Results for "Horn of Africa"

The Internet, Social Media Gagging and Participatory Democracy in the Horn of Africa

Governments across the globe seek opportunities at regular intervals to exercise state-power and control over aspects of society. This is not limited to dictatorships and centralized party states alone; the beginning of the internet age saw the conflicts over who has rights over …

Chinese Funded Projects and Open Governance in Kenya

This article examines how Kenyan civil society uses open governance to call for government accountability around debt acquisition from China. Through two case studies, I illustrate how strategic litigation has become a framework through which civil society exercises leadership fr…

The Leadership of Ilhan Omar - Representing voices of refugees

A week after his presidency began in 2017, Donald Trump passed an Executive Order travel ban which became more widely known as the Muslim Ban[1]. The Travel Ban is an executive order that prohibits seven Muslim-majority countries from entering into the United States. The Executiv…

The Africa Mining Vision: A Panacea to the challenges of the African mining sector or another mirage?