Don’t write off democracy in Africa just yet
By Howard W. French The 1980s are usually recalled as a decade of one-party rule in Africa, and beyond that,…
Analysis: Military coups in Africa worsen corruption, rights abuses they want to end
By Olanrewaju Oyedeji On the 23rd of January, the media reported a coup in Burkina Faso. The leaders of the coup blamed…
Surge in militant Islamist violence in the Sahel dominates Africa’s fight against extremists
By Africa Center for Strategic Studies A 70-percent annual increase in violent events linked to militant Islamist groups in the…
A Russia-Ukraine war could ripple across Africa and Asia
•Beware of food price spikes and revolutions if Ukrainian grain deliveries are disrupted. By Alex Smith, a food and agriculture analyst…
US foreign policy in Africa no longer about rivalry with China–Blinken
US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken
Ten things to watch in Africa in 2022
Text by The German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Hamburg (https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en) Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, there…
Paul Kagame: “Coups are the result of bad governance”
Rwanda President Paul Kagame