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Cameroon grants ‘special status’ its to restive regions. They don’t feel special
The government says a new bill removes Anglophone separatists’ reasons to fight, but what’s actually in it? In the last week of 2019, Cameroon’s ... -
ADF rebels in the DRC: Why are locals protesting against the UN, again?
In 2014, attacks attributed to the ADF rebels was followed by local protests against UN peacekeepers. Is history repeating itself? In late November, a ... -
Africa Insiders: DR Congo’s Terminator won’t be back
The essentials: Congolese warlord Bosco “The Terminator” Ntaganda has been sentenced to 30 years in prison by the International Criminal Court for atrocities committed ... -
Why has violence increased since Cameroon’s National Dialogue?
The government’s Grand National Dialogue and apparent change of approach was supposed to resolve, not intensify, the Anglophone crisis. Over the past month, the ... -
Angola’s oil could actually be the DR Congo’s. Here’s why it isn’t.
About half of the oil being produced by Angola is in Congolese waters, according to the UN convention that defines maritime borders. Angola’s politics ... -
Why Cameroon’s national dialogue will accomplish nothing
President Biya could have outlined a new plan to address the Anglophone crisis. Instead, he announced talks, beginning today, that are doomed to fail. ... -
Insiders Insight: Uganda brushes with Ebola, again
African Arguments is and always will be freely-accessible to everyone. But we also have a separate spin-off product called the Africa Insiders Newsletter. It consists of weekly emails with additional ... -
Cameroon’s three deepening divides all have one thing in common
The Anglophone conflict is not the only crisis facing Cameroon. After 37 years under President Paul Biya, Cameroon is arguably at its most divided ... -
The eastern DRC’s most active rebel group just got a bit more dangerous
Is the ADF rebel group now a province of so-called Islamic State? On 16 April, the rebel group known as the Allied Democratic Forces ... -
Insiders Insight: Ebola is now a global emergency
African Arguments is and always will be freely-accessible to everyone. But we also have a separate spin-off product called the Africa Insiders Newsletter. It consists of weekly emails with additional ...