Friday 7th August - 2009

The main focus of this publication is the link between South Africa`s grand pan-African ambitions, especially in the area of peace, security and governance, and its own capacity to pursue these objectives. Specifically, the paper examines Pretoria`s involvement in Africa, and internal capacity to support its mediation, peacekeeping and strengthening the abilities of African institutions for peacemaking Read more...

Thursday 6th May - 2010

Since Kenya`s return to pluralist politics in 1992, all evidence suggests the country is loosing the war on corruption.If the trend continues, Kenya will not realise its Vision 2030 of becoming a middle-income and industrial country. to reverse the trend,the country needs to institute far-reaching reforms of the constitution to nurture institutions and norms of accountability. It also requires building strong anti-corruption institutions with the necessary power to prosecute perpetrators of corruption and to revitalise civil society and citizen lobbies to spearhead the war on graft. This report is an attempt by the African Policy Institute to examine the impact of the crisis of democratic transition on the struggle to control corruption. The report shows that the authoritarian one-party regimes of Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi effectively stifled the emergencies of strong institutions to combat corruption. A poisonous mix of corrupt client-patron relations, ethnic politics, and s... Read more...

Friday 18th June - 2010

Kenya is in the grip of the politics of climate change together with the struggle for land natural resources which are a fundamental root cause of conflict in Africa. The current Africa Policy Report: Fighting for the Mau Forests, draws attention to land and climate change as vectors in the politics of Kibaki succession. The report fittingly draws inspiration from a growing discourse on the connection between climate change and competition for natural resources within the context identity conflict. It is researched and written against the backdrop of the 2008 post election violence that killed over 1000 Kenyans and displaced 600,000 others, and the unfolding battle for the soul of the Kenyan in the run up to the crucial 2012 general elections. The report provides a new platform for further debate on how to deal with intricable underlying causes of conflict. Book available in local bookshops countrywide. Read more...

Tuesday 30th November - 1999

So excited I found this article as it made things much quikcer! Read more...