Bribery and buying favours: why Uganda's MPs want longer terms
Aug 13, 2018 14:32 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Ugandas Constitutional Court has removed the constitutional age-limit for presidential candidacy. It was previously 75. As a result, President Yoweri Museveni who has been in office since 1986 and is 73 years old can now...
South Africans differ on land reform. But there needs to be a meeting of minds
Aug 13, 2018 14:32 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
President Cyril Ramaphosas late night announcement that the government was going to push ahead with implementing a decision taken by the African National Congress (ANC) at its national conference last year to expropriate...
Australian media are playing a dangerous game using racism as currency
Aug 13, 2018 14:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
It has been quite a week for race-laden discourse in the Australian media. There was Blair Cottrell, a notorious pro-Hitler extremist, appearing on Sky News and calling for a race-based immigration policy. There was...
Women's electability rises in Indonesia's 2018 local elections
Aug 13, 2018 14:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The third round of regional elections (Pilkada) in Indonesia, held on June 27 2018, showed an increase in womens electability as local political leaders. Of 94 women who ran for local government offices, 31 (33%) were...
Why Trump shouldn't leverage the government's emergency oil supply to bolster the GOP
Aug 13, 2018 13:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
President Donald Trump has publicly griped about the prices of oil and gasoline, which are at their highest levels in four years. If oil supplies were to suddenly grow, those prices might well decline. That is why,...
Burqa comments like Boris Johnson's are pushing Muslims to reassert their identity
Aug 13, 2018 13:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Boris Johnsons inflammatory remarks about women who wear the burqa have sparked outrage and fierce debate on an issue that was already highly emotive. Since the European Union referendum, community relations between...
Why Indonesia and Timor Leste should involve indigenous people in border dispute talks
Aug 13, 2018 13:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The governments of Indonesia and Timor Leste should include indigenous people in border dispute negotiations between the two countries. The indigenous community of Ambenu people in Timor Leste has kinship ties with the...
Trade War Escalates: China Strikes Back