Nawal El Saadawi: “My identity is not fixed”
Egyptian feminist activist and writer Nawal El Sadaawi will be in London headlining the fifth Africa writes literature and book festival.
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Sisi’s Egypt: A desert mirage?
After three years in power, Egypt’s President Sisi is looking vulnerable as foreign funding and public patience run out over his failure to tackle the country’s longstanding economic crisis.
Terrorism in Africa is no longer somebody else’s war
Once a theatre for proxy wars, Africa must now confront the spectre
of homegrown terrorism by knowing its enemies, choosing its friends
and fighting the instinct for overkill, argues Kalundi Serumaga.
The Sousse terrorist episode and the Tunisian exception
It is time for Tunisians to start building a normal state where security and sound economic management buttress democratic governance.
Gen. Khalifa Haftar: Libya’s next strongman?
General Khalifa Haftar is a former Gathafi loyalist who in the past year became Libya’s most prominent “rogue general” and is now head of the internationally recognised national army.
Sudan: Land grabbing and displacement
Land grabbing is not a new phenomenon in Sudan. The antagonism between private property and customary approaches to land ownership stretches back through the post-independence period and into the colonial era.