The formation of a new administration is always an exciting time. It is an opportunity to seek innovative ideas that will help in the achievement of prosperity for Kenya. In consideration of the country’s foreign policy needs, the Office of the President should consider the appointment of special rapportuers in foreign policy....
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Richard Stupart reflects on the lessons that the CAR imbroglio has for South Africa's military and society in the future.
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“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.”
-Albert Einstein
A curious element of mature democracies is how political parties or movements deal with electoral loss. It cannot be ignored that many...
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An integral aspect of institutional changes taking place in Kenya are the ongoing security sector reforms. Individual liberties and extended freedoms have been guaranteed by an advanced Bill of Rights in the Constitution of Kenya 2010. This is bound to transform the republic’s perspectives on the precautions, safeguards and...
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Rape in South Africa is unacceptably high. Abominably so.
Not that there would ever be a level of rape that could be considered acceptable – ours is just so fantastically brutal as to occupy an entirely different and altogether elevated strata of the savage things that we are capable of doing to one another. But this is not a...
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The thing about Koffi Annan’s recent statement on Kenya was the sense one got of his “finger wagging”. Being a career diplomat he obviously did not do it literally but you got the clear meaning of it from the tone of his remarks. In an interview with the BBC, Annan remarked that Kenya’s “external relations could be...
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