national climate change position

CLIMATE CHANGE

Cabinet has noted the national position for the negotiations on climate change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), spokesperson Jimmy Manyi said on Thursday....

SA: Statement by the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs, on the African position for COP17 (11/08/2011)

Statements

The Africa Group Negotiators on Climate Change (AGN) met in Durban at the International Convention Center, the venue for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change to be held in...

Democratic development in Africa: A tale of one step forward, two steps backward

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Emerging from the throes of colonialism in the 1960s, many analysts theorised that the nascent African states, as opposed to their Asian counterparts, were most likely to record substantial...

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