Conflict Trends (no. 33): Real-time analysis of African political violence, January 2015
Welcome to the January issue of the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project’s (ACLED) Conflict Trends report. Each month, ACLED...
Terrorism in Africa: A bigger threat than in Europe, but much less coverage
Are African lives worth less than the lives of people elsewhere in the world? Last week 17 people were killed by terrorists in France....
The twilight of the resource curse?
FOR decades commodity prices have shaped Africa’s economic growth. The continent is home to a third of the planet’s mineral reserves, a...