Institutionalising the politics of ethnicity : actors, power and mobilisation in southern Ethiopia

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) of 2005 provided southern Sudanese with the right to self-determination through a referendum vote that took place ...

The report reviews progress under the Nordic/SADCC Initiative on expanded economic and cultural co-operation btween the Nordic countries and the SADCC ...

(Human rights report no 3/2000)

AMREF is an International health development organization based in Africa. The director Dr. Thomas Nzioki Kibua presents the organisation and its work.

This paper answers questions regarding the future of the SPLMA, examines possible new political alliances between the north and Southern Sudan, and considers the possibility for ethnic violence against Southern Sudanese living in the north if the south secedes.

Security sector reform addresses two main challenges: (1) assisting institutions capable of providing security for the state and its citizens and (2) ...

Political scientist focusing on development and development assistance, rising powers and African development and a strong emphasis on South Africa and Southern Africa.

The Danish Africa Commission recommends a refocused agenda for international development cooperation with Africa. Lars Engberg-Pedersen discusses the main recommendations from the report, then a panel with Kjell Harald Dalen from the Norwegian Foreign Ministry and researchers from CMI debates new directions in the development cooperation with Africa.

How do the emerging South powers promote economic co-operation, trade and investment? And how is development finance and aid provided?

This project is not planned in detail and will be developed further during the first year. The background for the project is twofold: a) That the phenomenal ...

It has been argued that the ambiguities in Malawian customary tenure may aggravate processes of social differentiation and class formation. The article ...

What are the outcomes of ethnic self-rule, in combination with the power politics of an authoritarian regime?

Siri Gloppen, Research Director at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, is the new Head of the Rafto Prize Committee.

The primary aim of the co-operation programme between CMI and the Southern and Eastern African Policy Research Network (SEAPREN) is to build a strong ...

In malaria endemic countries of sub-Saharan Africa, many children develop severe anaemia due to previous and current malaria infections. After blood transfusions ...

Ethiopia has implemented one of the largest, fastest and least expensive land registration and certification reforms in Africa. While there is evidence ...

Representatives from CMI and the University of Malaya signed a Memorandum of Understanding and a Co-operative working Agreement in the Spring of 1999 ...

The Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP) will be the major operational tool for the activities of the SADC regional cooperation initiative. ...

The self-determination process in Sudan is in danger. With ten weeks remaining before a referendum on the possible secession of Southern Sudan, preparations for registration of voters have only just started. In Abyei, where a separate referendum is due to take place, they have not yet begun.