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*South Sudan and the failure of a ruling elite*
International media describes South Sudan’s civil war as having begun as a
political power struggle among the leaders of the ruling Sudan People
Liberation Movement (SPLM) party, which later took on an ethnic tone. This
depiction is not only true for this war but also for previous South
Sudanese conflicts.
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*Africa: how economists get it wrong*
For the past two decades, mainstream economists who study African economic
growth have been trying to explain something that never happened.
Economists have focused almost exclusively on one question: Why has
economic growth failed in Africa?
This is not only an academic past time, the question has made its way into
popular discourse too. Most famously, in 2000, the front page of The
Economist depicted Africa as a hopeless continent that was unable to
experience economic growth and development. In a special report on the
continent, the magazine asked “Does Africa have some inherent character
flaw that keeps it backward and incapable of development?”
Yet only ten years later, the same publication had a completely different
front-page report about Africa as a hopeful continent that was on the rise.
How could they have got it so wrong the first time?
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*Nigeria’s new political landscape explained*
Two contrasting scenes reveal the aspirations and challenges Nigerians
currently encounter. At the presidential inauguration crowds cheer as the
former president, Goodluck Jonathan and the new office-holder, Muhammadu
Buhari shake hands after the formal handover of power.
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*Review: We Will Win Peace (Congo & conflict minerals)*
In 2010, the United States Congress passed the expansive sounding
‘Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act’. Its section
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contained a requirement which appeared revolutionary for how the West
understood its complicity in perpetuating war and sexual violence in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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