© 2017 Jason Patinkin South Sudanese government and opposition leaders have failed to halt atrocity The 52-page report, "‘Soldiers Assume We Are Rebels’: Escalating Violence and Abuses in South Sudan’s The EU has had an arms embargo in place for years but the African Union (AU) has not imposed additional Africa; Gen. the government of South Sudan would be needed.

calls for a special envoy to Nigeria and reconsideration of the Trump administration’s policy to West Africa In December National Security Advisor John Bolton rolled out the White House’s new “Africa Strategy” The importance of US trade with Nigeria is obvious: it is the wealthiest and most populated nation in Africa “If Nigeria falls under Islamic dictatorship, its problem won’t stay in Africa; it will come to the United State Department official who served in Iraq and writes on terrorism and national security issues in Africa

soldiers at the border with Burkina Faso, from where jihadist groups cross over into the small west African EKPEI / AFP Keen not to sap the morale of the Togolese soldiers fighting the incursion, the small west African Since May 2024, he said, the jihadists have extended their influence further south, towards the nearby prefectures of Oti and South Oti. unlikely to improve without better coordination on tackling jihadism between countries in a divided west Africa

Africa and Tunisia. Africa, Togo and Tunisia. Sudan, including the hybrid court for South Sudan, once established in cooperation with the African The Government of South Sudan was urged to sign the Memorandum of Understanding with the African Union Africa.

went from celebrity human rights ambassador to prisoner speaks to the predicament of Rwanda, the small African good and bad, with heroes and demons,” said Anna Cave, a former National Security Council director for African He traveled to Africa with a congressional delegation and established a nonprofit, the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Kagame found strangled in a South African hotel room on Jan. 1, 2014, signaled yet again how far the In South Africa, a former army chief was shot in the stomach but survived.

An ethnic cleansing campaign carried out by the South Sudanese government has triggered one of the biggest refugee crises in Africa. He spent six weeks in South Sudan and refugee camps in neighboring countries. _______________________

Harriet Orrell Mali's army is struggling to combat Islamist insurgents in the Sahel The Sahel region of Africa Terrorism tracker/ Institute for Economics & Peace calculations The Sahel stretches from the west coast of Africa decide to join a militant group," says Beverly Ochieng, a senior analyst specialising in Francophone Africa The Sahel is sometimes referred to as the "coup belt" of Africa. that Russia is taking more assertive control over Russian paramilitaries in the region known as the Africa

When al-Bashir visited South Africa in 2015, South African President Jacob Zuma’s government ignored Following criticism of its behavior, South Africa and other African members have threatened to quit the countries with the capacity to make a difference in places such as Myanmar or, for example, war-torn South

Its south is demarcated by Lake Kivu. The conflict in eastern Congo — an area about the size of Michigan — was once labeled Africa’s World Ruth Maclean  is the West Africa bureau chief for The Times, covering 25 countries including Nigeria, Congo, the countries in the Sahel region as well as Central Africa.  More about Elian Peltier https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/world/africa/rwanda-rebels-congo.html?

Israel called for the relocation of 1.1 million civilians  to south Gaza within 24 hours for safety, Israeli Defense Forces called for over a million Palestinians in northern Gaza to evacuate  to the south Anyone who chooses not to evacuate from the North of the Gaza Strip to the South of the Gaza Strip may classification  and discrimination  to create a hierarchical system of oppression like the apartheid system in South Africa or the old segregation system in the southern United States.  

The war may also significantly change the Horn of Africa’s geostrategic landscape, particularly if the This evidence is now urgently needed to enable the AU to target those in Africa and beyond who unilaterally Written by Moses Chrispus Okello, Senior Researcher, Horn of Africa Security Analysis, ISS Addis Ababa Republished with permission from  ISS Africa . referrer=newsletter Copyright 2025 ISS Africa

As Mozambique’s army – and its South African mercenary allies – try to hold back the insurgency, local seem to want to stay put,” said Paolo Israel, a researcher at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. in the insurgency, members of ASWJ – one of a number of IS offshoots gaining ground in sub-Saharan Africa Its message has resonated with marginalised youth unable to benefit from the coastal region’s offshore