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The police are destroying the image of Kenya. However, despite this, the country sends a thousand policemen to Haiti, where criminal gangs hold power.

This is part one, tomorrow part two about the reactions in Haiti If you were to ask a Kenyan which government agency they have the...

In Madagascar’s elections a lot is at stake

Supporters attend a meeting of the 11 opposition candidates in Antananarivo on 21 October 2023. Photo by RIJASOLO/AFP via Getty Images By Adrien Ratsimbaharison Madagascar is set...

Authoritarianism is on the rise, coups back in fashion, and elections reduced to a perfunctory ritual. How do we reverse the slide? 

BY AYISHA OSORI AND UDO JUDE ILO Liberal democracy is losing steam. With the recent coup in Gabon, Africa celebrated the ignoble milestone of 109 successful coups on...

Also kids are exposed to violent war image

by Kristen Choi Assistant Professor of Nursing & Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles A wasteland of concrete and rubble, the aftermath of Israeli...

Will the rebellion in Amhara unravel the Ethiopian state?

BY MOHAMED KHEIR OMER on African arguments Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed is grappling with a new rebellion in Amhara, simmering conflicts in several regions and a...

“I refused to go back to Rwanda, so they will kill me. It’s not safe here, but it’s not safe anywhere.”

The Rwandan government engages in transnational repression by targeting and eliminating political opponents abroad, as well as intimidating their family members who reside in...

Somali piracy, once an unsolvable security threat, has almost completely stopped. Here’s why

By Peter Viggo Jakobsen, Associate professor, Royal Danish Defence College In 2011, pirates carried out 212 attacks in a vast area spanning Somali waters, the Indian...

“Emergency of epic proportions” is coming to Sudan. But only civilian give assistance

destruction of Khartoum in recent days The five month old war in Sudan is causing a "humanitarian emergency of epic proportions”, the UN warned last...

Large scale ethnic cleansing in Darfur, once more

A war behind closed doors in Sudan's Darfur region is believed to have killed more than 10,000 civilians. Villages and residential areas of African...

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