Economic gloom in Europe and North America will slow African growth next year and may spark more challenges to incumbent regimes
For many African countries, the West’s economic travails will translate into spiralling food and fuel prices, higher unemployment and less state spending on education and health. The rumbling Eurozone crisis and the United States’ debt-burdened economy will not necessarily divert Africa from its more positive growth path but may slow its rate of progress, given its direct and indirect (via China) dependence on trade with the industrialised West (see Chart).
The war in Somalia gives President Mwai Kibaki’s government a leading role for which it looks ill-prepared
Six weeks into the fighting, unintended consequences haunt Kenya’s invasion of Somalia: rising xenophobia, terrorist attacks in Nairobi and other local insecurity, and changes in E...
Ethiopian troops have gone into Somalia to support the Kenyan deployment, although Prime Minister Meles Zenawi remains sceptical about the operation. Ethiopia wants to maintain its...
