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Showing posts with label good governance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label good governance. Show all posts
Tuesday, 16 June 2020

Fighting for a changed approach to security in conflict zones

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Following what I wrote yesterday about the national armies in some of the Sahelian countries – that their low operational capacity is one...
Monday, 15 June 2020

The Europeans and the Sahel: a fake dialogue

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A ministerial meeting of the International Coalition for the Sahel was held on Friday, 12 June 2020 and co-chaired by Mauritania, the EU ...
Sunday, 19 January 2020

Large-scale corruption

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Today’s revelations about Isabel dos Santos, the Angolan entrepreneur and the richest woman in Africa, just confirm a few things I keep r...
Sunday, 14 April 2019

Algeria and Sudan

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Algeria and Sudan mean good news. It is so rewarding to have positive developments in these two countries. People are in the streets, fig...
Wednesday, 20 March 2019

Europe and Africa

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In my discussion today with senior EU officials, I asked them  to take home 7 major issues: 1.      Population explosion  .   State l...
Saturday, 23 July 2016

Brief note on the EU Global Strategy

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In the future, the EU development cooperation policy cannot just be focused on governance, security and human rights. These three domains ...
Friday, 13 May 2016

Still on corruption: aid transparency

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Aid transparency ranking: Data compiled in the Aid Transparency Index and released  by Publish What You Fund in April 2016. Only 10 d...
Sunday, 13 March 2016

Poland is a key country within the EU

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There is no doubt regarding the political legitimacy of the new Polish government, led by the Law and Justice Party (PiS). The voters gave...
Friday, 16 October 2015

Time to focus on Angola´s democratization

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Angola does not attract a lot of media attention. It is an important country in its part of the world, because of its size, wealth and mil...
Saturday, 19 September 2015

Burkina Faso must return to the democratic path

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Burkina Faso is one of the better educated countries in West Africa. And its population is young and dynamic. There is in addition a good ...
Sunday, 2 November 2014

Africa´s development priorities

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I wrote an opinion piece today to emphasize how important is for the international community to focus on the development challenges of Afr...
Monday, 15 September 2014

The UN General Assembly is now around the corner

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The annual session of the UN General Assembly is about to start. The agenda is diversified and it includes the new global approach to the ...
Thursday, 28 February 2013

To know when it is time to exit

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It would be unfair to ignore Pope Benedict XVI on the day that marks the end of his papacy. From a leadership point of view, Benedict XVI...
Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Good governance in Afghanistan

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I spent part of the afternoon in a public discussion about the future of Afghanistan after the departure of ISAF, the international milit...
Friday, 15 February 2013

Today's word in Spain

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There is one word in today’s Spain that has plenty of currency among the ordinary people. It is a word that expresses the disgust and dis...
Sunday, 7 December 2008

Fashion, peace and love

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Copyright V.Ângelo Peace and love are back in Sierra Leone, West Africa. And the fashion houses, like this one in Makeni, the headquarters t...