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Boko Haram: answering terror with more meaningful human security – By Olly Owen
Nigeria today faces a formidable combination of security challenges, which led President Goodluck Jonathan last week to declare the situation “even worse than the civil war”. ... -
Sudan: Aerial military attacks on civilians and humanitarians “They Bombed Everything that Moved”, 1999 – 2012 – By Eric Reeves
Overview Since inaugurating hostilities in South Kordofan on June 5, 2011, Khartoum’s Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) military aircraft have been engaged in relentless, widespread, and systematic ... -
Intervening in Somalia: risky business with no end in sight – By Marco Jowell
Military intervention in Somalia, whether unilateral, multilateral or under the auspices of some supranational body, has never achieved its aims nor led to long term peace ... -
Nigeria: tensions as Jonathan accedes to fuel protestors’ demands – By Ejiro Barrett
The nationwide strike called by labour unions against fuel subsidy removal in Nigeria has been suspended pending further negotiations, but it is not clear whether the ... -
In the 2 Sudans: where separation breeds conflict – By Charlie Warren
When southern Sudanese voted to separate from Sudan almost one year ago, the relative calm of the polling belied its historic outcome: the actual secession of ... -
Defining the diaspora’s role and potential with Africa (a response to ‘What’s diaspora got to do with it?’) – By Semhar Araia
Beyond the broad categorizations of the African diaspora and rhetorical questions posed by Dele Fatunla in his blog post, “What’s Diaspora Got To Do With It?”, ... -
DFID’s aid priorities and Africa – a new report by the Africa All Party Parliamentary Group
APPG report questions Government’s choice of countries to receive UK aid The Africa All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), a cross-party group of almost 90 MPs and ... -
Ghana: women still sidelined as 2012 election approaches – By Clair MacDougall
Last September a striking story stole the headlines of newspapers and media outlets all across Ghana. Samia Nkrumah, the daughter of the nation’s founding father, Dr. ... -
What’s Diaspora got to do with it? – By Dele Fatunla
It’s fast becoming commonplace to say Africa is experiencing a renaissance. Many of its countries, once bywords for hopeless basket cases, have made a sharp turn ... -
Ending the LRA: reason for optimism and political commitment – By Ned Dalby, International Crisis Group
Infrequent observers of central Africa are startled and appalled to learn that the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan rebel group that emerged in the late ...
