In the News: The Aid and Development Debate Redux
The CIHA Blog previously posted about Nina Monk‘s new book, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty. A few months later, William Easterly, a professor […]
The CIHA Blog’s commentary on recent news pieces about events in Africa.
The CIHA Blog previously posted about Nina Monk‘s new book, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty. A few months later, William Easterly, a professor […]
Out of the Central African Republic comes reports of increasing human rights violations and recruitment of child soldiers for sectarian fighting between Muslim and Christian militias. Yet Nyeko […]
Barely two-and-a-half years old, South Sudan is now seeing political rivalries flare up, pushing the country into crisis. Rebel armies have taken over the oil-producing region, which will hardly improve […]
We at The CIHA Blog join the world in our sadness to hear of former South African President Nelson Mandela’s death. Madiba’s life embodied all types of struggle for justice, […]
Writer Paul Theroux, in “Africa’s Aid Mess” for Barron’s, delves into the history of debates over Western aid to Africa, from Charles Dickens to Bill Gates. “The desire of […]
The economic and demographic prowess of Africa alone may not necessarily be the turnaround strategy for the continent, as Jay Naidoo argues in the article ‘Africa Rising? Whose Africa?‘ […]
In “Sudan’s Struggle for Peace” for Foreign Policy Magazine (Middle East Channel), University of California, Santa Cruz professor Mark Fathi Massoud analyzes recent protests in Sudan by placing them […]
Using health, education, economic, rights, stability, and infrastructure data from a number of international organizations, academic and research centers, and development organizations, this “Scoring Africa” infographic compares Africa’s 54 internationally […]
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