That’s essentially the conclusion of a long piece by Julie Flint and Alex de Waal in the most recent issue of World Affairs Journal about the first Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. They describe his controversial past in Argentina, his media-driven personality, his disastrous management of his office, how he miscalculated with his indictment [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Alex de Waal’
luis moreno ocampo is apparently a piece of work
Posted in Not just about Africa, tagged Alex de Waal, International Criminal Court, Julie Flint, Luis Moreno Ocampo on June 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
New Website: ‘African Arguments Online’
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged African Arguments, Alex de Waal, blogs, Richard Dowden, Royal African Society, SSRC, websites on January 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Spin-off from the book series edited by the British Africanist scholars and activists Alex de Waal and Richard Dowden (titles like the useful Aids and Power and Darfur: A Short History of a Long War, both written by De Waal). The aim with the website is an “… Africa-wide site which provides in-depth analysis and [...]
‘Making sense of Chad’
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alex de Waal, Chad, Christian Science Monitor, coup, rebels, SSRC, Sudan on February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Much of western media coverage of the attempted coup in Chad focus on the plight of foreign nationals fleeing the fighting between the government of Idris Deby and rebel groups. We learn little in this coverage as to what is going on here. This is where the insight of the Social Science Research Council’s Alex de Waal (who maintains a [...]
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