In each place – Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen and South Sudan – aid workers are being blocked from reaching

After talks with the military government in June, former Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou, the mediator

we see both British and U.S. support for the disastrous Darfur Peace Agreement of May 2006 (Abuja, Nigeria

ongoing conflict with the Polisario Front, a Sahrawi independence movement that is backed by neighbouring Algeria

under threat from Islamist militants , the mission has explored the possibility of exiting through Algeria

But he said several U.N. missions, including long-standing operations in Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Haiti “We have U.N. warnings of famine in four countries,” she said, referring to food crises in Nigeria, Somalia

Horn of Africa and the Lake Chad basin, bringing only short-term gains in countries like Somalia and Nigeria Some heavy hitters, Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa and Libya (coincidentally the AU’s architects) are , Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa). manage crises, both new – such as those that have exploded over the past five years in Libya, Mali, Nigeria Some of the proposals recommended in 2012 by a high-level panel headed by former Nigerian President Olusegun

leaf from their counterparts in similarly high-stakes polls in other African powerhouses, Ghana and Nigeria

According to the UN Refugee Agency, approximately 3,200 Ivorians have also fled to Liberia, Ghana and

In the deserts of China and Algeria and on the  atolls of the South Pacific , nuclear powers tested increasingly

policy fellow at the Washington-based Center for Global Development and former public works minister for Liberia

On May 23, Algeria’s Defense Ministry announced it had captured 22 jihadists in less than two months. Because Berbers have always had a conflictual relationship with the central authorities in Algeria, which AQIM’s national emir in Algeria, Abdel Malek Droudkel, known as Abu Mus‘ab Abdelwadud, has been leading For all these reasons, AQIM has been unable to conduct any major attack in Algeria since the attack on The prospect of establishing an Islamic state in Algeria now seems absurd.