News highlights, late October 2016

AU and the maritime charter:

http://www.france24.com/en/20161016-african-union-leaders-sign-historic-maritime-charter-piracy-smuggling-illegal-fishing?ref=tw_i

Rwanda, health policy and drones:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/10/13/in-rwanda-life-saving-blood-now-drops-from-the-sky/?tid=sm_tw

US and AMISOM –covert operations:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/world/africa/obama-somalia-secret-war.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0

The UK and the Mau Mau:

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/may/22/mau-mau-kenya-compensation-lawsuit-high-court

Exploitation of palm oil in Liberia:

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/oct/20/liberia-africa-palm-oil-frontier-communities-land-gvl-plantations-sinoe-county

News highlights, early December 2015

ICG on Burundi:

http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/publication-type/alerts/2015/burundi-conflict-alert.aspx?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=sm&utm_campaign=burundi-5nov15

Kony, LRA, Uganda:

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/joseph-kony-and-mutiny-in-the-lords-resistance-army

Mali in 2015:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/06/our-guitars-are-our-kalashnikovs-the-musicians-who-helped-save-mali/?utm_content=buffer04cc1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TX7ybW6nAQ

Land grab:

http://www.irinnews.org/report/94680/west-africa-the-downside-of-foreign-land-acquisitions#at_pco=smlwn-1.0&at_si=564227420c5aab42&at_ab=per-2&at_pos=0&at_tot=1

Problems in Somaliland:

https://www.issafrica.org/iss-today/think-again-is-somaliland-still-a-good-news-story

News highlights, late November 2015

EU plans on migration 2015:

http://www.irinnews.org/report/102148/refugee-crisis-another-summit-another-action-plan

Violence, Education, DRC:

https://www.hrw.org/node/282419

EU and fisheries:

http://www.euractiv.com/sections/global-europe/eu-paid-600-too-much-foreign-fish-auditors-find-318694

Gender, Violence, United Nations:

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/nov/09/un-must-make-good-on-its-resolution-to-protect-women-against-wartime-violence

Copper mines in the US:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/25/magazine/100000003990592.app.html?_r=2