By Enrica Picco, International Crisis Group, 10 May 2022 Disbanded in 2013, today the Central African army is present throughout the country. But...
 

Mens Associates, London, 16 May, 2022 Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) closed the sale of its nomination forms on 13 May and is...
 

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By Philip Kleinfeld and Mamadou Tapily, The New Humanitarian, 04 May 2022 Editor’s note: As Sahelian governments struggle to contain the spread of...
 

World ‘at a crossroads’ as droughts increase nearly a third in a generation

Presence of Russian mercenaries in Mali risks bloody backlash, say experts

Major decline in West African piracy, but Gulf of Guinea remains world hotspot

EU lawmakers are pushing for a plan to raise cocoa prices in west Africa

Austerity is not the answer to Africa’s colliding challenges

Africa: COVID ‘pushed back’ democracy, Ukraine war further raises risks

The Ukraine war could hit Africa harder than the pandemic

‘White hands’: The rise of private armies in African conflicts

Russian mercenaries are Putin’s ‘coercive tool’ in Africa

Russia’s Wagner Group in the Sahel

Managing Vigilantism in Nigeria: A Near-term Necessity

Ethiopia: Tigrayan fighters agree to ‘cessation of hostilities’

Nigeria’s revenue gaps and fiscal traps

Africa mostly quiet amid widespread condemnation of Russia

How Burkina Faso became the epicentre of conflict in the Sahel

Africa’s youth are already leading the way to economic success

Bid to resurrect Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline (TSGP) is likely to fail

Israel at the African Union: Not in, but not out

Making the future of African STEM female

Investment in science and technology is key to an African economic boom

atest Milestone for the African Continental Free Trade Area: Pan-African Payment and Settlement System

Still far from peace in Ethiopia

The Ouagadougou Coup: A Reaction to Insecurity

Making sense of the coup in Burkina Faso

Sudan’s Imperilled Transition: Policy Recommendations for the U.S.

COVID inequity: In Africa, at-home tests are scarce, costly

Guterres says Africa is ‘source of hope’ for the world

Coups cheered in West Africa as Islamist insurgencies sap faith in democracy

When peace comes: Imagining the end of Nigeria’s Boko Haram war

Lessons Africa can teach us about building the digital future

Why the UN Security Council Stumbles in Responding to Coups

Vaccine inequity: Ensuring Africa is not left out

Food insecurity soaring across 20 hunger hotspots

SALW-related assistance to states in sub-Saharan Africa: Hitting the target or missing the mark?

What does 2022 have in store for Africa?

Deluge of Digital Repression Threatens African Security

Surge in Militant Islamist Violence in the Sahel

UN chief: Mali military should hold elections in short time

Mali 'denied' German military plane access to airspace

How Facebook took over the internet in Africa – and changed everything

France mulls ending military support for Mali as relations with junta worsen

Recent coups in West and Central Africa

West Africa: Extreme poverty rises nearly 3 per cent due to COVID

What's driving Turkey's commercial & military relations with Africa?

Sahel violence threatens West African coastal states

France presses EU to agree to sanctions against Mali, in line with ECOWAS

Islamic State Province’s Media in Africa: Comparing Trends in West and Central Africa

Sweden to withdraw from French-led special forces mission Takuba in Mali

Small bands of mercenaries extend Russia’s reach in Africa

West African nations sever links with Mali over election delay

West African bloc slaps tough new sanctions on Mali over election delay

Mali: It’s clear ECOWAS will no longer accept coups, says Osinbajo

Dictators in Africa using social media to cling to power

African democracy in 2022: 3 elections to watch

China Applies Brakes to Africa Lending

Sanctions-hit Mali facing isolation as neighbours cancel flights

It's time to get a better handle on debt in developing economies

Beyond Africa: Militaries Are Back in an Age of Democratic Backsliding

Africa’s Coups and the Role of External Actors

Resurging Military Coups in Africa: A Role for the International Community

Revenue Statistics in Africa 1990-2021, OECD

Africa and climate change: Time for urgent action

Cameroon Needs an African Cup Ceasefire

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok has resigned

How China and the US are fighting over Africa

An examination of the 2035 Vision for China-Africa Cooperatio

Why the return of displaced people is such a thorny issue in South Sudan

African democracy in 2022: 3 elections to watch

Mali proposes five-year election delay to ECOWAS

US removes Ethiopia, Mali and Guinea from AGOA trade programme

Russian COVID-19 Diplomacy in Africa: A Mixed Bag

A Rare Chance for Peace in Ethiopia

Nigeria: prospects for 2022

Migration and forced displacement

Western countries condemn 'deployment' of Russian mercenaries in Mali

How armed drones may have helped turn the tide in Ethiopia’s war

Russia’s presence in Mali raises concerns

West African security, COVID-19 and human rights, China

Charting a new course in US-Africa relations: The importance of learning from others’ mistakes

