Social media and the Peace-Conflict Tension: Prospects and Challenges
December 2016 The environment of peace and conflict is daily being altered by the rapid, spontaneous coverage of African peace and...
Resources, Conflict, and Opportunities for Stable Peace: Africa 2015-2025
August 2016 In the African armed conflict literature, resources, particularly resource contestation is blamed for most armed conflicts in...
Political Opportunity and the Conflict Landscape in Africa: Do we need new Paradigms?
April 2016 Violent political contestation is associated with the majority of armed conflicts in Africa. Many scholars believe that...
Islamic State West Africa targets Nigerian army in new video
The Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWA–formerly known as Boko Haram) has released a short video showing its forces overrunning a...
Deadly clashes flare ahead of Guinea election
After two days of deadly clashes, Guineans will vote on Sunday in their country's second presidential election since the end of military...
Exclusive: Italy paying ransoms in Syria and Somalia
A six-month investigation by Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit has cast light on the shadowy world of hostage negotiations, revealing how...
Tunisian group wins Nobel Peace Prize
BERLIN — An alliance of Tunisian workers, employers, lawyers and activists won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a decision meant to honor...
Game on between Uganda’s former liberation war allies
This 2016 election in Uganda is likely to be closely contested, with personal animosity seeping into the bigger political questions....
Shabaab photo report shows attack on Somali base
Shabaab, al Qaeda’s official branch in Somalia, has released a photo report detailing last month’s attack on a Somali military camp in...
Poaching threatens Mali’s rare desert elephants: U.N. mission
About a fifth of Mali’s rare desert elephants have been killed this year as ivory poachers exploit a security vacuum in the country’s...
