Sudan: This is where the language of humanitarian neutrality reaches its limits.
Extract: How the war in Sudan is teaching society to govern without the state This may be the most politically revealing fact about Sudan’s civiliannetworks...
I received bad news until I could barely remember who had died and who had remained alive.
A year after El Fashar was taken: I have many friends whose fate I have not learned about By Mohamed Zakaria To many people, the...
Rising CO₂ is making African savanna grasses grow more
By Kimberley Simpson Maybe there is good news for pastoralist after all Savannas cover roughly half of Africa, and grasses are central to how these ecosystems...
By Nisar Majid In Somalia and the region, conflict and political instability continue. The federal government still has limited reach and authority, and the islamist...
How Rwanda-backed M23 rebels finance their war in DR Congo
“They have methodically consolidated a de facto, deeply illegal, parallel administration.” By Patricia Huon The rebels have “methodically consolidated a de facto, deeply illegal, parallel administration”, Rwanda-backed...
New world map makes Africa look bigger
The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true size of the...
KENYA: “MONEY CAN ONLY WIPE AWAY TEARS”
In June, Kenya has started a 13 million euro programme to compensate the victims of police brutality during political unrest that took place between...
Dan Connell, Part III: A Debt of Gratitude
By Dawit Mesfin Introduction: Eritrea went from getting under my skin to holding me under its thumb. There is nostalgia, but also anger; tenderness, but also...
When the Revolution Betrayed Its Promise: Dan Connell and Eritrea. Part 2
By Dawit Mesfin The blind loyalty that led me to defend the EPLF, even in the face of what I knew about its actions, was...
