Isis crisis in Mozambique & links to SA: Deep insights on the Islamist uprising in Southern Africa
Martin Ewi sets out what’s been going on in Mozambique and SA – and why Isis is a significant threat to stability and investments in the region.
Martin Ewi sets out what’s been going on in Mozambique and SA – and why Isis is a significant threat to stability and investments in the region.
The late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was despised in most civilised areas of the world – but always enjoyed a friendly reception in South Africa.
By Peter Fabricius for ISS Africa Expressions such as ‘historic,’ ‘turning point,’ ‘pivotal moment’ and the like are considerably overused in diplomatic discourse. So one must take with a large precautionary pinch of salt the gushing assessments by some Washington Africanists that United States President Barack Obama’s first US-Africa summit was the biggest milestone in … Read more
For South Africans, most of the excitement ended even before the BRICS Summit in Fortaleza began earlier this week. After the previous summit in Durban, hopes were high that the $100bn BRICS Development Bank would be headquartered in Johannesburg. The South Africans had done most of the work on putting the structure together, and as … Read more