Why West Africa has had so many coups and how to prevent more
By Muhammad Dan Suleiman and Hakeem Onapajo West Africa’s latest successful coup, in Burkina Faso on 24 January 2022, has renewed…
To reveal, or not to reveal? The calculus behind US intelligence disclosures
By Douglas London The United States and the United Kingdom have supplied the world with a steady stream of declassified intelligence…
Ukraine: US, Russia wage signaling war to avert actual war
•Each side is trying to convince the other that the price of conflict is too high. It is a complex…
Africa’s ties with Europe should be shaped by African Agency
By Niall Duggan, Toni Haastrup, and Luis Mah The sixth leaders’ summit between the African Union and European Union will finally take…
Mapping Africa’s natural resources
•Nearly half the world’s gold and one-third of all minerals are in Africa. Here’s a look at the resources African…
Rebel-held Syria is the new capital of global terrorism
•The question of who controls the region around Idlib has become an international problem. By Anchal Vohra In early February, two…
2023: Obasanjo, ex-generals rule out Atiku, back power shift to South
•Tip Peter Obi, Akinwumi Adesina, Kingsley Mohgalu •Saraki, Nigeria’s special purpose vehicle for 2023 polls By Dapo Akinrefon and Johnbosco Agbakwuru…
The impact of the Russia-Ukraine crisis on the Middle East and North Africa
•Heightened conflict in Ukraine could have serious consequences for European interests in the Middle East and North Africa. It could…
Ritual killings in Nigeria reflect mounting desperation for wealth, security amid creeping collapse of law and order
•The rising incidence of ritual killings in Nigeria reflects a weakening state control and Nigerians’ desperate attempts to achieve economic…
White Malice: how the CIA strangled African independence at birth
By Henning Melber Historian Susan Williams grew up in Zambia. Like other scholars of her generation raised in former settler societies of…