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.
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". ...
ARI Policy Researcher Jamie Hitchen was quoted by Quartz Africa talking about the failure of political action to address underlying urban issues in Freetown in light of recent mudslides and flooding. ...
This article, in French, cites ARI's blog about flooding in Freetown in 2015 and points out that many of the underlying causes in 2015 were the same as in 2017. ...
