The Official Blog of Amb. David H. Shinn

  Discovery Alert , an AI-powered mining news publisher, posted on 19 January 2026 an article titled " China's Yuan Globalisation i...

 Chatham House posted on 15 March 2024 a 35-minute podcast titled " How Gold Fuels the War in Sudan " with Ahmed Soliman, Suliman ...

 The Africa Center for Strategic Studies published on 27 March 2023 an analysis titled " Reclaiming Al-Shabaab's Revenue " by ...

 Kenya's Star published on 4 March 2023 a commentary titled " Why Kenya Can No Longer Make the Goods It Used To " by Godfrey ...

 The Associated Press published on 25 May 2022 an article titled " For New Somalia Government, Al-Shabab a Threat to Authority " ...

The Enough Project published in April 2020 a report titled " The Criminalization of the South Sudan Gold Sector ." South Sudan...

T he ChinAfrica Project posted on 15 November 2019 a 49 minute podcast titled " Chinese Investment and Labor Practices in Ethiopia ...

Ventures Africa posted on 30 May 2019 a story titled " What Embattled African Countries Could Learn from Namibia's Uranium Deal wi...

West Point's CTC Sentinel published in April 2019 an article titled " Reigniting the Rivalry: The Islamic State in Somalia vs. al-...

The Nairobi-based Institute of Economic Affairs published in November 2018 a paper titled " Why Reduction of Illicit Financial Flows th...

The World Bank has just published its Doing Business 2019 for Somalia . The evaluation includes starting a business, dealing with construct...

The World Bank has just published its Doing Business 2019 for Sudan . The evaluation includes starting a business, dealing with constructio...

The World Bank has just published its Doing Business 2019 for South Sudan . The evaluation includes starting a business, dealing with const...

The World Bank has just published its Doing Business 2019 for Kenya . The evaluation includes starting a business, dealing with constructio...

The World Bank has just published its Doing Business 2019 for Djibouti . The evaluation includes starting a business, dealing with construc...

The World Bank has just published its Doing Business 2019 for Eritrea . The evaluation includes starting a business, dealing with construct...

The World Bank has just published its Doing Business 2019 for Ethiopia . The evaluation includes starting a business, dealing with construc...

The World Bank has just released its Doing Business 2019 . It evaluates 190 countries/economies globally, including 54 in Africa. The evalu...

Lima Charlie News posted on 4 February 2018 an article titled " Cobalt Mining, China, and the Fight for Congo's Minerals " by...

The World Bank has just released its annual Doing Business 2018 report. It evaluated 190 countries. Kenya ranked a respectable 80, a modes...