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...
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...
Sudan: even if the RSF militia win, they cannot rule
Interview Omer Ismail Sudanese Former Minister The battle is still raging in his country, but ultimately “a civilian government must be established in Sudan,” says...
Darfur is again the scene of large-scale murders and rapes. Earlier in June, Khamis Abdulla Abaker, a regional governor who spoke of a "genocide",...
