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Multiple and often overlapping crises such as floods or drought due to climate change, violent…
Zambia’s election, scheduled for 13 August, has shaped up into a battle between two alliances.…
As South Sudan’s political crisis deepens and the risk of renewed civil war grows, the…
A review of Joe Studwell, “How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last…
Members of Senegal’s National Assembly on Monday adopted a controversial constitutional amendment that expands their…
Since a combination of jihadist and separatist rebels inflicted severe blows to Mali’s armed forces…
Western forces have largely beat a hasty retreat from Africa’s coup-prone Sahel region in recent…
The conflict in Sudan is often described as a civil war between the government-backed Sudanese…
