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Into Africa

Does foreign aid to Africa only make matters worse? Will AIDS wipe out a generation? Can Zimbabwe be saved from Robert Mugabe’s misrule? What can stop the genocide in Darfur? How will Africans feed and educate themselves? Does debt relief promote or ultimately hinder economic growth?

Africa’s challenges seem too numerous to count, and too overwhelming to overcome. The AIDS pandemic victimizes the sub-Sahara, even as high birth rates burden societies already unable to educate and employ their youth. Poverty remains a scourge, and ethnic wars seem emblematic of the continent’s incapacity for tolerance. Besieged by problems, Africa is often dismissed as a basket case and consigned to a future as a ward of the international community.

Date Title / Authors Available Languages
June 2008 Zimbabwe’s Permanent Guantánamo
by Priti Patel
English Spanish Russian French German
Chinese
May 2008 The Last Extinction
by Achim Steiner , Ahmed Djoghlaf and Sigmar Gabriel
English Spanish Russian French German
Chinese Arabic
May 2008 A New Chance for Darfur
by Stephen Eric Bronner
English Spanish Russian French German
Chinese Arabic
April 2008 Protecting Zimbabwe
by Desmond Tutu and Aryeh Neier
English Spanish Russian French German Czech Chinese Arabic
April 2008 Whither Africa’s “Frontier Markets”?
by Ian Bremmer
English Spanish Russian French German
Chinese Arabic
March 2008 Zimbabwe's Last Chance
by Tawanda Mutasah
English Spanish Russian French German
Chinese Arabic
March 2008 Privatizing Africa’s Development
by Austine Ometoruwa
English Spanish Russian French German
Chinese Arabic
February 2008 Did Development Fail in Kenya?
by Jean-Michel Severino
English Spanish Russian French German
Chinese Arabic
January 2008 Nigeria’s Resurgent Oil Diplomacy
by Ike Okonta
English Spanish Russian French German
Chinese Arabic
December 2007 The “Browning” of African Technology
by G. Pascal Zachary
English Spanish Russian French German
Chinese Arabic
December 2007 War Without End on Congo’s Women
by Maryam Elahi
English Spanish Russian French German
Chinese Arabic
November 2007 Medellin Moves to Africa
by Antonio Maria Costa
English Spanish Russian French German
Chinese Arabic
November 2007 Somalia’s Endless Hell
by Anna Husarska
English Spanish Russian French German
Chinese Arabic
October 2007 Africa’s Integration Imperative
by Sanou Mbaye
English Spanish Russian French German
Arabic
September 2007 Retiring Mugabe
by Aryeh Neier
English Spanish Russian French German
Arabic
August 2007 The Flawed Options in Darfur
by Richard Weitz
English Spanish Russian French German
Arabic
August 2007 India in Africa
by Alex Vines and Gareth Price
English Spanish Russian French German
Arabic
July 2007 Europe’s New Mission in Africa
by Michéle Alliot-Marie
English Spanish Russian French German
Arabic
June 2007 Emerging Hope from Africa
by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
English Spanish Russian French German
Arabic
May 2007 Who Will Stop Zimbabwe’s Torturers?
by Tawanda Mutasah
English Spanish Russian French German
Arabic
April 2007 Nigeria’s Lost Chance
by Ike Okonta
English Spanish Russian French German
Arabic
April 2007 Economic Development Before the Law
by Johannes Jutting and Denis Drechsler
English Spanish Russian French German
Arabic
March 2007 Overcoming Africa’s North-South Divide
by Sanou Mbaye
English Spanish Russian French German
Arabic
February 2007 Senegal’s Democracy Put to the Test
by Alfred Stepan
English Spanish Russian French German
Arabic
February 2007 The Changing Face of France in Africa
by Alex Vines
English Spanish Russian French German
Arabic
January 2007 The Lessons of South Africa
by Desmond Tutu
English Spanish Russian French German Czech Chinese Arabic
December 2006 Rise Up and Walk
by Wangari Maathai
English Spanish Russian French German Czech Chinese Arabic
November 2006 Madonna and Africa’s Children
by G. Pascal Zachary
English Spanish Russian French German
Arabic
October 2006 China’s Grand Africa Strategy
by Sanou Mbaye
English Spanish Russian French German
Arabic
September 2006 TB and HIV: A Combination Made in Hell
by Olayide Akanni and Jamillah Mwanjisi
English Spanish Russian French
Arabic
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