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087406
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2009.
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The United States and China are the two most important bilateral, external actors in Africa today. While the United States wields more influence in most of Africa's fifty-three countries, China has surpassed it in a number of states and is challenging it in others.
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ID:
087411
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2009.
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Between 1998 and 2002, Africa was the region with the highest number of major armed conflicts compared on average eight distinct major armed conflicts each year during this five year period. These conflicts brew in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Darfur region of Sudan and Somalia. The existence of armed non-state groups in the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, as well as the high levels of firearms crime and violence in urban centers in Kenya and South Africa remains a critical humna security concern.
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087423
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2009.
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As the African Union (AU) moves toward its tenth anniversary in 2012, it is drawing a great deal of attention to its handling of mounting crises that test its commitment. Across the continent, the AU is faced with crises that test its commitment and capability to fulfill the ambitious agenda it adopted at its formation in 2002.
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087441
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2009.
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Untill 2008, thanks to domestic policy reforms, external assistance and high commodity prices, most of the economies of sub-Saharan Africa experienced sustained and accelerating growth for over a decade. Poverty was declining, health and education indicators were improving- albeit from a low base and there were sighs that Africa's HIV/AIDS prevalence rate had begun to decline.
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087440
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2009.
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Zimbabwe offers an example of the way ordinary citizens in Africa are using information technologies to express and demand genuine individual freedoms.
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087429
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2009.
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Governance is performance the delivery of high quality of political goods to citizens by governments of all kinds. In Africa, as everywhere else, those political goods are security and safety, rule of law, participation and human rights, sustainable economic opportunity and human development.
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ID:
087420
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2009.
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On 14 July 2008, after much advance publicity and fanfare, the procecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, applied for a warrant of arrest against the president of Sudan, Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bahsir, on charges that included conspiracy to commit genocide along with other war crimes.
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087438
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2009.
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Kenya is a critically important East African counrty at a crossroads. In the coming years, it will either chart a way through to democratic reform and state building, or it will join the ranks or the so-called collapsed or failed states.
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ID:
087408
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2009.
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The threat of maritime piracy exists in the Horn of Africa as a result of the desperate situation in Somalia and the devastated political economy along the coastline. Ina an area where one attack can yield $10,000 for a working level pirate, such criminal activities have flourished
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ID:
087404
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2009.
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The election of Barack Obama as president of the United States has aroused expectations around the world, but nowhere as much as in Africa. Obama inherits a record of achivement on the continent from George W. Bush that will be hard to match, if not exceed. He will also be far more heavily engaged elsewhere in the world than in Africa, with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the nuclear threat from Iran, problems encopassing Russia and the worldwide economic crisis.
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ID:
087436
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2009.
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Journalism in Africa has come far in recent decades. The decline of one party dictatorships, which traditionally kept a grip on the press, has brought about rapid changes.
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ID:
087442
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2009.
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Religion is not often pursued as a source of engagement in the international discourse on development.
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087405
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2004.
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Since 2001, the United States has dramatically increased its commited to development in Africa and has transformed tha way it is implemented. In the last eight years, U. S. foreign assistance to sub-Saharan Africa managed by the state department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has increased by $5.5 billion, or 340 precent. An additional $3.8 billion has been provided through Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) compacts, ten of which has been signed with sub-Saharan African countries since 2004.
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