EU aid to Africa comes as carrot, not stick

Apirl 1,  2014 Agence France-Presse The head of the EU’s huge aid programme to Africa warned on Tuesday that tying investment on the continent to democratic reforms risked backfiring if viewed as neo-colonialism. “I would always warn against linking the

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ICC delays Kenyatta trial start

April 1, 2014 BBC Uhuru Kenyatta maintains that the ICC has no case against him Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been postponed to October. The delay was intended to give the the government

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Al Shabab leader hits popular chord in call to oust Kenyans and Ethiopians

The Christian Science Monitor By Alex Dick-Godfrey April 1, 2014 A version of this post appeared on Africa in Transition. The views expressed are the author’s own.  In a recent article on the Daily Maverick, Simon Allison identifies the “surprisingly perceptive” core message of Al

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