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Have Election Crackdowns Become the Norm? Domestic and Cross-Border Repression in East Africa
Human rights abuses marred the presidential elections in Uganda in January 2026 and the contested polls in Tanzania in October 2025. As neighbouring Kenya ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Is the CCM Losing Tanzania?
On October 29, 2025 Tanzania went to the polls. Or rather, a few Tanzanians went to the polls, in some cases seemingly under duress, ... -
Without Work Permits, Refugee Women in Nairobi Face Exploitation and Hardship
Many refugee women in Nairobi lack official work permits, forcing them into precarious, informal jobs where they face low pay, exploitation, and no legal ... -
When Digital Lending Feels Like Financial Colonialism
a mobile lending application in Kenya advances a 20-year-old woman named Khamba to stock up her fruit stall in Nakura. In another seven days, ...
