ARI Policy Researcher, Jamie Hitchen spoke to Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv about the forthcoming elections in Liberia. 

ARI policy researcher Jamie Hitchen was a guest on Talking Africa's weekly podcast. The discussion focused on the recent mudslides and flooding in Freetown and possible ways forward.

On 5 October 2017 Dr Joe Abah delivered ARI's 10th anniversary lecture on making public service reform a reality in Nigeria

ARI's Director Edward Paice was quoted by The World Weekly on Kenya's democratic progress in light of the recently annulled election.

Nwamaka Ogbonna argues that for restructuring in Nigeria to work it must be accompanied by wider reforms to address underlying institutional weaknesses and democratic shortcomings

Nick Branson, ARI Senior Researcher, was quoted in an article about Guillaume Soro, President of the National Assembly of Cote d’Ivoire which appears in the September print edition of The Africa Report.

Aly Verjee highlights four trends which may explain the margin by which Uhuru Kenyatta defeated Raila Odinga in Kenya's 2017 elections.

ARI Policy Researcher Jamie Hitchen discusses with RFI how failures to prevent construction in hazard-prone areas contributed to a devastating mudslide in Sierra Leone that killed hundreds

ARI Policy Researcher Jamie Hitchen spoke about some of the underlying urban issues and government inaction which contributed to the deadly floods and mudslides in Freetown, Sierra Leone (in French).

The Thomson Reuters Foundation asked aid organisations, land rights activists and researchers what lessons Sierra Leone can learn from the mudslide to avert such crises in the future. One of those experts was ARI Policy Researcher Jamie Hitchen.