Africa is a continent overflowing with various civil conflicts, from the desert of Darfur in Sudan to the Niger Delta in Nigeria and recently the Arab Revolt in North Africa.  Africa is a continent in tears due to the bloodshed spilt by its people.  Natural resources and primary commodities are strongly linked to civil wars that are occurring in Africa.   Yet it is wise to point that not all civil conflicts are resource based.  There was the ethnic violence in Rwanda in 1994 which left more t...

The realm of international and regional governance is one that is often plagued by conflictual interests and budgetary constraints. The United Nation’s framework of international governance is considered to be the most efficient, particularly when this framework has a regional partner. This regional body or partner is essentially a regional duplicate of the original United Nations (UN) model. 

The aims and objectives of the UN are primarily to ensure and maintain international peace and s...

African States are usually analysed under a common umbrella of continued instability and strong man politics. This is often an accurate description of many African political configurations; however political analysts often make the mistake of categorising all African states in the same light. In light of this, it is important to have an informed analogy of African politics by analysing the history and political dynamics of individual African states. A political definition of Dysfunction would...

On 17 December, 2010 a series of street demonstrations broke out in Tunisia, it soon engulfed the entire nation; soon it was a full-blown revolution. Scholars and reporters have dubbed it the Jasmine Revolution, in comparison to the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia that infamously created a domino-effect, spreading all through Eastern Europe in 1989 (All Africa, 2011). The reasons for the uprising have been cited as unemployment, food inflation, corruption, freedom of speech, poor livi...

Only seven weeks into the New Year, yet so much activism and hunger for change has presided all over Africa; both regionally as well as at the local level. On the regional level, a nascent revolution, manifested in a surge of public demonstrations, now marks the Northern region of Africa. This movement is proving to be contagious, and is influencing all those neighbouring the riotous states.

The uprising can be traced to the West African state of Ivory Coast, aka Cote D’ivoire, where the...

Located in North Africa and flanked by Egypt to the north and Ethiopia to the east, Sudan is predominantly the biggest country in the African continent. British colonial powers partitioned the country in two when it decreed in the 1920’s that Northern and Southern Sudan should remain separate. The initiative behind this arrangement was to keep the Islamic population to the North, while the South is predominantly more Christian and culturally leaning towards that of Kenya and Uganda (Gettlem...

The political definition of a partition fails to capture the essence of the act; however the law definition seems to capture the act more appropriately.  It is defined as a term used in the law of real property to describe an act, by a court order or otherwise, to divide up a concurrent estate into separate portions representing the proportionate interests of the tenants. One could argue that the above mentioned definition is of particular importance to Sudan because the people of the South h...