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    Franco–Senegalese relations 2000–2012

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    France’s oldest relationship in sub-Saharan Africa is with Senegal. The French presence in Senegal dates from the 17th century. In the 19th century the Four Communes of Senegal, along with France’s other former colonies, gained the right to send a member of parliament to Paris. Since that time Senegal has occupied a special place in French relations with sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Reconstructing the implications of liberation struggle history on SADC mediation in Zimbabwe

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    Former liberation movements are at the helm of government in Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mozambique, Angola, South Africa and Tanzania. They have maintained close ties rooted in common liberation histories and personal connections, and during times of crisis they draw on these linkages and solidarities.
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    The changing role of civil society in a Middle-Income Country: a case study from India

    Oxfam India, 2011
    In 2008, India met the $1005 level of Gross National Income (GNI) per capita, the World Bank’s threshold to qualify as middle-income country. Other major countries - China, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan -have followed a similar trajectory, the consequence being that most poor now live in middle-income countries.
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    Chinese banking interests in Mozambique

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    Unlike in most other African countries, Chinese financial involvement in Mozambique includes state-owned banks (Export–Import Bank of China – Exim Bank, and the China Development Bank – CDB) and private commercial interests, in the form of Geocapital, a Luso-Chinese fund.
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    Strategies for effective policy advocacy: demanding good governance in Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    This study is based on a research project carried out as part of the Governance and African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Programme of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA).
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    West Africa: Continental engine or brake?

    Fride, 2014
    West Africa is changing and its future direction can influence that of the African continent. As home to Africa’s greatest energy reserves, fastest-growing economies and largest population, and as one of Africa’s best examples of regional integration, West Africa has the potential to drive continental progress.
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    State–civil society relations: the potential contribution of the African Peer Review Mechanism

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is Africa’s home-grown governance promotion and monitoring tool. It has made one of its priorities the involvement of civil society organisations (CSOs) in the assessment of national initiatives.
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    Zambia's constitution-making process

    Institute for Security Studies, 2014
    Zambia’s constitution-making exercise initiated in 2011 is at a critical crossroads because of ambiguities over the modes of validating the draft document, and eventually adopting and enacting the final constitution. Calls from civil society organisations and opposition political parties for the government to establish dialogue mechanisms on the future of the process have gone unheeded.
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    The power of oil: charting Uganda's transition to a petro-state

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2012
    The report investigates the political impacts that oil is likely to have on Uganda. It argues that oil production will have transformative effects on Uganda's local, national and regional political relations.
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    The New Deal's peacebuilding and statebuilding goals and organised crime

    International Alert, 2013
    Organised crime has the potential to further contribute to fragility by intervening in what are often fraught relationships between state and society, as well as between citizens themselves.

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