After Decades of Authoritarian Rule is Ethiopia Really on the Path Toward Democratic Renewal?Ethiopia has been getting quite a bit of attention in the news lately for taking seemingly significant shifts towards becoming...
This is What the #SOSNicaragua Hashtag Is All AboutAround April 19, the hashtag #SOSNicaragua emerged on Twitter. It tells a troubling story of growing demonstrations in the capital Managua and...
A Coup in Zimbabwe? Robert Mugabe is Seemingly DeposedThe Zimbabwean military has apparently taken control in the capital city of Harare and detained longtime president Robert Mugabe. Army...
Sudan is still listed as a state sponsor of terrorism – so why did the US just lift sanctions?Earlier this month, the US government decided to lift economic sanctions on Sudan. These sanctions have been in place since 1997, and were...
Trump wants to dismantle Wall Street Reform. Here’s what that could mean for…CongoThe Trump administration’s hostility toward the 2010 Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (aka the Dodd-Frank Act) should come as...
After an Internet blackout, Congolese are taking to the streets of Brazzaville: Here’s whyLast month, people in the Republic of Congo lost their Internet — and they remained offline for a week. People immediately...
The Kasai Region of the Congo Could Become Africa’s Next HotspotEarlier this year, on March 12, two United Nations investigators – American Michael Sharp and Swedish-Chilean Zaida Catalan – went missing...
A Famine is Never Just a Famine — It’s Political Violence By Starvation.We are entering an age of famine. But the extreme food crises facing South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Northern Nigeria...
The New UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres Just Made Some Progress on a Long Stalled Dispute in North AfricaAround the world there are a number of conflicts and disputes that have essentially been frozen in place for many...
