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Latest Blog Entries

‘You are being lied to about pirates’ - Johann Hari

Video: Confusion over Guinea coup after president dies - Al Jazeera

Mugabe’s Endgame

Political poison sickening Zimbabwe : Human Rights Watch

‘So Much to Fear’: War Crimes and the Devastation of Somalia

On press freedom in Tunisia

Resist Africom: the movie

‘A major strategic shift in U.S. attention toward’ Africa: New American Foundation

The risk of wider violence in the Central African Republic is today at its highest point since the coup d’état of 2003.

HIV/AIDS: Obama’s easy win

Recent Analysis from ACAS

Zimbabwe: Failing Better?

Mugabe’s Endgame

The Glass Fortress: Zimbabwe’s Cyber-Guerrilla Warfare

Waiting for Power-sharing: A False Promise?

The Zimbabwean Working Peoples: Between a political rock and an economic hard place

ACAS Bulletin 80: Special Issue on the Zimbabwe Crisis - Two

U.S. to Create New Regional Military Command for Africa

Why Is America Marching Into Africa?

Bush administration Security Assistance Programs for Africa

AFRICOM: The New U.S. Military Command for Africa

Events / Meetings

ACAS events at 2008 African Studies Annual Meeting

No Easy Victories - NYC October 20, 2007

ACAS at African Studies Association, October 2007 (photos)

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Video: Confusion over Guinea coup after president dies - Al Jazeera

Resist Africom: the movie

Video: Sporadic fighting in Congo

News: US cuts funding for condoms on Marie Stopes clinics

By ACAS | 6 October 2008

The US government is cutting its funding for the supply of contraceptives to family planning clinics run by Marie Stopes International in Africa, alleging that it condones forced abortions in China.