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",...
The periphery is taking revenge on the elite in Sudan and Hemedti profits from it
Never did Sudanese shepherd boys penetrate the center of power. The periphery is taking revenge on the elite in Sudan and is doing so...
It is not just the generals who are bidding on the political marketplace of Sudan
In Sudan, it is not only about the fight between generals Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, aka Hemedti. Many more parties are...
Dying often is not easy for autocrats in Africa, because they leave behind an unfillable vacuum. In the past, this was the case for...