Tackling election violence
One of the many issues that African NGOs are tackling is election violence — bringing different sides together to prevent it as well as analyzing what happens after the fact. […]
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Haitian Earthquake Relief
Here is a link to a list of several agencies that are providing earthquake relief to Haiti. If you wish to recommend an organization that is not on this […]
“Piracy” in the Gulf of Aden: Profit, Media, and Superpower Redemption?
Part I: Pirates in the Gulf of Aden: “The enemies of mankind?”
by Isaac Kamola
The impoverished Somali teenager, wearing a waterproof jumpsuit, was handcuffed and chained at the […]
“Piracy” in the Gulf of Aden: Profit, Media, and Superpower Redemption?
Part II: A Movie Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon: Pirates Of the Somali Coast and the Curse Of the Failed African State
By Tekle Woldemikael
On April 8, […]
The Double-Edged Gift: Sifting Through the Electronics Morass and Toxic Waste in Africa
By Dele Ogunseitan
“The measurements of the costs of health impairing pollution depend on the foregone earnings from increased morbidity and mortality. From this point of view a given amount […]
The politics of donor evaluation requirements: A practitioner’s reflections
By George Wachira, NPI-Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya
My reflections are from the perspective of a practitioner, having been involved in peacebuilding practice for the last eighteen years. NPI-Africa, […]
Forty Years of Pandemic Quiescence Ushers in New Questions about the Focus of Global Health
By Dele Ogunseitan
On Thursday 11 June 2009, Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) invoked the highest level of global alert (level […]
Shrinking Malaria’s Map- but who gets left behind?
By Uli Beisel
The last decades have been characterised by a resurgence of malaria, mainly caused by resistance against the malaria drug chloroquine. In the […]