Tag Archives: Africa

The whirlwind process by which the international community, ranging from the Arab League, European Union, and, most critically, the United Nations, laid the legal foundations approving the military intervention in Libya is nothing short of breathtaking. The adoption of Resolution 1973 on March 17 by the United Nations Security Council (which notably was not vetoed [...]

Since he rose to power in a military coup in 1969, Libya’s once-permanent leader Col. Moammar Gaddafi has certainly seen his ups and downs, from the controversies of Black September and Lockerbie, to his post-9/11 thaw and re-entry into the global economy.  But nothing compares to existential threat he has faced as a result of [...]

[Editor's note: We're pleased to feature another special contribution from Huda Seif-Gerard, a scholar and human rights activist currently based in Brussels. Between January 2008 and February 2010, she served as Political Advisor for the European Union Special Representative (EUSR) for Sudan. In 2006-2007, she also served as Governance and Gender Advisor with UNDP's Rule [...]

What has been termed as the first successful toppling of a president by Twitter, or, alternatively, the first government to collapse as a result of Wikileaks, the events in Tunisia were given a new name over the weekend:  The Jasmine Revolution.  Somehow it feels that merely bestowing the mass mobilization is the same as issuing [...]

The following article on the situation in Tunisia was contributed to this blog by the academic Huda Seif. As the international community watches carefully the intense events of political upheavals and public appraisal that are currently unfolding in Tunisia, one cannot help but reflect on the root causes that led to such desperate public political [...]

Against all odds, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) has just concluded one of the most successful presidential elections in recent African history, bringing a country which has teetered on the edge of crisis for more than a decade a step closer to implementing a democratically elected civilian government.  The process has been described as “the most [...]

During my last trip to Kenya on the Georges Tadonki trial, I had the opportunity to develop an association with the lawyer Evans Monari of Daly & Figgis Advocates (photo – center), who is one of the best known business and human rights lawyers in East Africa.  Below is an article Evans has contributed for [...]