Shabaab suicide assault team strikes in Somali capital
Shabaab, al Qaeda’s official branch in Somalia and East Africa, killed and wounded several members of the Somali government, including...
CONFLICT TRENDS (NO. 34) REAL-TIME ANALYSIS OF AFRICAN POLITICAL VIOLENCE, FEBRUARY 2015
Welcome to the February issue of the Armed Con- flict Location & Event Data Project’s (ACLED) Con- flict Trends report. Each month, ACLED...
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...
Political Transition and Power Transformation in Togo: Will Faure Gnassingbe Relinquish Power in 201
This special report examines the Faure Gnassingbe regime in Togo in order to determine the regime's likelihood to hand over power to a...
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...
Transforming Peacebuilding: Can the Internationals Put the Locals First?
Despite so many efforts to make internationally designed peacebuilding and development projects sustainable after the outsiders have...
