Watch List 2017 – Second Update
Nigeria: Growing Insecurity on Multiple Fronts Nigeria is facing a time of uncertainty and peril. President Muhammadu Buhari’s failing...
International Crisis Group 1
Jul 20, 2017
Trained to Kill: How Four Boy Soldiers Survived Boko Haram
When the boys of Baga think back to home on the shores of Lake Chad in northeastern Nigeria, they remember a life that was not hard on...
New York Times 1
Jun 23, 2017
The Mass Genocide in Ghana Must Stop Now
By David Dzirasah Genocide is a word coined to ideologically represent the killing of a whole race or group of people. In history, we...
Ghanaweb
Jun 21, 2017
World Bank Fuels Land Grabs in Africa Through Shadowy Financial Sector Investments
The World Bank Group has indirectly financed some of Africa's most notorious land grabs, according to a report by a group of...
Africa Focus
Jun 17, 2017
Weaponising Transparency: Defence Procurement Reform as a Counterterrorism Strategy in Nigeria
Executive Summary Defence sector corruption is a major threat to Nigeria's internal security and political stability. Largely...
Africa Focus
May 24, 2017
Famine in Africa, Mideast is man-made
When his stepbrother starved to death in January, Matthew Yaw buried him in the sand next to the family’s shack of sticks and plastic,...
Kevin Seiff | Portland Press herald
Apr 1, 2017
Inside the “perfect storm” of famine
Like the four countries facing extreme hunger crises today, the famine that gripped Ethiopia from 1983 to 1985 struggled for attention...
IRIN News
Apr 1, 2017
Ten abducted in Nigeria after Boko Haram attacks
Four women and six youths were kidnapped after the insurgent group staged raids in nearby villages Nigerian soldiers with young men...
Ed Adamczyk| United Press International
Mar 29, 2017
UN: World facing greatest humanitarian crisis since 1945
UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien said that more than 20 million people faced the threat of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia,...
BBC News
Mar 11, 2017
Fighting Boko Haram in Chad: Beyond Military Measures
Since 2015, the conflict between Chad’s armed forces and Boko Haram has destabilised the Lake Chad region in the west of the country....
International Crisis Group 1
Mar 8, 2017
When does an urgent food crisis become a famine?
Nine-month-old Ali Hassan is among a generation of Somalian babies facing a looming famine. Credit: AP An unprecedented four nations...
ITV News
Mar 7, 2017
‘They Told Us They Were Here to Help Us.’ Then Came Slaughter.
By Dionne Searcey Nigerian soldiers in Borno State last year. The army has made progress in the fight against Boko Haram. ...
New York Times 1
Mar 2, 2017