A currency union encompassing all of West Africa promises benefits but faces a multitude of obstacles

WHO: Africa might miss 70% vaccination goal until late 2024

Time to End Ethiopia’s Unwinnable Civil War

Africa: Rising debt highlights need for progress in domestic revenue

Global pharma firms must improve vaccine distribution across East Africa

Mali: Enabling Dialogue with the Jihadist Coalition JNIM

Digitalizing Africa’s mines

Africa: Ethiopia is tearing itself apart

Are Illiasou Djibo and Moussa Moumoni Emerging as IS in Greater Sahara’s New Leadership Duo?

Russia’s Influence in the Central African Republic

The Kampala Attacks and Their Regional Implications

‘We will all die’: In Kenya, prolonged drought takes heavy toll

Counter-insurgency governance in the Sahel

Enlightened climate policy for Africa

How digital espionage tools exacerbate authoritarianism across Africa

Ethiopia: Can Sudan use Tigray refugees as a bargaining chip?

How Israel’s defence and intelligence industries are making inroads across Africa

West African security, COVID-19 and human rights, China

ICRC alarmed at lack of humanitarian access for 26 million people in Africa

EU’s Global Gateway and a new foundation for partnerships in Africa

Africa’s youth lost out in Glasgow

Locust swarms ‘the size of Luxembourg’ descend on East Africa

Urbanisation and demography in North-West Africa 1950-2020

IATF2021 Conference makes way for CANEX

Lake Chad Basin: Fighting terrorism, biggest challenges of our time

Scientists mystified, wary, as Africa avoids COVID disaster

Reforming the African Union Mission in Somalia

Ethiopia conflict threat to wider regional security: Blinken

New project aims to bring solar-powered wireless internet to South African schoolkids

Pfizer to allow Covid pill made and sold cheaply in poorer countries

US-Africa: How the Biden administration can make AGOA more effective

To Remake Multilateralism, Start With the Role of Africa

MFS $100m Series C fund raising for massive expansion across Africa

UN says 9 staff, 70 contractors detained in Ethiopia

This is how Niger acts against climate change

Britain’s Mali mission: Troops target Isis in growing African conflict

Reversing Sudan’s Dangerous Coup

Ethiopia’s Civil War: Cutting a Deal to Stop the Bloodshed

Mali’s deal with Russia’s Wagner Group will impact the whole Sahel

Impacts of Climate change on Africa

The Military Has Taken Power in Sudan and Dissolved Its Transitional Government

‘Kill them all, don’t spare anyone’: A massacre in Burkina Faso

How Africa and China may shape UN peacekeeping beyond the liberal international order

Oil or Nothing: Dealing with South Sudan’s Bleeding Finances

Mahamat Déby moves to secure Chad’s borders

What can Buhari win from the summit season?

Getting Chad’s Transition on Track

Afreximbank and AfCFTA announce Operational Roll-out of PAPSS

Saving Momentum for Change in Mali’s Transition

COVID-19: How can the G20 address debt distress in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Africa must produce its own vaccines

Nigeria’s governors mount legal challenge to control VAT revenue

‘I just cry’: Dying of hunger in Ethiopia’s blockaded Tigray

Africa faces 470 million COVID-19 vaccine shortfall this year

Arms transfers, military spending and insurgencies: What we do (and do not) know about Mozambique

What Abuja sees in the Taliban’s takeover

Sahel jihadists: JNIM-EIGS differences are a source of possible optimism

Three Paths to Accelerating Digital Access in West and Central Africa

IS threat moves online, expands across Africa: UN counter-terrorism expert

At river where Tigrayan bodies floated, fears of ‘many more’

Nigeria’s secret programme to lure top Boko Haram defectors

Who will be the PDP’s 2023 presidential candidate?

Building on Somaliland’s Successful Elections

Turkey in the Sahel

Spying scandal: Rwanda targeted South Africa's President

The Dangerous Expansion of Ethiopia’s Tigray War

What India’s COVID-19 crisis means for Africa

Domestic violence, forced marriage, have risen in Sudan: Study

What caused South Africa’s week of rioting?

COVID-19 and poverty’s impact on electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa

Tigrayans in Ethiopia fear becoming “the next Rwanda”

South Africa: Zuma can’t be allowed to get away with this

Africa: Which countries charge the most for internet data?

