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The last decade has seen a surge in terrorist-related violence in Kenya, mostly by the al Shabab, an al Qaida affiliate in the Horn of Africa. Radicalization and recruitment statistics …

The 2000 Arusha Agreement called for the two main ethnic groups – Hutu and Tutsi – to share power. It also put limitations and checks on the power of the …

n July 2011, South Sudan gained independence, and became the world’s youngest country. Just two and a half years after this momentous event, the country was gripped by civil war, …

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has a bewildering history of violence and instability, especially in the east of the country, particularly North Kivu Province.

During the 2003 Darfur conflict, a tribal (Arab–Abbala and Baggara ethnicities) militia, Janjaweed, emerged instrumental for former president Omar al-Bashir’s anti-insurgency campaigns in Darfur, Nuba Mountains, and Kordofan regions. However, …

Recent developments in Ethiopia have brought the difficulties of negotiating nationhood in patched up nation-states into sharper focus.

On June 22, 2019, an attempted coup in Bahir Dar, the capital of Ethiopia’s largest regional state, Amhara, and a related attack in the country’s capital, Addis Ababa, left five …

The fall of the government in Somalia in 1991 left political and military vacuums in Southern and Central parts of the country. Somaliland, to the North, quickly cut itself from …

The video appearance of the presumably dead Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has sent signals that counter-terrorism agencies should contemplate carefully. The April 2019 video, a sequel to the June 2014 Great …

After the deposal of the Sudanese president, Omar Bashir, on April 11, 2019, a transitional military council declared a two-year rule ahead of transition to civilian rule or ‘democracy’.

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