Only a gradual consensus-based process can reconcile Somalia’s competing political systems and avert repeated election crises ...

More secretive deals to accept deported third-country migrants from the US degrade democracy and don’t serve African ...

Development partners The ISS is grateful for support from the members of the ISS Partnership Forum: the Hanns Seidel ...

Joint naval patrols are stretched thin by the Middle East crisis, but their ability to eradicate piracy was always limited.

France’s President Emmanuel Macron accelerated the transition, spelling out his Africa doctrine in 2017. It included ...

If formally recognised, unarmed civilian protection and community-based early warning can offer a path to sustaining ...

Somalia faces more than spillover effects – these shocks are pushing the country’s long-term recovery further out of reach.

Nigeria’s western borderlands are becoming a convergence zone between violent extremist and terrorist groups across the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin. Recent attacks in the Borgu-Kainji axis show that ...

Crowdfunding campaigns rescue hostages – but the visibility they generate is becoming part of how ransom demands are set.

The toppling of King Farouk in 1952 by the Egyptian army marked the beginning of military intervention to gain political power in Africa. Since then, military interferences in politics have become a ...

In February, United States (US) Senior State Department Official Nick Checker visited Bamako to reaffirm Washington’s respect for Mali’s sovereignty, and reset bilateral ties after ‘past policy ...