Africa’s growing foreign military presence
Will countries heed the AU Peace and Security Council’s concerns about foreign military bases on the continent? Africa is host to a rising number of [read more…]
Will countries heed the AU Peace and Security Council’s concerns about foreign military bases on the continent? Africa is host to a rising number of [read more…]
Elections are usually a contest between competing parties. Sometimes, though, they are fundamentally about a battle for power within a party. In the case of [read more…]
KAMPALA, Uganda — Protests in Sudan reached a new stage over the weekend, with tens of thousands of people demonstrating in front of army headquarters [read more…]
ABUJA, Nigeria — When a Nigerian presidential candidate landed in the United States in January after years of being subject to a visa ban because [read more…]
Botswana’s ruling party is in the midst of its worst crisis since taking power at independence from the U.K. in 1966 as a leadership battle [read more…]
During World War II, the British army press-ganged African men and stationed them in battlefields far from home. Today, their testimonies are finally being heard. [read more…]
MARIKANA, SOUTH AFRICA — This dusty South African mining town is perhaps best known for its darkest day: the 2012 police shooting of 34 striking [read more…]
As a massive antigovernment protest movement mushroomed in Sudan over the last three weeks, from a distance it appeared obvious which side Western powers were on. [read more…]
Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the terror attack in Nairobi in which at least 14 people were killed and scores injured. The question the terror [read more…]
Riot police deployed amid fears of violence over alleged vote-rigging The runner-up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s presidential election has called on his [read more…]
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