
By Assem Abu Hatab, Tabeer Riaz and Emmanuel Orkoh What’s new? With debts increasing by more than 180 percent over the past decade, nearly half of Africa’s economies are on the brink of debt...
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By Assem Abu Hatab, Tabeer Riaz and Emmanuel Orkoh What’s new? With debts increasing by more than 180 percent over the past decade, nearly half of Africa’s economies are on the brink of debt...
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The decision by Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger to leave Ecowas reflects the bloc’s failure to address security and humanitarian issues in the subregion. It is also a result of people losing faith in...
What’s new? Ahead of the climate summit COP28 in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates' presidency of the summit declared food systems and agriculture as vital for climate-resilient development...
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What’s new? The 27 European Union (EU) member states have been engaged in negotiations on a new pact on migration and asylum since 2020. With recent reports of increases in the number of asylum...
What’s new? In many countries across the world, the Covid-19 pandemic exposed a lack of strategy and preparedness to provide educational systems that offer girls the opportunity to return to school...
SHILLA SINTOYIA MEMUSI & DIANA HØJLUND MADSEN From a gender perspective, three main lessons can be learnt from the general election. First, gender issues are on the rise, a fact shown not least by...
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What’s new? The Russian invasion of Ukraine poses significant threats to Africa’s food security. Both the timing and the two parties involved in this conflict aggravate the adverse impacts of the...
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The percentage of attacks on higher education is higher in Africa than in any other region. And with Covid lockdowns, the academic freedom at African universities has been challenged even further...
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One of the most efficient ways of promoting long-term inclusive development is to ensure domestic financing through a stable, broad-based and fair tax system. At the present moment, as policy makers...
What’s new? Through 2020 and 2021, the Covid-19 pandemic led to prolonged school closures in Uganda. These closures exacerbated sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against girls. Lockdowns...
L’exploitation aurifère artisanale au Burkina Faso a augmenté ces dernières années, de même que les attaques violentes de groupes armés non étatiques. Il est cependant trop simpliste de supposer...
As artisanal gold mining in Burkina Faso has increased in recent years, so have violent attacks by non-state armed groups. The assumption that there is a natural causal link between the two is,...
In the forthcoming Ghanaian elections, for the first time ever a woman has emerged as a vice-presidential candidate for one of the two major parties. Her candidacy has given rise to hopes of progress...
With its high level of female representation and its successful reconciliation process after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda has emerged as something of an African and global ‘model’ of gender equality and...
What’s new? Following the unexpected death this summer of the ruling party’s presidential candidate Coulibaly, incumbent President Ouattara has argued that under such extraordinary circumstances he...
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Jesper Bjarnesen The overall message of this policy note is that negative public opinion in Europe is a major obstacle to holistic and sustainable policies relating to African migration. It argues...
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Fofana Abraham, Henrik Persson, Anders Themnér Policy note no 4:2019 In many African countries where civil war raged not so long ago, former warlords are today running for office in elections. This...
Over the last 15 years, Ethiopia has seen remarkable economic growth. The agricultural sector is part of this growth, but its proportional contribution to the overall economy has gone down. There is...
About half of the people of Sub-Saharan Africa live below the poverty line, and 80 per cent of them are women. Their access to justice is guaranteed by international and domestic laws. But these laws...
Peace is not just the absence of conflict. The self-interest lying behind external ‘support’ can take many shapes. The pursuit of justice can sometimes thwart peace efforts. And, last but not least,...