Armed group, mercenaries, mining, power struggles. It’s a familiar story in Africa, sadly.
- Professor of Politics, University of Birmingham
The military takeover and arrest of activists may well bring Sudan’s divided opposition together.
One of the worst humanitarian disasters in decades is well underway in East Africa.
Betrayed by corrupt mismanagement and personalised leadership, the world’s youngest country is in danger of total collapse.
The trial of Chad’s former dictator could provide a template for prosecutions of other African despots. Its success could be seen as a victory for African justice over international approaches.
One of the world’s poorest and most unstable countries is in the midst of a remarkably hopeful election campaign.
The hostage situation at a hotel in the Malian capital Bamako comes after months of sporadic violence.
A week of carnage across northern Nigeria proves Boko Haram is alive and well. Can the Nigerian army get its act together?
The CAR is a phantom state that has barely existed for years. Even with a ten-way peace deal now signed, what future does it have?
There appears to be little chance of a negotiated solution to the chaos tearing the country apart.
The release of Eugene de Kock, former commander of the notorious Vlakplaas counterinsurgency unit responsible for numerous clandestine assassinations in apartheid South Africa, raises a number of critical…
Suspected Boko Haram militants have attacked Northern Cameroon in another escalation of their now regional war against Nigeria, Cameron, Chad and Niger. In a cross-border attack, the militants kidnapped…
Libya has drifted out of our news recently, swamped and obscured by other conflicts. But the repercussions of the NATO intervention, and the subsequent failure of any credible central government to control…
The government of the Central African Republic claims to be in talks with one of the world’s most enigmatic African guerrilla leaders, Joseph Kony. But Kony has entered talks before with no intention of…
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