It is an overall assessment that OSSREA continues to play an important role for the social sciences in the large sub-region. It is important to consolidate ...

Now that South Sudan's self-determination has been realised, long-suppressed grievances and simmering political disputes have re-surfaced, threatening instability on the eve of independence.

Dr. Eddy Maloka is the CEO of the Africa Institute of South Africa. Previously, he was adviser to the former premiers of Mpumalanga and Gauteng, and he has worked closely with president Mbeki. He has written extensively on political and developmental issues in Africa, including the history of the liberation struggle in South Africa. Recently he has also written about the Sudan Peace Process and Africa in the new Millennium.

Read the public address of Gen Salva Kiir Mayardit on his return from the official visit to the United States of America.

The principal objective of the project is to provide new knowledge about changing patterns of gender relations in the informal economies of Western and ...

Nairobi/Brussels, 6 May 2010: If, as likely, South Sudan decides to secede from the North at its January 2011 self-determination referendum, it will need support from Sudan's neighbours to ensure the decision is respected and new conflict is prevented.

The ESAIDARM, a forerunner for MEFMI (The Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute for Southern and Eastern Africa) was launched in 1993. MEFMI ...

Since the early 1990s Southern African countries have seen the transition to multi-party democracies. However, the new democratic dispensation has not ...

The project starts asking if poverty in small scale fisheries really is as serious as one may get the impression of or if some of the misery may be is ...

Analysis of the creation of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in South Yemen based on predominantly Arabic-language sources, and an assessment of ...

Drawing on data we collected in Cotonou (southern Benin) we highlight the importance of magico-religious expenditures within Beninese households. We focus ...

Women in many West African countries are famous for their numerical dominance and powerful organisations in several branches of the informal economy. ...

As the Millennium Development Goals are coming to an end, international actors have started working on a new set of development goals for the global community. Last time around, the majority of the inputs came from institutions in the North. Will the voice of Southern actors be heard this time?

The article addresses the consolidation and rise of the Southern Transitional Council in South Yemen and their push for access to a seat at the table ...

Most governments in Africa, seeing the political mobilisation of ethnicity as a threat, have rejected the use of ethnic differences as an explicit basis ...

Is aid helping or hurting Africa? Pete Ondeng urges for empowerment of people.

Luis Roniger and Mario Sznajder. 1999. The Legacy of Human Rights Violations in the Southern Cone.

Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for ...

"Africa must end the pathology of aid dependence in Africa." Yash Tandon proposes a strategy of increased national and regional 'self-reliance'.

Development interventions and pastoral dynamics in Southern Ethiopia Johan Helland Pastoralists, et