Opinion & Analysis

Dec. 22, 2012
Eritrea: The Fog Over the Red Sea: Eritrea’s strict media control

Eritrea: The Fog Over the Red Sea: Eritrea’s strict media control

This article was written by Armin Rosen, the Atlantic‘s International Channel producer and was originally published here. Eritrean information minister Ali Abdu, who is rumored to have defected this past week, helped build one of the world’s strictest systems of media control. Eritrea sits on some of the most important real estate in Africa, occupying a thin... Read more »

Dec. 15, 2012
What Next?: Ambassador Rice’s Chanceto Rehabilitate Image

What Next?: Ambassador Rice’s Chanceto Rehabilitate Image

It has been quite a week here at Africa Talks. After the Op-Ed titled “Susan Rice and Africa’s Despots” was published on Monday in the New York Times, I have received varied reactions from different sources including journalists in the mainstream media, scholars and diplomats. Many of them came to Ambassador Susan Rice’s defense. But most importantly, the... Read more »