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Flawed elections and poor governance underlie Africa’s backsliding

Flawed elections and poor governance underlie Africa’s backsliding

by admins | 18 Jan 2024 | African Union, Democracy, Development, Elections

How do we explain the developmental and governance reversals now haunting Africa? Reasons for the apparent collapse of security are complex, but the thread running through insurgencies, coups and instability is slow development, bad governance and the nature of...
Positive outlook for Morocco’s development prospects

Positive outlook for Morocco’s development prospects

by admins | 4 Jan 2024 | Development, Economics, Futures, Morocco

North Africa and the Sahel have generally been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Coups last year rocked Mali, Niger, Chad and Burkina Faso, warring factions are tearing Libya asunder, and African migrants seeking greener pastures are defining domestic politics in...
South Africa’s visa regime keeps badly needed skilled workers out

South Africa’s visa regime keeps badly needed skilled workers out

by admins | 12 Sep 2023 | Development, Economics, South Africa

South Africa’s work visa regime is laborious, lengthy and inefficient. The process deters foreign investment, widens the skills gap and throttles productivity, economic growth and development. Between 2015 and 2021, only 16 097 critical skilled-worker permits...
What Africa wants and what the West needs to do

What Africa wants and what the West needs to do

by admins | 15 Jun 2023 | Development, Economics, Futures

If the West wants to position itself in Africa for the future – and in relation to China – the focus should be on good governance instead of calling for liberal democracy and the full spectrum of human rights as some type of silver bullet. On its own, democracy is not...
SA foreign policy must balance constitutional values and national interest

SA foreign policy must balance constitutional values and national interest

by admins | 25 May 2023 | Democracy, Development, Foreign Policy, Governance, South Africa

South Africa’s foreign policy seems rife with confusion and lack of principle. Capacity in the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) has deteriorated in recent years as the country stumbles from one crisis response to the next. This is publicly...
China vs the West: a contest that will hurt Africa’s future

China vs the West: a contest that will hurt Africa’s future

by admins | 7 Nov 2022 | Democracy, Development, Foreign Policy, Futures

A new long-term scenario analysis confirms that China will overtake the United States (US) as the most powerful country in the world by mid-century. The West, comprising the US and the European Union (EU), cannot constrain China’s momentum towards great power status....
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