After Ebola, Can Africa Take Lead in Responding to Health Emergencies?
Last month, a senior African Union (AU) official claimed international news media such as CNN and BBC had “overlooked Africa’s role” in...
CONFLICT TRENDS (NO. 37) REAL-TIME ANALYSIS OF AFRICAN POLITICAL VIOLENCE, MAY 2015
Welcome to the May issue of the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project’s (ACLED) Conflict Trends report. Each month, ACLED...
In Fight Against Extremism, Remember Africa
For more than a decade, Americans have watched terrorism and sectarian violence threaten the stability of the Middle East and our own...
The Anatomy of the Resource Curse: Predatory Investment in Africa’s Extractive Industries
With more than 20 countries possessing bountiful oil and mineral deposits, Africa is home to more resource-rich states than any other...
Kenya softens its position on proposed closure of Dadaab refugee camp
Kenya appears to have softened its stance on the imminent closure of a camp hosting more than a third of a million Somali refugees, weeks...
Terrorism in Africa: The Imminent Threat to the United States
Editor’s note: Below is Thomas Joscelyn’s testimony to the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and...
Xenophobia: The past comes back to haunt us
Jeremy Cronin, deputy secretary of the SACP, says South Africa is dealing with the "ghosts of a past that has never truly been...
US adds Shabaab leaders to designated terrorist list
The State Department today added two senior officials in Shabaab, al Qaeda’s official branch in East Africa, to the US government’s list...
Dadaab refugee camp closure would risk 350,000 Somali lives, warns Amnesty
Amnesty International has joined the UN and others in urging Kenya to halt its plans to close the world’s largest refugee complex,...
Looming Challenges in Niger Delta Could Threaten Nigeria’s Election Afterglow
While international attention has focused on the election of President Muhammadu Buhari and the continued instability in the north of the...
