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Kenyan Intervention in (al-Shabab dominated) Southern Somalia
The ICG has an excellent new report on the state of the the Kenyan military intervention in Somalia. The pressing issues raised in the report include economic, political and social concerns: The slow...
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On the unintended consequences of the Sachs-Kristoff syndrome
Badvocacy alert! With due apologies to the eminent economist and journalist. Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 publicity push is generating some backlash. Here is quoting Under the Banyan: Critics of the...
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A Ugandan journalist and a politician respond to Kony 2012
Angelo Izama, Ugandan journalist (and a good friend of yours truly) has a thoughtful op-ed piece in the Times. He makes the case that: Campaigns like “Kony 2012” aspire to frame the debate about these...
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Uganda is Not Spain
The Ugandan cyberspace went abuzz (see this, this, and this, for instance) following Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy’s quip a few days ago that Spain is not Uganda. Many commentators lamented at the implicit...
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Is our children learning? (Credit to Bushism)
The Guardian reports: More than two out of every three pupils who have finished two years of primary school in east Africa fail to pass basic tests in English, Swahili or numeracy, according to a new...
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UGANDA AT 50
This blog wishes all Ugandans around the world a happy independence day! Photo credit: http://tasjanoo.blogspot.com/ Filed under: africa Tagged: gen. salim, gen. tinyefunza, Joseph Kony, Kampala, Kizza...
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Is this the beginning of the Third Congo War?
Yesterday Goma fell to the M23, a rebel group in eastern DRC with alleged links to both Rwanda and Uganda. The fall of Goma increases the likelihood of an all out war in eastern Congo that might...
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Who is the M23?
Jason Stearns over at Congo Siasa provides a link to a backgrounder worth reading on the rebel group. Also with regard to the M23, Onyango-Obbo of the East African has some advice for Kabila: In the...
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Kerry or Rice? The View From Africa
The window is closing fast on the chances of having an Africanist as US Secretary of State (Minister of Foreign Affairs). Republicans in the US Congress, human rights activists and a section of...
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More on the DRC
CFR has a nice interview with Jason Stearns, DRC expert and author of Dancing in the Glory of Monsters. Jason in part notes that: This crisis has brought about a shift in international donor policy for...
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Museveni: UN missions stifling state capacity development in Africa
The Daily Nation reports: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said UN peacekeeping missions [especially in the DRC] are derailing efforts by African governments to end conflicts. He criticised the...
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Petro-Politics in East Africa
Is LAPSSET under threat? May be. The Economist reports: The Lamu pipeline makes the most economic sense for all involved. But failure to work together may doom it. National and personal interests trump...
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Africa’s newfound love with creditors: Bond bubble in the making?
I know it is increasingly becoming not kosher to put a damper on the Africa Rising narrative (these guys missed the memo, H/T Vanessa) but here is a much needed caution from Joe Stiglitz and Hamid...
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The cost of decentralization in Uganda
This quote from The Independent says it all: ……. In 2010 Bushenyi district was split into five districts. In the 2009/10 financial year, the old Bushenyi had a budget of Shs 1.64 billion for UPE and...
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How Eastern Africa can avoid the resource curse
This post originally appeared on the African Development Bank’s Integrating Africa Blog, where yours truly is a regular contributor. Eastern Africa is the new fossil fuel frontier (for more check out...
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Understanding Uganda’s Military Adventurism Under Museveni
On January 15th 2014 President Yoweri Museveni finally admitted that Uganda People’s Defence Force troops are engaging in combat operations within South Sudan. Right after the political fallout in Juba...
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Most read posts in 2014
Here are the top posts in 2014 1. Corruption under apartheid South Africa: This post was top partly because of the 2014 South African elections. More on the legacies of apartheid era corruption and...
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More on debt, macroeconomic stability, and natural resources in Africa...
See earlier posts on this subject here and here. Below is a quote from FP on Uganda’s growing petroleum sector (see also the Global Witness report on Uganda’s secret oil contracts here): Uganda’s...
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Africa’s Billionaires in 2014
Only 9 out of 54 African countries are represented on the 2014 Forbes billionaires list. There are certainly more than 29 dollar billionaires on the Continent (most of the rest being in politics)....
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How to write about Africa in one picture
This is a story about Kenya building the first new railroad since the British built the old one more than a century ago. The new line goes through a National Park. A watchman was attacked by a cheetah....
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