Defections threaten PDP’s survival ahead of Nigeria’s 2023 election

South Africa: ‘Worst violence since apartheid’

Is Ethiopia’s civil war at ‘turning point’ as Tigray rebels retake key cities?

UN ready to promote 'win-win solution' for Blue Nile dam project

Climate crisis highlights urgency of diversifying Africa’s economies

What Do We Know About Chinese Lending in Africa?

Senegal to move all government data to Huawei-run data center

Nigeria: An APC attempt to flip Delta State?

1,014 students abducted since December 2020 in Nigeria

China’s relationship with Africa goes deeper than just resource extraction

Uncovering the civilian toll of France’s anti-jihadist war in Mali

Ethiopia Votes, But Balloting Will Not Ease the Country’s Deep Crisis

Gbagbo’s Return to Côte d’Ivoire: A New Opportunity for Reconciliation

Sahel/US: ’We do not want to work with military forces that have committed human rights abuses’

Ethiopia – Democratic dystopia

Non-Military Actors as a Regional Strategy in the Lake Chad Region

In Tigray, food is often a weapon of war as famine looms

Nine in 10 African nations set to miss urgent COVID vaccination goal

What is happening in Tigray? Ethiopia's brutal civil war explained

France is preparing a Malian base for the Algerian army

IS-linked group says Boko Haram leader in Nigeria is dead

Why the extent of intra-African trade is much higher than commonly believed

Africa Elections 2021: All the upcoming votes and dates

What Do We Know About Chinese Lending in Africa?

Why Namibian chiefs have rejected Germany’s €1bn ‘apology’ for colonial genocide

Caught in the middle: Peace activists in Cameroon try to end a brutal war

Murder in Tillabery: Calming Niger’s Emerging Communal Crisis

‘Our Season’: Eritrean troops kill, rape, loot in Tigray

Mauritius: A picture perfect democracy’s fall from grace

Madagascar: Urgent humanitarian intervention needed as millions face hunger

Half of CAR population in grip of dire food insecurity, UN warns

Is a war between Egypt and Ethiopia brewing on the Nile?

DR Congo: No Grace Period for the New Government

Violence in Somalia, Déby’s Death and Islamist Militancy in Africa

South-western Niger: Preventing a New Insurrection

Nigeria on high alert as Boko Haram approaches Abuja

Climate adaptation and the great reset for Africa

Why Somalia’s Electoral Crisis Has Tipped into Violence

Civil society should anchor Biden’s democracy agenda in Africa

‘Clean out our insides’: Ethiopia detains Tigrayans amid war

Deby's death seen as blow to counterterrorism efforts in Africa's Sahel

Civil society should anchor Biden’s democracy agenda in Africa

Somalia: Averting a Descent into Political Violence

New SIPRI Policy Paper: Climate-related Security Risks and Peacebuilding in Mali

Millions in west, central Africa facing hunger, WFP

‘Political, security, human rights and humanitarian challenges’ plague Mali

'Leave no Tigrayan': In Ethiopia, an ethnicity is erased

Islamic State looks to Africa to rebuild following Middle East defeats

Has ECOWAS made West Africa a safer place?

Tanzania’s new President and new hope

Inside the great African land rush

Ethiopia’s Tigray War: A Deadly, Dangerous Stalemate

International trade body warns over Africa’s fake Covid vaccines

How African states can improve their cybersecurity

The promises and perils of Africa’s digital revolution

France says no troop withdrawals from Sahel

Sahel: What to look out for in 2021

Tigray: Why are soldiers attacking religious heritage sites?

A Last Chance to End Somalia’s Dangerous Election Impasse

US foreign policy toward Africa: An African citizen perspective

Biden, democracy, and Africa

France says no troop withdrawals from Sahel

Turkey moving to become a major player in Africa

Ethiopian army implicated in brutal war crime, Telegraph

US in Africa: In the Covid era, how to recalibrate security policy

Why Sudan Matters

Joint UN-Government Tigray mission highlights humanitarian needs

Covid-19 vaccines in Africa: Mo Ibrahim and others lament sorry state of access

Iran in Africa: Ideology comes at the expense of diplomacy and business

Macron will change France’s Sahel policy in 2021

Sudan: 250 killed, over 100,000 displaced as violence surges in Darfur

New Challenges for Chad’s Army

How to Spend It: New EU Funding for African Peace and Security

Eritrea in the Tigray war: What we know and why it might backfire

Museveni and the West. Relationship status: It’s complicated

In Central African Republic, disputed polls spark a rebel offensive

'Swift action' needed in Tigray to save thousands at risk, UNHCR warns

Don’t Discount America’s Interest in Keeping Africa Safe

The EU's urgent imperative in the Sahel

UNHCR relocates victims of Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict to new site in Sudan

What we know about South Africa’s Covid-19 strain

Food for Mozambicans struggling amidst violence and COVID-19, WFP

2020 will be remembered for the COVID-19 pandemic

Al-Qaeda and Islamic State groups are working together in West Africa to grab large swaths of territory

Is Africa overtaking the Middle East as the new jihadist battleground?

