Country Risk Rating
Zimbabwe
While the main protagonists in the political crisis have continued to trade blows in recent months, food insecurity has worsened to a crisis level. According to the UN, the last maize...
2008-07-22Botswana
According to the latest Worldwide Press Freedom Index compiled by the NGO Reporters Without Borders Botswana's journalists operate in a 'satisfactory' regulatory context, with the...
2008-07-22Malawi
The Mozambique-Malawi Joint Defence and Security Commission has met in Lilongwe to discuss ways of exercising effective control over the two countries' shared border. Not only is...
2008-06-26Namibia
President Hifikepunye Pohamba is coming under increased domestic pressure to sever diplomatic links with Zimbabwe. With ties between the two countries historically close, Pohamba...
2008-06-26Zimbabwe
The current decade has produced a precipitous decline in both political freedom and economic wealth. This is illustrated by the conclusions of the 2008 'failed state' survey compiled...
2008-06-26Zambia
President Levy Mwanawasa, current chairman of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), has stepped up his criticism of Zimbabwe. Speaking in his capacity as SADC chairman,...
2008-06-26South Africa
On the back of the recent outbreak of violence against foreigners, rising instability in Zimbabwe, and further political divisions within the African National Congress (ANC), South...
2008-06-25Botswana
New sources of domestic financing for local companies are a perquisite for reducing unemployment and over-reliance on the state for jobs. The big natural resource projects have little...
2008-06-25
