Angola is best known for its contrasts - less so for the old and recent history that explains them and holds them together.
Stephen Marks
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Global perceptions of Sudan and Sudan-China relations have been dominated, especially in the West, by the conflict in Darfur and the International Crimianl Court arrest warrant for Sudan’s President Bashir.
Tagged under Arts & Books‘All-weather friend’ or ‘new colonialist’? The ongoing narrative wars over China’s African involvement between (mostly) Western Sinophobes and those they deride as ‘panda-huggers’ have become as predictable as the opening moves in a game of chess.
Tagged under Global SouthIs China smartening up its environmental and social act in Africa? It certainly wants to be seen as doing just that. One telling example was the recent Chinese government-sponsored ‘top Chinese enterprises in Africa’ competition, won by China Road and Bridge Corporation [CRBC].
Tagged under Global SouthRaphie Kaplinsky of Britain’s Open University was one of the founders of its Asian drivers programme which began as far back as February 2005 following a Rockefeller programme on global production networks.
Tagged under Global SouthA call for a crackdown on tax abuses and loopholes across Africa, with an end to tax preferences for big corporations, a crackdown on transfer pricing rackets by multinationals and fair and transparent taxation on extractive industries – not an agenda many would expect to come from major global e
Tagged under GovernanceFor three decades now Deborah Brautigam has been covering China’s African engagement, long before it was a fashionable ‘scare issue’ in the West.
Tagged under Global South'Quiet corruption' – the failure of public servants to deliver goods or services paid for by governments – is pervasive and widespread across Africa and has a disproportionate effect on the poor, with long-term consequences for development, according to a new report from the World Bank.
Tagged under GovernanceZimbabweans in Europe are being targeted by the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum to make their input into the Forum’s Taking Transitional Justice to the People programme.
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