The African Union’s intervention track record in conflict situations is mixed.
- Executive director, Africa Institute of South Africa, Human Sciences Research Council
Many believe that it is only a return to the country’s two-state federation that will end the conflict and break the impasse.
What Cameroon needs is a properly mediated process signing all the parties to a pre-agreed agenda
Les anglophones du Cameroun souffrent d’une marginalisation flagrante et sont traités comme des citoyens de seconde zone par le gouvernement francophone.
Cameroon’s English speaking people suffer gross marginalisation and are treated as second-class citizens by the Francophone government.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has to ensure that reform of critical institutions is placed first. Everything else will be compromised if this fails.
The vision set out by Cyril Ramaphosa has the seeds for galvanising South Africans to get back on the right path. But it urgently needs a plan to make it happen.
President Paul Biya’s credibility and legitimacy are increasingly being tarnished, amid growing support for opposition candidates.
If the MDC-Alliance claims Zanu-PF and Zimbabwe’s electoral commission rigged the elections, the onus is on them to prove it.
Barack Obama was asked to give the Mandela Lecture because he represents what the global liberation struggle icon stood for. He struck the right chord.
More leaders in more African countries will abolish term limits unless organisations like the African Union take action.
South Africa, following its peaceful transition, occupied the moral high ground and could influence the agenda of intergovernmental bodies like the United Nations. Not anymore.
Calls for the decolonisation of countries, institutions, the mind and of knowledge are not new. In South Africa, these changes are crucial and long overdue. But they must be carefully thought through.
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