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Beyond Ebola event Salient points and podcast
Audio podcast: Increasing attention is being paid to economic recovery in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. The term ‘recovery’ is problematic. It can imply a reversion to the way things were before...
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DFID’s work with multilaterals: Views from the UK’s Aid watchdog Salient...
The Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) was founded in May 2011 to maximise the effectiveness of the UK aid budget for intended beneficiaries and to ensure value for money for British...
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Beyond Ebola: “a time for action” in Sierra Leone By Jamie Hitchen
“I am tired of hearing the government talk about ‘post-Ebola’. It is already too late, things are happening now and we can’t wait for things to improve to change. It is time for action”. Dr Bintu...
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The Guardian, 25 June 2015
ARI Policy Researcher, Jamie Hitchen, participated in a live Q&A for The Guardian on the economic recovery in Sierra Leone, post-Ebola. The post The Guardian, 25 June 2015 appeared first on Africa...
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Reflections on the AfDB’s 50th Annual Meeting By Paul Adams
If annual meetings are a sign of progress, the African Development Bank has come a long way, judging by its recent gathering in Abidjan. It was the first I had attended for 20 years. In the 1990s, a...
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The Economist, 11 July 2015
ARI publication “How Property Tax Would Benefit Africa“, by Nara Monkam and Mick Moore, was cited in The Economist’s print edition article “Tax them and they will grow” – read the online...
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Whose Land Is It Anyway? The failure of land law reform in Kenya
Land is a “key fault line”1 in Kenya. Throughout East Africa, land reform has failed to confront the material consequences of unequal access. Since the 1990s, law reform has been the favoured means of...
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Electoral shenanigans in Zanzibar: a sign of CCM desperation? By Dr Maïlys...
ARI seeks to encourage debate and question orthodox views. In this spirit, we post this guest blog by Dr Maïlys Chauvin, a French academic with LAM-CNRS, Sciences Po Bordeaux. Her account of election...
View Article9 September event: Modernist architecture in Asmara, Eritrea with Dr Edward...
Speaker: Dr Edward Denison, Teaching Fellow, The Barlett School of Architecture, University College London Event details: Date: Wednesday 9 September, 2015 Time: 6pm to 8pm Location: Africa Research...
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Views of suburban Luanda: the move from an informal settlement to social...
This is the first of two guest posts by Dr Chloé Buire examining the expansion of suburban Luanda. It focuses on Panguila, a relocation settlement for residents of Luanda’s slums, and chronicles the...
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Contemplating collaboration: Traditional medicine, biomedicine, and...
Throughout Africa, reports of national biomedical systems being unable to provide sufficient care for their citizens, especially in rural areas, are increasingly common. In Cameroon, doctor-to-patient...
View Article5 November event: What are the consequences for Africa of China’s economic...
Speaker: Professor Robert Rotberg Robert Rotberg is the Founding Director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict at the John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and president emeritus of...
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Tanzanian Affairs, 1 January 2016
Our Senior Researcher, Nick Branson ‘s blogpost “Tanzania: Division and Derision in the United Republic” was referenced on the journal Tanzanian Affairs . The post Tanzanian Affairs, 1 January...
View ArticleDebt and corruption in Tanzania
On 30 November 2015, a landmark judgment saw Standard Bank fined US$25.2 million and ordered to pay the government of Tanzania US$7 million in compensation for allegedly failing to prevent bribery....
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10 Things to Watch in 2017
1. Political turmoil in Africa’s two largest economies: In Nigeria and South Africa, embattled presidents are increasingly unable to provide the predictability sought by investors. A combination of...
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