Politique

The cholera epidemic in Haiti: an imported and neglected tragedy

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Demonstration by human rights defenders and victims of the cholera epidemic, October 15, 2015 in Port-au-Prince © AFP/HECTOR RETAMAL It’s all too common to hear dismissive comments about Haiti’s current situation, hasty judgments that portray its inhabitants as solely responsible for their difficulties, or as “idiots”. Such rhetoric often fails to recognize the impact of […]

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When apartheid made Palestine an eminently SouthAfrican affair.

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On May 10, Pretoria once again appealed to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) “to put an end to the Israeli military operation in Gaza”, which it considers to be aggravating the “genocide” already underway there. This South African complaint comes just a few days after the organization of “the first world anti-apartheid conference for

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Between success and disillusionment, the disappointing results of Planned cities in Africa. 

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Planned cities are becoming increasingly common on the African continent, especially since 2000. Not that there weren’t any before this date – Yamoussoukro and Nouakchott are proof of the opposite – but simply that more than half of all planned cities recorded in Africa between 1960 and the present day have emerged since the turn

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CFA Franc: deconstructing ideas to refocus the economic debate. 

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Although often criticized as a tool of French domination, the CFA franc (FCFA) is still the currency of many of France’s former colonies. This article looks beyond symbolic issues to show that the FCFA is part of a monetary strategy which, while open to debate, is economically coherent for these states.

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