It has been nearly two decades since the African Union (AU) created the African Standby Force (ASF), a proposed multinational and multidisciplinary peacekeeping military organization. However, despite numerous conflicts across…
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Somalia’s newly elected president, is facing many problems in his country, including a drought that threatens millions with famine, political divisions hampering unity, and a rise in…
The accompanying excerpted article from the non-profit scholarly publication The Conversation: Africa examines the possible connections between coups and the presence of Islamic terrorists in African states. There have been…
In 2021, Russia’s Wagner Group, a Kremlin-linked private military force, made a significant difference in the Central African Republic (CAR) when somewhere between 1,200 and 2,000 of its mercenaries, aided…
In Kenya, China’s influence can be clearly seen in the high-profile Mombassa-Nairobi Railway, the Lamu deep seaport, and the towering Global Trade Centre. However, beyond these massive projects built by…
Three years ago, the presidents of Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a peace treaty ending a longstanding and sometimes bloody border dispute. This peace treaty, coupled with government reforms Ethiopian President…
In the early 1900s the colonial British government in Kenya pushed thousands of native Maasai tribesmen off their land in Laikipia County in order to give it to European farmers.…
Chinese lending and investments in African nations has created what many fear are debt traps, large amounts of money owed by the various countries to China with natural resources or…
While Sudan has long been a home to terrorist groups, until recently, besides some notable exceptions, few of them carried out operations within the country. However, since the 2019 military…
As the accompanying article from the South African security think tank the Institute for Security Studies notes, the use of drones by African violent non-state actors has received little media…