In the News: Gates on Humanitarianism
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has released its 2014 Gates Annual Letter, which spells out the foundation’s view of “three myths that block progress for the poor”: poor […]
In the News
The CIHA Blog’s commentary on recent news pieces about events in Africa.
In the News: The Aid and Development Debate Redux
The CIHA Blog previously posted about Nina Monk‘s new book, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty. A few months later, William Easterly, a professor […]
In the News: CAR Interfaith Peacebuilding Efforts
Out of the Central African Republic comes reports of increasing human rights violations and recruitment of child soldiers for sectarian fighting between Muslim and Christian militias. Yet Nyeko […]
In the News: South Sudan’s Struggle
Barely two-and-a-half years old, South Sudan is now seeing political rivalries flare up, pushing the country into crisis. Rebel armies have taken over the oil-producing region, which will hardly improve […]
In the News: Mandela in Remembrance
We at The CIHA Blog join the world in our sadness to hear of former South African President Nelson Mandela’s death. Madiba’s life embodied all types of struggle for justice, […]
In the News: Grading Aid and What Works
Writer Paul Theroux, in “Africa’s Aid Mess” for Barron’s, delves into the history of debates over Western aid to Africa, from Charles Dickens to Bill Gates. “The desire of […]
In the News: What Will Help Africa Rise?
The economic and demographic prowess of Africa alone may not necessarily be the turnaround strategy for the continent, as Jay Naidoo argues in the article ‘Africa Rising? Whose Africa?‘ […]
In the News: Sudan’s struggle for peace
In “Sudan’s Struggle for Peace” for Foreign Policy Magazine (Middle East Channel), University of California, Santa Cruz professor Mark Fathi Massoud analyzes recent protests in Sudan by placing them […]