In the interest of making African Update more informative, more interesting, and easier to use for everyone we’ve made some changes to our website.   We will be providing a larger variety of content from a wider range of sources, including...
Topics: African Update

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Here’s a review for Helene Cooper’s excellent new memoir The House at Sugar Beach that I wrote for the Washington Times .
Topics: Liberia

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Robert Mugabe was photographed on Monday at a press conference announcing the start of conciliatory negotiations—which were apparently brokered by South African president Thabo Mbeki—holding the hand of his archrival and political opponent Morgan...
Topics: Democracy, Morgan Tsvangirai, Robert Mugabe, Thabo Mbeki, Zimbabwe

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Read our review of Stephen Kinzer’s new book A Thousand Hills: Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It

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After years of authoritarian rule, mismanagement, and tyranny—dating back to the 1980s—the end finally appears to be near for Robert Mugabe’s twenty-eight year reign in Zimbabwe.  His latest electoral shenanigans have finally...

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