On the first anniversary of the swearing-in of the devolved Nairobi County government, Edward Paice looks at progress made and the significant challenges that lie ahead.
Dr Funmi Olonisakin suggests five things to remember when researching Africa and encourages researchers to step outside the academic bubble from time to time.
Olivier Milland looks at some of the constitutional revisions presented to President Macky Sall of Senegal that are based on extensive public consultations carried out across the country.
Ahead of the launch event for “Africa’s Urban Revolution”, a new volume from Zed Books, we sat down with the book’s co-editor Susan Parnell to discuss the state of the Africa’s cities.
In this interview with Melanie Archer, Jo Beall comments on the ongoing conflict in South Sudan, explains what is unique about urban violence and dissects myths about African cities.
Hannah Gibson reviews “Africa’s Urban Revolution” and finds it to be a welcome and vital addition to a burgeoning field, presented in a highly readable and engaging manner.
Kieran Holmes est Commissaire général de l’Office burundais des recettes (OBR), une autorité semi-autonome de perception d’impôts. Il est également coauteur d’un rapport, récemment publié par Africa Research Institute (ARI), exposant en détail les réformes de collecte d’impôts et...
In conversation with Jonathan Bhalla, Kieran Holmes discusses how Burundi’s semi-autonomous tax authority has become a model institution but still faces serious financial uncertainty despite its many successes.
Edward Paice reflects on the undesirable effects of interrupting remittance flows to Somalia and the UK government response which lays the blame, wrongly, at the door of Somali money transfer operators.
En mai 2013, la banque anglaise Barclays a annoncé qu’elle fermait les comptes de tous ses 165 clients, sauf 19, qui opèrent dans le secteur de transferts de fonds. Comme d’autres banques anglaises, telle que la HSBC, s’étant déjà considérablement retiré du secteur, l’effet de...
