Nick Branson provided live reaction to Emmerson Mnangagwa’s first public appearance since returning to Zimbabwe, ahead of his inauguration as president.
Jamie Hitchen, policy researcher at Africa Research Institute was a guest on Channel Africa's African Dialogue show to discuss presidential age limits in Uganda
ARI policy researcher Jamie Hitchen was a guest on Talking Africa's weekly podcast. The discussion focused on the recent mudslides and flooding in Freetown and possible ways forward.
Nick Branson, ARI Senior Researcher, was quoted in an article about Guillaume Soro, President of the National Assembly of Cote d’Ivoire which appears in the September print edition of The Africa Report.
ARI Policy Researcher Jamie Hitchen discusses with RFI how failures to prevent construction in hazard-prone areas contributed to a devastating mudslide in Sierra Leone that killed hundreds
ARI Policy Researcher Jamie Hitchen spoke about some of the underlying urban issues and government inaction which contributed to the deadly floods and mudslides in Freetown, Sierra Leone (in French).
The Thomson Reuters Foundation asked aid organisations, land rights activists and researchers what lessons Sierra Leone can learn from the mudslide to avert such crises in the future. One of those experts was ARI Policy Researcher Jamie Hitchen.
Jamie Hitchen, ARI's Policy Researcher , told AFP that poor urban planning had been a problem for years in Freetown, but that the government response had "broadly been one of inaction".
