Politics
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Violence, Profit, and the Economy Sustaining Eastern Congo’s Endless War
At a checkpoint between Miba and the Kachanga hill in Fizi territory, soldiers of the Congolese army wave through bicycles loaded with mineral ore, ... -
Sudan: Burhan’s Dialogue Is Not a Path to Stability
General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has discovered dialogue again. After years of promises, a military coup, emergency rule, war rhetoric and political exclusion, Sudan’s army ... -
The Coup Costs More Than the Corruption It Claims to Fix
Since 2020, soldiers have seized power in Mali, Guinea, Sudan, Burkina Faso (twice), Niger, and Gabon. In every case, the announcement has followed the ... -
The Beijing of It All: Africa’s Development Terms Are No Longer Written in Washington or Brussels
In the period that followed decolonisation, Africa’s development landscape continued to be shaped by Western partnerships. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, this ... -
Walking with the Herd – Why Africa Must Rethink Its Oldest Economy
When pastoralists, researchers, policymakers and development practitioners gathered in Marsabit this year to mark the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP-2026), the conversations ... -
Somalia: A Government With One Foot Out the Door
Somalia’s foreign passport crackdown reveals a governance crisis hiding in plain sight On the afternoon of June 24, 2026, Somalia’s Second Deputy Prime Minister, ... -
A Century of Agricultural Investment in Sudan: Why Has Development Failed?
This article is translated and adapted from an Arabic article published in Sudanese Online. The ideas reflect arguments presented by the author in his ... -
Present but Displaced: What Western Objections to Reparations Fail to See
On 25 March 2026, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a Ghana-led resolution declaring the trafficking and racialised chattel enslavement of Africans the ... -
Anatomy of a Failure: How Tunisia’s Democracy Was Undermined
Internal political betrayal, external cynicism, and the unravelling of the Arab Spring’s last laboratory. On 25 July 2026, thousands of Tunisians took to the ... -
Somalia: The Journalists Who Disappeared
In October 2022, Abdalle Ahmed Mumin — Secretary-General of the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS), the organisation that documents what happens to journalists in Somalia ...