Ethnic profiling of Tigrayans heightens tensions in Ethiopia

Tanzania's Tundu Lissu: The fight is not over yet

France/Russia: Propaganda war on Facebook targets Mali & the CAR

US Africa Command stands up Joint Task Force-Quartz

Holiday gift with impact: crowdfunding solar-powered water access in Africa

Don’t Discount America’s Interest in Keeping Africa Safe

Saving the Central African Republic’s Elections and Averting Another Cycle of Violence

Russia, Rwanda deploy troops to CAR amid pre-election tensions

The Green 'gaslighting' of Africa

Survivors recount horrific details of Mai Kadra massacre

Mali: COVID-19 and conflict lead to rise in child trafficking

300 British troops deploy to Mali on UN Peacekeeping Mission

New Africa alliance aims to tackle deadly COVID ‘infodemic’

Ethiopian leaders rebuff foreign appeals for diplomatic solution in Tigray

Refugee resettlement numbers fall to lowest in two decades: UNHCR

Many challenges remain for Sahel Joint Force, warns Lacroix

Tigray leader says his forces fired rockets at Eritrea

Threats to democracy in Africa: The rise of the constitutional coup

COVID-19 and migrant remittances: Supporting this essential lifeline under threat

COVID-19: Why are Africa’s low death rates low?

Clashes over Ethiopia's Tigray Region: Getting to a Ceasefire and National Dialogue

Youth protests for police reform in Nigeria: What lies ahead for #EndSARS

Hundreds dead in escalating Ethiopian conflict

Ethiopian MPs approve launch of military operation in Tigray

As the US Slumps Away, China Subsumes African Security Arrangements

Chatham House Prize: Malawi Judges Win for Election Work

DRC: A history of pillage, destination unknown

Steering Ethiopia’s Tigray Crisis Away from Conflict

Why can’t the AU seem to deter coups?

Lake Chad region: The key to peace is water, not military action

Ethiopia/Egypt/Sudan: Trust, linkage, and cooperation can end dam dispute

Report reveals heat rising north and south, Sahel getting wetter

Africa: Positive death penalty decision undermined by continued executions

Coronavirus: why Africa had such a low Covid-19 death rate

New fossil 'rewrites history of human evolution'

South Sudan slides backwards

Africa’s path toward energy security is away from fossil fuels

Burkina Faso ‘one step short of famine’, warns UN WFP

UN chief appeals for urgent action to reverse ‘downward spiral’ in Sahel

Victims or villains? The volunteer fighters on Burkina Faso’s front line

UN envoy outlines cooperation progress in Africa’s Great Lakes region

Violence, COVID-19, contribute to rising humanitarian needs in the Sahel

A Technical Retrospective of the Former South African Nuclear Weapon Programme

How pandemic economics and political reform will reshape Nigeria

An emergent ’politico-military’ group in Niger’s northern desert

Kenya: Ahead of the 2022 polls, what options does Kenyatta really have?

Illicit capital robbing Africa and its people of their future: UNCTAD

Uganda ‘cleaning’ NGO list

Power wrangles in Mali

ECOWAS decides to adopt a new roadmap for the launch of the ECO

Global diamond industry unexpected victim of coronavirus

Ranking of African military powers in 2020

Mali: M5-RFP coalition rejects transition charter adopted by junta

South Africa’s COVID relief fund dogged by delays and corruption

4 out of 4: Why has Mali had so many successful coups?

Mali Coup d’État: The soldiers who brought down IBK

One million flee escalating violence in Burkina Faso

Mali soldiers promise elections after coup condemned abroad

Public anger seems to deter Somalia’s Al-Shabaab more than counter-terrorism efforts

Third time lucky: Will Mozambique’s peace deal last?

Ministers should focus on better defining British objectives in the Sahel

Unrest Threatens Ethiopia’s Transition Under Abiy Ahmed

How Facebook spun its web across African internet

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