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September 20, 2016
Sub-Saharan Africa
Africa’s Changing Economic Landscape
This is a guest post by Allen Grane, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. Bloomberg Markets’ Michael Cohen and Helen Nyambura-Mwaura have analyzed the curr…
June 27, 2018
South Africa
Even as Winter Rains Come to Cape Town, Water Scarcity Is Here to Stay
In 2017, Western Cape Premier Helen Zille declared the Western Cape a disaster area because of the drought. In March, the ruling African National Congress’ minister for cooperative governance, Zweli Mkhize, declared a national state of emergency. However, with the arrival of winter rains, Mkhize did not renew the state of emergency when it expired on June 13.
September 6, 2011
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa: Another Political Challenge for Jacob Zuma
Helen Zille, leader of South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance party, addresses an election rally in Mitchell's Plain township near Cape Town, April 18, 2009. (STR New/Courtesy Reuters) Zuma’s…
October 26, 2012
Yemen
Weekend Reading: Women and Early Islam, Yemen’s Separatists, and Syrian Refugees in Egypt
Helen Lackner on Open Democracy, discusses the possibility of southern separatists in Yemen disrupting the country’s unity. Nada Moselhy describes the experience of many of the Syrian refugees now l…
May 14, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa’s Angst over De Klerk’s Apartheid Comments
Former South African president F.W. de Klerk’s May 10 CNN interview, in which he comments, inter alia, on apartheid and his relations with Nelson Mandela, has generated widespread outrage. De Klerk’s…
