Patrick Smith
On 13 February, President Jacob Zuma will take a formal break from
election campaigning – to give the annual State of the Nation address.
The accent will be on the word 'formal' as with national elections now
set for 7 May, the State of the Nation address...
Patrick Smith
Stronger
economies and troubled politics sum up the reports in Africa
Confidential’s
first two issues of the year, which focus on events and developments
ahead. The International Monetary Fund still forecasts African growth
at over 6% for 201...
Stars Foundation
1 December 2013
WORLD AIDS DAY: SOUTH AFRICAN EDUCATION CHARITY TACKLING HIV WINS UK AWARD
On World AIDS Day, the Stars Foundation is delighted to announce IkamvaYouth as 2013 Impact Award Winner for Education in Africa-Middle East. The remaining Imp...
Patrick Smith
As more details emerge about the drowning of over 350 African migrants when their ship capsized on 3 October a few miles off the Italian island of Lampedusa, officials at the European Union are under pressure to find ways to prevent such disasters. Ital...
Gill Lusk
'We were blessed to have the State of Qatar!', declared the head of the Darfur Regional Authority (DRA) on 8 May in London. Not everyone says that, at a time when the Gulf emirate is rising up the international monitoring list for jihadist funding. Along ...
Patrick Smith
The
post-mortem on Kenya's 4 March election could prove as important as
the vote itself. It is under way after Raila Odinga, presidential
candidate for the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (Cord),
submitted a detailed petition to the Supre...
Patrick Smith
by
Patrick Smith in Nairobi
Questions
about Kenya's election results four days after voting and the crash
of electronic systems meant to provide safeguards against rigging are
raising the political temperature. Opinion is divided between those
who...
Patrick Smith
BAMAKO: Mali
and Libya were the only African states to surface in the three US
presidential debates between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. In fact it
was Romney who raised the spectre of the jihadist takeover of
northern Mali, fresh from his la...
Gill Lusk
'Protests
over Sudan austerity measures' say the headlines. Yes, people are indeed protesting about the government removing subsidies on fuel and sugar, two of the commodities that Sudanese hold most dear. And they are protesting when the government tell...
Gill Lusk
Picture the scene. A score of motley officials, aid workers and
journalists are seated around a table at Britain's Overseas Development
Institute in London. At the head of the table sits Pa'gan Amum
Okiech, Secretary General of South
Sudan's governing pa...