One year on, where are the Chibok schoolgirls?
On April 14, 2014, nearly 300 girls were abducted at midnight from their school, Federal Government Girls College, Chibok, in Borno...
Cote d’Ivoire: Identity, Politics, and Armed Conflict
Between 2002 and 2011, conflicts in Cote d’Ivoire were typically fought over ethnic, regional, and religious identity, land, and...
Nigeria’s 2015 Presidential Election: Will there be Large-scale Violence?
Since 2010, northern Nigeria has been racked by a violent Islamist insurgency that was exacerbated by the 2011 presidential contest,...
Post Arab-Spring State Building and Security and Stability in Tunisia
The Arab Spring, a series of anti-authoritarian, pro-democracy revolts in the Arab world, started innocuously in Tunisia. Mohamed...
Political Transformation and Security and Stability in West Africa's Guinea
For over four decades, the Republic of Guinea, the first country in Francophone Africa to gain independence and the world’s second...
Boko Haram: Framing an Islamist Insurgency
The Nigerian government has been engaged in a narrative struggle with Boko Haram in order to win popular support and end the insurgency....
An Oasis of Stability in a Sea of Turbulence: Has Senegal anything but Stability to look Forward to?
Senegal, a country of 13.5 million people, is considered one of Africa’s strongest democracies. It has successfully transitioned from one...
Nigeria’s Niger Delta: Is the Fragile Peace Holding?
Recent events in Nigeria suggest that the potential for major resurgence of violence in the delta is extremely high. The central dynamic...
Boko Haram: Anatomy of an Islamist Rebellion
The seeming intractibility of the Boko Haram insurgency has continued to vex local, national and international audiences worried about...
