Defence & Security

A s of October 29, 2025, Sudan’s war has crossed a dark and decisive threshold with the fall of El Fasher, the historic capital of Darfur and the last stronghold …

In 2018, the world applauded the hand-shake between Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki, terming it as a new era of Horn of Africa peace. Abiy …

When the wave of coups swept across the Sahel—from Mali (2020, 2021) to Burkina Faso (2022), Niger (2023), and Sudan (2021)—the new military governments promised security and return to constitutional …

Afghanistan and Syria fell to Islamist insurgencies of the Taliban and Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) on August 15, 2021 and December 08, 2024. Both insurgencies were remarkably swift, with the …

The recent Africa-India Key Maritime Engagement (AIKEYME), a multinational naval exercise co-hosted by India and Tanzania in Dar es Salaam, has implications beyond the exercise’s immediate goal of strengthening regional …

The continued threat of potentially crippling tariffs by the United States renders Canada’s economic situation highly volatile. Over three-quarters of Canadian products are exported to the United States, leading Canadian …

April 15, 2025 marks a grim anniversary: two years since Sudan plunged into a devastating civil-war. What began as a power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the …

Mass disinformation and mal-information are threats to national security. Both ‘dis’ and ‘mal’ information are especially severe in open and liberal democracies such as Kenya. Misinformation is the unintentional circulation …

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has long suffered from instability that has largely been driven by armed groups. The recent capture of Goma and Bukavu, the capitals of North …

South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, is teetering on the edge of a familiar abyss. Since gaining independence from Sudan in 2011, it’s been a country defined by hope and heartbreak in …

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