Category: Zimbabwe

• New Report: The Anatomy of the Resource Curse: Predatory Investment in Africa’s Extractive Industries

  May 5, 2015

  Angola, Guinea, Madagascar, Sino-Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe

  My colleague, J.R. Mailey of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, just published The Anatomy of the Resource Curse: Predatory Investment in Africa’s Extractive Industries. Full disclosure: I haven’t read the report in its entirety, but I’ve seen J.R. brief on this topic and know the investigative and analytical work that went into producing it, so I’d Read.

• Median Ages in Africa + Leader Tenure in Power

  November 2, 2014

  Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of the Congo, Swaziland, Uganda, Zimbabwe

  There’s nothing like a political crisis to get me blogging again. Following last week’s mass protests in Burkina Faso that resulted in the resignation and exile of Blaise Compaoré, who had ruled the country since 1987, I thought it would be cool to juxtapose the median ages African countries with the tenure in power of Compaoré and Read.

• Happy 90th, Mr. Mugabe

  February 24, 2014

  Zimbabwe

  Zimbabwe is one of the countries I don’t follow too closely, but it was hard to miss President Robert Mugabe’s 90th birthday celebration over the weekend. (His actual birthday was on Friday the 21st). I paid my respects by watching Nando’s “Last Dictator Standing” ad, which features a sad Mugabe reminiscing over the presumably fictionalized good Read.

• Key questions for African-initiated intervention force for eastern DRC

  August 9, 2012

  African Union, Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, ECOWAS, Kenya, MONUSCO, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, SADC, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, United Nations, Zambia, Zimbabwe

  On August 7th and 8th, International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) heads of state met to discuss the deployment of an international force to fight the M23 rebel movement that has been active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu region since April of this year. While they did not end Read.

• If African leaders are the “glue” what happens when they leave?

  May 22, 2012

  Zimbabwe

  Over the weekend, Zimbabwe’s Standard Sunday newspaper published an interview with President Robert Mugabe’s former Home Affairs and Defence Minister Enos Nkala. Nkala, who had since fallen out with Mugabe, spoke with the Zimbabwean leader last week and stated “From what we discussed, Mugabe said he is tired and wants to retire but he cannot do so Read.