African Arguments
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Youths in Zimbabwe Are Not Rejecting Politics – They Are Reshaping it
Youth political participation in Zimbabwe is often described in familiar terms: party membership, mobilisation through rallies, and the manipulation of unemployed young people into ... -
The Horn and the Gulf: How a New Geopolitical Confluence is Emerging
Israel’s recognition of Somaliland continues to reverberate across the Red Sea’s fast-changing geopolitics. How to read the emerging regional map? Certainly not through the ... -
Will Elections Bring Peace to South Sudan?
South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, has not had an election since its independence from Sudan in 2011. Per the 2018 power-sharing agreement, the ... -
Israel’s Somaliland Gamble is Repeating the Bloody History that Created Al-Shabaab
The Boxing Day recognition will not bring stability but will ignite a conflict that empowers extremists and spills into Ethiopia’s troubled east. On Boxing ... -
Museveni’s Militarised Elections: A Gen Z Reckoning
The 15 January elections in Uganda are almost a foregone conclusion, preceded, as has become customary, by a violent crackdown against the opposition. As ... -
Israel’s Recognition of Somaliland: Northeast Africa at a Critical Juncture
Israel’s recognition of Somaliland on 26 December 2025 has introduced yet another twist to the already volatile geostrategic landscape of Northeast Africa. Though not ... -
Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Burkina Faso: a shared history collides with political fractures
For many decades, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Mali constituted one of the most integrated spaces of human and economic circulation in West Africa. ... -
Israel Recognizes Somaliland: Risks for Peace and Conflict in the Somali Horn of Africa
On 26 December 2025 Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel announced the official recognition of Somaliland by his government. This came as a surprise to ... -
Africa’s Share of the Nobel Prizes: A Reflection of the World Order
The curtain has fallen in Oslo and Stockholm. The Nobel Prize laureates have been announced. The award ceremony has taken place; however, it has ... -
Madagascar’s Unfinished Revolution: Can a Youth Uprising Break the Country’s Political Curse?
In Madagascar, a youth-led revolt has toppled a president and ushered in a military-led transition. Whether this moment becomes a democratic turning point—or yet ...
