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In an era where global travel is often celebrated as a pathway to cultural enrichment and personal growth, a disturbing shadow hangs over the tourism industry

One obstacle, the chronic under-funding of peacekeeping, peace-agreement implementation, civil society, and humanitarian operations has undermined regional peace in perpetuity. As such, without sustainable African-led financing, peace in the region …

O n October 26, 2025, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control of Al-Fashir, the capital of North Darfur State, after more than 260 battles and a 533-day siege making …

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 …

In 2025, over a dozen African countries will head to the polls. Yet, the deeper reality is that most of these elections will be less about democratic choice and more …

The run-up to the October 29, 2025 general elections in Tanzania, has been marked less by contestation of ideas and more by the heavy-handed crackdown on the credible opposition. What began as …

As global attention is focused on the coups and metastasizing Islamist insurgencies in the Sahel, democracy is rapidly unraveling in East Africa. Governments have detained the main opposition leaders in …

When I boarded my flight to China a few weeks ago, I carried with me the same skepticism many Kenyans feel toward major government projects, particularly the expansion and modernization …

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 …

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