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The media is the message: The case of Egypt’s e-diplomacy
Written by Victor Salama
Thursday, 27/01/2011. This date could have marked the unfortunate and blunderous beginnings of Egypt’s e-Diplomacy. Egyptian authorities have ordered a total blackout on all digital communications (internet and smartphones) in order to stem the growing calls for protests in the street to topple former President Hosni Moubarak. The blackout went […]
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Nigeria: One year on, Chibok is still a sad story…
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
I remember Monday the 14th of April 2014 like it was yesterday, waking up to the horrible news about yet another bomb blast, this time in the super busy Nyanya Motor Park. The explosion went off inside a car about 6.55am, the period with the highest traffic in the area as […]
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The Mediterranean Migration Crisis Part One: The Picture and the Thousand Words
Written by Dragos C. Costache
If there is a word for the week of April 13th 2015, that word is tragedy. Not just a tragedy for the more than one thousand migrants and asylum seekers that drowned in search of a better life in Europe, not just a tragedy for their families, but a tragedy […]
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Bloody Year: What Have the Separatists Achieved?
Written by Oleg Shynkarenko
On the 7th of April 2014 a mob of people occupied the regional council building in the Eastern Ukraine city of Donetsk and proclaimed independence as the Donetsk People Republic (DNR). At the time, most people looked at it like a joke, calling the new republic “Our Local Vatican”. The […]
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An empty house of freedom – the two paradoxes of Kosovo
Written by Mateusz Mazzini
Seven years after it gained independence, the country that numerous Western countries once fought for is now facing an unprecedented exodus of its people. And they might have nowhere to go. At first, their reasons for leaving do not differ much from a standard answer sheet coming from migrants all […]
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Why Ghana’s IMF Bailout May Soon Repeat Itself
Written by Charles Mensah
Recently, in one of my economics classes, a heated discussion erupted on Ghana’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout programme. The discussion comes at a time when the country is grappling with high inflation, continuous depreciation of the cedi against major international currencies and high fiscal deficits which have seen the economy go through an […]
