ARI is the UK’s only think-tank to focus exclusively on sub-Saharan Africa. Our work encourages debate, questions orthodoxy and challenges “received wisdom”. We draw attention to actions and ideas that have worked in Africa, and seeks to identify new thinking where needed.
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. ...
