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Jon Marks will be giving oral evidence in public to the UK's parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee

Tuesday, 21 May, 2013 - 00:00

Cross border Information's Jon Marks will be giving oral evidence in public to the UK's parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday 21st May 2013 (from 2.30 pm, probably on around 3.30), as part of the Committee’s new inquiry into Extremism and political instability in North and West Africa. The session will take place in the Wilson Room, Portcullis House. It will be transmitted live via the internet and may also be recorded...

Thursday, 16 May, 2013 - 00:00

The next year will see the emergence of a new institutional architecture to promote increased electricity generation and access to ‘modern’ fuels across sub-Saharan Africa. Some of the...

Thursday, 9 May, 2013 - 00:00

On 24 April, Kuwait’s prime minister, Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, met some of the country’s leading editors, and – following a “candid, frank and expanded meeting” (in the words of state news agency Kuna) – put the brakes on a controversial media law, which in its current state would seriously undermine press freedom. “If you are against the bill, it will be shelved,” he said, suggesting that consultations between journalists and the government could lead to an amended version.

Friday, 3 May, 2013 - 00:00

For the last eight years AfricaHardball has brought together policy-makers, industry decision-makers and analysts seeking to make sense of the continent’s political volatility and...

Thursday, 2 May, 2013 - 00:00

Biomass producer Buchanan Renewables (BR) has been sold to an investor group, after a project to recycle old rubber trees and rejuvenate Liberia’s once world-leading rubber industry proved...

Thursday, 18 April, 2013 - 00:00

Viewed from Harare, it is business as usual on all fronts: European Union and US sanctions continue to inconvenience President Robert Mugabe and key members of his regime; swathes of the...

Thursday, 11 April, 2013 - 00:00

Any discussion of Saudi politics and business quickly turns to questions about the influence of Al-Saud princes and other key players in the royal pecking order, and who will succeed King...

Thursday, 4 April, 2013 - 00:00

As the economic powerhouse of southern Africa, with a legacy burnished by its emergence two decades ago from apartheid, South Africa is expected to take a leading role in the continent’s...

Thursday, 21 March, 2013 - 00:00

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) finds itself at the centre of another Gulf-related crisis. Following the furore triggered by the UAE’s decision to stop LSE academic...

Thursday, 14 March, 2013 - 00:00

Markets rallied to a narrative of growth and continuity as Jubilee Coalition candidate Uhuru Kenyatta was declared Kenya’s president, beating the Coalition for Reform and Democracy (Cord)...

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