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The Congo Basin Forest Partnership: Together, Shaping the World of the Future
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 26th November 2009 On 11 and 12 November 2009, the sixth plenary session of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) took place in Yaoundé, Cameroon. This high-level... →
Implication of China-Africa Trade 
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 26th November 2009 Africa may see greater cooperation with China as an opportunity for growth and prosperity. Indications are the China-Africa trade regime seems to... →
Thou Shall Not (Just Shoot to) Kill
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 24th November 2009 In the last few weeks in South Africa, exponents and antagonists of a proposed ‘shoot to kill' policy have been provided with ample ammunition. On... →
Zimbabwe: Will President Zuma grasp the nettle?
By: Denis Worrall 20th November 2009 As Business Day pointed out in an editorial last week, with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) having now laid down certain... →
Leaders show a red card to those playing the race card
By: Terence Creamer 20th November 2009 One positive that could eventually emerge from the unhappy saga that unfolded at Eskom earlier in the month, could be that it becomes increasingly... →
Going for broke in Copenhagen
By: Harald Winkler 20th November 2009 The future of the climate change regime is to be decided in Copenhagen. It is not looking pretty. The US is not ready to put a firm number to the... →
Enabling Higher Education Development through Challenging Commercial Academic Publishing
By: Adam Habib 18th November 2009 Can you imagine an industry in which the workers who laboriously produce the product are paid by the public purse, those that painstakingly review... →
New “Tough on Crime” Policy will Need a Better-Trained Police Force
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 18th November 2009 Pronouncements by the new South African Police Service (SAPS) management and even the Presidency on its approach to harden the stance in the fight... →
AU Darfur Panel Report: Will Justice for some and political reform for others suffice for Sudan?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 18th November 2009 Under the auspices of an African solution to the intractable Darfur conflict, with the African Union (AU) preparing to take on a more robust role... →
To Forgive Mercenaries in the Spirit of Madiba
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 18th November 2009 The recent presidential pardon for convicted South African mercenaries in Equatorial Guinea is unprecedented. While others view this as an insult... →
