President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s decision to double the price of petrol shows very poor judgement and bad leadership.
- Founding Director of Program on Intrastate Conflict, Harvard Kennedy School
Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration is struggling to overcome the national economic destruction wreaked on Zimbabwe over two decades under Robert Mugabe.
Zimbabwe’s new leader needs to shake off his infamous reputation and the suspicion that he is merely another Mugabe in a younger frame.
Western commentators tend to see ISIS and al-Qaida attacks as fueled by ideology. But in Africa, such attacks are more often turf wars in the illicit drug trade.
China’s economy has continued to slow despite efforts by its leaders to give it a boost, which is very bad news for an increasingly dependent Africa.
A new method measures the hard data that makes it possible to distinguish which governments actually deliver results from those that don’t.
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