London: At the start of one of Africa's busiest political seasons - more than 17 elections are due this year - the deepening crisis in Cte d'Ivoire sends a brutal reminder of the limits of electoral politics. The idea that free-ish multiparty elections supervised by the United Nations were going?

Johannesburg: Theory is important, not just to philosophers but to all of us, because how we understand our world enables us to direct our actions in a manner that is most fruitful and more likely to achieve the results we seek. The words "national", "democratic" and "revolution" are concepts - ways?

Lagos: Allover the world, Central Bank governors are not popular technocrats. Unlike top politicians and civil servants, no one in the grassroots bothers to know the name of the governor of the central bank. Although they make critical macroeconomic decisions that affect the lives of millions of?

Doha: Speakers gave a call for closer co-operation between governments and civil society organisations at different levels as the 7th Forum for Future of G8 and countries of the Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMena) got underway at Ritz Carlton Doha yesterday. Calling upon the representatives?

Lagos: The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiativesaid it has met all the conditions spelt out last October by the Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiativefor Nigeria's validation as ‘compliant country'. Sam Ohabunwa, alternate chairman of the Task Force of Nigeria's?

Jakarta: An NGO lodged a complaint to the Central Information Commission (KIP) on Thursday regarding the rejection of 37 state bodies to disclose documents on budget allocations. The Indonesian Forum for Budget Transparency (FITRA) filed information requests to 65 state institutions, but only 28 had?

Nairobi: The Commission on Revenue Allocation has been exhorted to work "without fear of any person or organ of government." Justice minister Mutula Kilonzo assured members of the Micah Cheserem-led Commission that they would have a free hand to work. Mr Kilonzo told the nine members, sworn in on?

Nairobi: I gather that a former Treasury mandarin, Dr Kamau Thugge, has been recalled from Washington where he has been working with the International Monetary Fund to assist the government craft a fiscal decentralisation strategy. Working with a team of economists from both the Treasury and the Ministry?

Nairobi: Investors in the education sector were on Wednesday left reeling by a populist move that will see qualified pupils from private primary schools denied entry into the 18 national schools, defining a class struggle that has been simmering in Kenya's competitive education sector for two decades.?

Johannesburg: Much has been written about the National Senior Certificate (NSC) and its predecessor, the Senior Certificate, over the years. In relation to the last year's NSC, it might be helpful to group the issues into three overlapping but distinct categories of concern: have the results been?

Johannesburg: South Africa stands at the beginning of a new political year. The release of the ANC's statement at its 99th birthday celebrations in Polokwane fired the first salvo of party political priorities and electoral politics.Unsurprisingly, the question of job creation in the form of the?

The Huairou Commission AIDS Campaign bridges the gap between what is happening in communities and what happens at the policy level, by ensuring that grassroots women who are leading the fight against AIDS in their communities are represented in decision-making spaces. Women's home-based caregiving?

Addis Ababa: The Federal Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (FEACC) of Ethiopia and the Tanzania-based Kilimanjaro International Organization agreed on Monday in Addis Ababa to carry out a corruption assessment study in Ethiopia. According to the agreement, the assessment will be carried out in?

Nairobi: After mapping various key locations and landmarks in the country, Google is now mapping Korogocho, one of Nairobi's informal settlements. The mapping of Korogocho, an area with about 200,000 people, is meant to make it easier to identify streets, key structures and landmarks that were previously?

As new technologies are driving and reshaping Governments throughout the world by improving public services delivery and engaging citizens Tanzania is yet to fully utilise Information Communication Technology (ICT) because of poor infrastructure, inadequate human capacity and legal framework. The?

Harare: Another senior government official, a Zanu PF deputy minister, has joined the asset-declaration crusade and is keen to present a register of his assets to the Speaker of Parliament, NewsDay has learnt. African Parliamentarians Against Corruption (APNAC) chairman Willias Madzimure said the?

Lilongwe: A network of Malawian non-governmental organisations called NGO Coalition on Child Rights has asked government to show political will to incorporate its submissions on child rights into the second phase of the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS). The network says government should?

Nairobi: Kenya Anticorruption Commission (KACC) is currently investigating another minister over graft, in addition to the four ministers earlier mentioned, including suspended Industrialisation minister Henry Kosgey, who has since been charged in court. According to KACC director Dr PLO Lumumba,?

Lusaka: Publicdiscontent with the mining tax system will only be alleviated if the culture of secrecy around mining is removed to allow for greater transparency, says the Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD). And the CTPD has advised the government to suspend or revoke mining licences of?