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How violence in Libya impacts the oil industry
Politics, power, and oil are tightly intertwined in Libya. To control oil is to hold power, thereby making Libya’s oil infrastructure a hotbed of conflict and violence. Libya’s complicated political landscape is d...
The Relevance of Youth Leagues, Subsidies and Agencies in South Africa
Recent events in the course of South Africa’s social and political process have led many to pose the question as to whether youth leagues, agencies and subsidies are still useful. And indeed, such a question has been raised w...
WATCH: This is What Torture Really Looks Like
As Ramadan begins, more than 100 hunger-strikers in Guantánamo Bay continue their protest. More than 40 of them are being force-fed. A leaked document sets out the military instructions, or standard operating procedure, for fo...
Chile’s fight against nature: Floods and forest fires engulf the country
If there is a powerful opponent it is certainly nature. So far this year, Chile has been living tough times. The South American country has struggled with damages provoked by unpredictable and devastating weather. Flash floods ...
Why Can’t Madagascar Settle on an Election Date?
Four years since a military takeover plunged the country into political crisis in 2009, Madagascar cannot seem to find a way out. One of the critical steps in the consensus road map [fr], an agreement signed by the head ...
All That Glitters: Tunisian Democratic Exception?
Media coverage of the MENA region is plagued by blanket statements and superficial analyses. International news outlets reserve even the right to name events. The so-called ‘Arab Spring’ is an example of a de facto ...
