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As the world’s newest nation, having gained independence from Sudan in July 2011, South Sudan has faced its fair share of challenges for such a young nation. In 2013, the civil …

resident Uhuru Kenyatta’s announcement, waiving the requirement for Africans visiting Kenya to obtain visas before arriving in the country, continues to divide opinion among Kenyans. In November 2017, the President …

Tanzania government’s perception that pastoralism is robbing Tanzania of its tourism revenue has rubbed Kenya the wrong way. When Kenyan Maasai herders crossed the Kenya-Tanzania border with over 1,000 cattle …

Laikipia County is in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya. It is one of the smallest counties, occupying an area of 9,462 square kilometers

Terrorists seem to make a score when checkpoints fail. On 14 October 2017, a truck reportedly loaded with several hundred kilogrammes of military-grade and homemade explosives passed through a government-controlled checkpoint …

In September 2015, the government of Kenya launched Operation Linda Boni (now Boni Enclave Campaign), a military campaign in response to al-Shabaab’s occupation of Boni forest. The forest is located …

The October14, 2017 Mogadishu bombing is the most significant terrorist incident that has occurred in the Horn of Africa yet. The death of at least 300 people, the injury of …

On April 28, 2012, the five East African Heads of state signed a protocol for Cooperation in Defence affairs in Arusha, Tanzania. This was after an elaborate process of many …

Ethnic and racial prejudices are not natural traits. These are learned behaviors that manifest themselves in different forms such as violence, destruction of property, and/or full-blown civil war.

South Sudan has been engulfed in protracted intra-state conflicts. The most conspicuous of these erupted in 2013 following the dismissal of the then Vice President, Riek Machar by President Salva Kiir …

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