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The new ECOWAS chairman must focus on strengthening democracy and security in west Africa.
There is only a single mooring managed by French researchers that monitors the impacts of climate change on West African Canary Current.
The failures of nominally elected governments has denied leaders - as well as the democratic system - a vanguard popular constituency.
Unimpressive democratic conditions and foreign influence in African countries make recent attempted and successful military takeovers unsurprising.
Coup risk in Guinea-Bissau is likely to decline, but changing leadership presents its own risks.
It’s one thing to come up with food security plans. But implementing them is tough.
South Africa is only one piece in a larger puzzle of the heroin trade along the continents east coast.
The new Internet of Things has the potential to compensate for Africa’s legacies of underdevelopment.
Portugal used radio propaganda in its colonies in the 1960s against local liberation movements. Decades later there are still lessons to be learned for occupying armies from their failed strategies.
Regional power Ecowas, which has just seen off yet another dictator in Yahya Jammeh, started off with a tame agenda 42 years ago. But it was soon shaped by civil wars, military coups and despots
Despite the evident weakness of state institutions and accountability of elites, Guinea-Bissau is still a country that ‘works’.
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Associate Professor of History, Indiana University
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Researcher in conflict, peace and security, University of Nottingham
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Professor in Food Security; Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria
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