Laboratoire Central Vétérinaire, Km 8, Route de Koulikoro, B. P. 2295, Bamako, Mali. African Union, Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources, Kenindia Business Park, Museum Hill, Westlands Rd, P. O. Box 30786-00100 Nairobi, Kenya. PACE-Mali, B. P. E1459, Bamako, Mali. FAO-ECTAD (Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases) Unit, Regional Animal Health Center (RAHC), Africa Union Building...

DUEUNG THE lATE apartheid era, the South African economy was both weakened by sanctions and disinvestment, and sheltered by the then government's protectionist policies. Democratization has brought with it both the lifting of embargos, and the phasing out of tariff barriers and decentralization incentives, which offered substantial state subsidies for industries located near the former bantusta...

This article examines the African Standby Force (ASF), an African-led mechanism for crisis management and peace consolidation in Africa, and its potential contribution to multilayered security governance. It analyses the ASF project, which has gone through many phases of redefinition since it was conceived in the late 1990s and elaborates on the inability of African stakeholders to settle on a ...

The experience of the South African independent unions underscores some of the complexities of union growth and decline. Whilst, as predicted in the literature, there is some relationship between institutional changes, economic trends, and long term structural change, it is clear that causal relationships are both complex and interrelated. Indeed, closer qualitative analysis of organizational t...

Animal trypanosomiasis is a true obstacle holding back cattle rearing in countries infested by tsetse flies. Yet, such animal production is crucial for the food security of numerous African populations, providing milk, meat, but also manure, work and economic capital. A Pan-African campaign to eradicate tsetse flies and trypanosomosis (PATTEC) was launched by the African Union in 2001. CIRAD an...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the European Union, the Southern African Development Community and the Union of South American Nations have increasingly been involved in health diplomacy in the past decade, yet little is known about how they frame health as a foreign policy issue and how this has an impact on their prioritisation of policies. For this, we conducted a review of exist...