Africa Center Commentary & Analysis

Through high-level relationships and a track record of well-respected analysis, the Africa Center speaks directly to the stakeholders who matter, shaping policy on the foremost issues of this dynamic continent.

New Atlanticist

Jul 26, 2012

Where are the Kingston Trio when you need them?

By Harlan Ullman

Where is the Kingston Trio when needed? For those who may not recall or weren’t born then, the group was a singing sensation of the late 1950s and early 1960s, so much so that the Trio achieved cult status. Their 1959 hit, “They’re Rioting in Africa (The Merry Minuet)” was eerily prescient of today in […]

North Africa

Event Recap

Jul 20, 2012

Roundtable with South African Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development

By Adrienne Chuck

The Michael S. Ansari Africa Center hosted a luncheon roundtable today with the Honourable Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe, minister of justice and constitutional development of the Republic of South Africa. The minister, who is a member of the National Executive Committee and National Working Committee of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), also serves as head […]

South Africa

Event Recap

Jul 17, 2012

Briefing on Somalia by UN Monitoring Group

By Adrienne Chuck

The Michael S. Ansari Africa Center hosted a breakfast briefing and discussion today on the political and security situation in Somalia and the Greater Horn of Africa by the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea.

Somalia
Managing Societal Fault Lines in Twenty-First Century Africa

Event Recap

Jun 14, 2012

Managing Societal Fault Lines in Twenty-First Century Africa

By Adrienne Chuck

The Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center hosted a discussion on ‘Managing Societal Fault Lines in Twenty-First Century Africa.”

Africa

Event Recap

May 31, 2012

The crisis in northern Mali

By Africa Center

The Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, in partnership with the Carnegie Middle East Program, hosted a discussion on The Crisis in Northern Mali: Implications for a Region in Flux at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace earlier today. Speaking on the panel moderated by Ansari Center director J. Peter Pham were Rudolph Atallah, […]

Crisis Management Sahel
Counter-Piracy Task Force: Adaptive Approaches and Future Challenges

Event Recap

May 24, 2012

Counter-Piracy Task Force: Adaptive Approaches and Future Challenges

By Adrienne Chuck

On May 24, the Atlantic Council’s International Security Program and the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center hosted the fifth and final meeting of the Atlantic Council Maritime Piracy Task Force, chaired by Atlantic Council Board Director Franklin D. Miller.

Maritime Security Security & Defense
Ansari Africa Center Hosts Visit by ACCORD Delegation

Event Recap

May 8, 2012

Ansari Africa Center Hosts Visit by ACCORD Delegation

By Adrienne Chuck

The Michael S. Ansari Africa Center hosted a visit today by a delegation from the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), led by its founder and executive director Vasu Gounden and accompanied by senior advisor Aziz Pahad, former Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of South Africa, and Ambassador Welile Nhlapo, National […]

New Atlanticist

May 7, 2012

In Sudan, Give War a Chance

By Gerard Prunier

Less than a year after South Sudan declared its independence, it appears headed for war once again with its northern neighbor, Sudan. At the same time, marginalized northerners are rebelling against the government of Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir. The international community has called for a cease-fire and peace talks, but the return of violence […]

East Africa Sudan

New Atlanticist

Apr 27, 2012

An Incomplete Justice

By Peter Pham

The verdict delivered Thursday against Charles G. Taylor for crimes against humanity ends a saga that began on Christmas Eve 1989, when Mr. Taylor and a group of Libyan-trained followers invaded Liberia, igniting a regional conflagration that eventually engulfed parts of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Ivory Coast. Although Mr. Taylor’s conviction, by a special tribunal […]

North & West Africa
Getting Zimbabwe (and Africa) Back on Track

Event Recap

Apr 19, 2012

Getting Zimbabwe (and Africa) Back on Track

By Adrienne Chuck

The Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center hosted a discussion with the Right Honourable Tendai Biti, MP, Minister of Finance of the Republic of Zimbabwe and Secretary-General of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), on the progress of the country’s economic recovery and moving out of its current political impasse. He also drew out […]

South & Central Africa
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