Africa's urban planners face huge corruption pressures: some answers
The majority of planners believe that land is captured with impunity by powerful interest groups in Zambia and South Africa.
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The majority of planners believe that land is captured with impunity by powerful interest groups in Zambia and South Africa.
Two new reports investigate how political leaders are subverting constitutional rule and handing power to business cronies, Call them illiberal democracies, elective dictatorships or 'no-party' politics, the global tide of authoritarianism with constitutional characteristics has been welcomed, sometimes pioneered, by some governments in Africa.
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Since the mid-twentieth century China and India have entertained a difficult relationship, erupting into open war in 1962. Shadow States is the first book to unpack Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of competitive state-building - through a study of their simultaneous attempts to win the approval and support of the Himalayan people. When China and India tried to expand into the Himalayas in the twentieth century, their lack of strong ties to the region and the absence of an easily enforceable border made their proximity threatening - observing China and India's state-making efforts, local i...
India wants to counter China’s mega dam plans by building its own. It is a bad idea States of the North East have had to pay the price of the belligerence between the two countries. The Zangmu Hydropower Station across the Yarlung Zangbo/Brahmaputra river in Gyaca county in Lhoka, Tibet. | AFP While Indian and Chinese troops face each other in Ladakh, the water war between the two countries has flared up again in the eastern sector. Both nations have pulled out their favourite weapon: big dams. It began in the last week of November, when the president of Power Constructio...