Rearming CAR’s Forces: A Way out of the Abyss?
As international forces scrambled to provide security for the visit of Pope Francis to the Central African Republic (CAR) over the...
France's evolving African diplomacy
Over the past two weeks, fundamentalist attacks have spread terror from Beirut to Tunis and from Bamako to Paris. The Islamic State of...
Mali Bamako hotel attack shows the country's continuing need for French military help
Francois Hollande’s visit turned into a wonderful party. The people of Timbuktu put on their most colourful clothes, danced to and sang...
Burundi: How to Deconstruct Peace
Burundi is back in the spotlight of the world’s media and the agenda of the United Nations Security Council. As recently as two years...
UNHCR: ' We can't cope with mass Burundian refugee influx in Tanzania'
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has warned that heavy rains, flooding and a spike in new arrivals could threaten...
Rwanda says Burundi leaders 'killing own people'
Rwanda's president has accused Burundi's leaders of killing their own people as human rights activists accuse security forces of killing...
Burundi violence: US to place sanctions on officials
The United States is to put sanctions on four current and former officials in Burundi in connection with the continuing violence there....
Mali's president doubts al-Mourabitoun role in attack
Mali's president has questioned claims that al-Mourabitoun, an al-Qaeda-linked group, was responsible for last week's assault on a luxury...
World’s Deadliest? Boko Haram and the Challenge of Quantifying Violence
As French President Francois Hollande decried the so-called Islamic State’s (ISIS)November 13th Paris attacks as an act of war, a...
A look at Mali's Islamic extremist groups
The competing claims by the Macina Liberation Front and Al-Mourabitoun to have carried out Friday's attack on the Radisson Blu hotel in...
