Sudan
Africa represents the ideal field for testing the procedures of the European Security and Defence Policy. That is the view of Niagalé Bagayoko-Penone, an expert on Security and Development at Sussex University’s Institute for Development Studies (IDS) in the United Kingdom.
It all began with Operation Artemis, the first EU intervention outside its immediate neighbourhood. It was...
Musa (Hassan Musa) is an African artist whose work has been exhibited in an impressive number of prestigious venues, among them the Venice Biennale, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, San Diego Museum of Art, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and the Johannesburg Art Gallery. He was in Belgium for an exhibition at the Museum of Tapestry and the Museum of Fine Arts in Tournai and to present a paper at the...
Migration, European Union support to South Sudan and trade issues topped the agenda of the ACP-EU Council of Ministers held on May 31st in Brussels.
Chairing the meeting, Hungary’s Foreign Minister, Jănos Martonyi, whose country was, at the time, in the EU’s rotating presidency chair, said that migration is currently a very sensitive issue in the EU. Migration problems will...
Interview with Dr Martin Uhomoibhi
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The recent holding of free and fair presidential elections, Nigeria’s role in conflict resolution in Africa, its global peace-keeping activities under a United Nations mandate and an average 7 per cent economic growth are all positives. The country is expected to achieve its development goals and become a...
The hot underground rocks in East Africa’s Rift Valley are thought to be a promising solution for energy production. The first results were recorded in Kenya, under the auspices of the United Nations and the expertise of the Icelanders.
In Africa, high-temperature geothermal resources – used to generate electricity – are usually found in areas of tectonic and volcanic activity...
This essay, writes the Editor Salah M. Hassan, highlights the selective ways in which the conflict in Darfur has been presented, represented, and used by a rangeof actors in and outside of Sudan to promote their own agendas and interests. It draws attention to the urgency of apprehending the politics of representation around Darfur "from within."Focusing on Sudan's historically...
For over eight years, war has raged in the Darfur province of western Sudan, bordering Chad. This conflict with multiple causes – inter-ethnic conflict, aggravated by population growth, oil exploration, and an expansion of the conflict in Chad – has to date displaced over 2.5 million people, with more than one million killed. Since the beginning of the conflict the EU has attempted to...
A painter and engraver, Rashid Diab is also an architect in his spare time, and especially when it comes to building a center dedicated to the arts in downtown Khartoum.
"The center that I built should prepare people to fight using culture as a tool, "says Rashid Diab from the outset, and continues: "This country suffers on the inside. Cooperation with the West has been...
The 2005 peace agreement makes provision for the sharing of oil revenue, three-quarters of which is obtained in South Sudan. It also makes provisions regarding the concluding of international treaties, including the treaty on sharing the waters of the Nile. To these two sensitive issues, a third must be added that is not covered by the peace agreement: land ownership.
Whereas in North...
“Corruption is one of the most important transversal issues that the government of South Sudan must combat,” believes Dr Pauline Riek, head of the Anti-Corruption Commission set up by the Salva Kiir government.
Corruption is a plague that is poisoning relations in this nascent state and that the government itself recognises. “How do you think we financed our guerrilla action...
Africa represents the ideal field for testing the procedures of the European Security and Defence Policy. That is the view of Niagalé Bagayoko-Penone, an expert on Security and Development at Sussex University’s Institute for Development Studies (IDS) in the United Kingdom.
It all began with Operation Artemis, the first EU intervention outside its immediate neighbourhood. It was...
Musa (Hassan Musa) is an African artist whose work has been exhibited in an impressive number of prestigious venues, among them the Venice Biennale, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, San Diego Museum of Art, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and the Johannesburg Art Gallery. He was in Belgium for an exhibition at the Museum of Tapestry and the Museum of Fine Arts in Tournai and to present a paper at the...
Migration, European Union support to South Sudan and trade issues topped the agenda of the ACP-EU Council of Ministers held on May 31st in Brussels.
Chairing the meeting, Hungary’s Foreign Minister, Jănos Martonyi, whose country was, at the time, in the EU’s rotating presidency chair, said that migration is currently a very sensitive issue in the EU. Migration problems will...
Interview with Dr Martin Uhomoibhi
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The recent holding of free and fair presidential elections, Nigeria’s role in conflict resolution in Africa, its global peace-keeping activities under a United Nations mandate and an average 7 per cent economic growth are all positives. The country is expected to achieve its development goals and become a...
The hot underground rocks in East Africa’s Rift Valley are thought to be a promising solution for energy production. The first results were recorded in Kenya, under the auspices of the United Nations and the expertise of the Icelanders.
In Africa, high-temperature geothermal resources – used to generate electricity – are usually found in areas of tectonic and volcanic activity...
This essay, writes the Editor Salah M. Hassan, highlights the selective ways in which the conflict in Darfur has been presented, represented, and used by a rangeof actors in and outside of Sudan to promote their own agendas and interests. It draws attention to the urgency of apprehending the politics of representation around Darfur "from within."Focusing on Sudan's historically...
For over eight years, war has raged in the Darfur province of western Sudan, bordering Chad. This conflict with multiple causes – inter-ethnic conflict, aggravated by population growth, oil exploration, and an expansion of the conflict in Chad – has to date displaced over 2.5 million people, with more than one million killed. Since the beginning of the conflict the EU has attempted to...
A painter and engraver, Rashid Diab is also an architect in his spare time, and especially when it comes to building a center dedicated to the arts in downtown Khartoum.
"The center that I built should prepare people to fight using culture as a tool, "says Rashid Diab from the outset, and continues: "This country suffers on the inside. Cooperation with the West has been...
The 2005 peace agreement makes provision for the sharing of oil revenue, three-quarters of which is obtained in South Sudan. It also makes provisions regarding the concluding of international treaties, including the treaty on sharing the waters of the Nile. To these two sensitive issues, a third must be added that is not covered by the peace agreement: land ownership.
Whereas in North...
“Corruption is one of the most important transversal issues that the government of South Sudan must combat,” believes Dr Pauline Riek, head of the Anti-Corruption Commission set up by the Salva Kiir government.
Corruption is a plague that is poisoning relations in this nascent state and that the government itself recognises. “How do you think we financed our guerrilla action...
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