Cameroon: How Climate Change Is Forcing Elephants and Humans to Share Space

As northern Cameroon heats up, elephants are migrating in search of food and water and increasingly finding themselves in face-to-face to humans. Read more »

Gabon: Adieu to a Post-Colonial Bully?

The coup in Libreville is less a marker of democratic erosion than a signal of the revolt against France's neocolonial domination. Read more »

West Africa: How Nigeria's Fuel Subsidy Shock Jolted Cameroon's Economy

In Cameroon, the unintended consequences of Nigeria's fuel subsidy withdrawal ripple across the beleaguered Anglophone region. Read more »

Cameroon: Paul Biya's Ghostly Legacy in Cameroon - The Absence That Shaped a Nation

In power for 41 years, the 90 year-old president has ruled mostly in absentia, a ghostly embodiment of a gerontocracy that has gifted its people the concept of Waithood. Read more »

Central African Republic: Touadéra's Third-Term Plans Are Pushing CAR to the Brink

In his quest to remake the country in his image, President Touadéra has unleashed forces he may not be able to control. Read more »

Cameroon: Cameroon - the Keyboard Warlords of the Breakaway Republic

Two social media rivals from the Anglophone southwest, based in far-off England, have been prosecuting their own digital war - with life-and-death consequences in Ambazonia. Read more »

Cameroon: Meet Cameroon's Undercover Conservationists

When the Anglophone war broke out, state rangers left, militias set up camp in forests, and thousands sought refuge in areas of critical biodiversity. Read more »

Burundi: 'The President Has Crossed the Rubicon - There's No Turning Back'

In the wake of the arrest and detention of former PM Alain Guillaume Bunyoni, political observers weigh the consequences. Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Lines Through the Lake - Why the Congo-Rwanda Border Can't Be Redrawn

Long-standing cultural affinities of Rwandophones in the Great Lakes may appear to bolster Kigali's historical claims to parts of eastern Congo, but it's more complicated than it… Read more »

Rwanda: Rwanda, Too, Needs to Make Amends

Rwanda accuses Congo-Kinshasa of being unable to put its house in order; it, too, must deal with the question of its 245,000 refugees. Read more »

Burundi: 'Let The Women Be Respected' - Activists Tackle Femicide Problem

As authorities turn a blind eye to the growing cases of violence and spousal murder, women's rights activists are increasingly vocal. Read more »

Central Africa: Back to the Future in the Great Lakes - Who's Backing the M23?

In May 2013, the M23 surrendered to a multinational onslaught in eastern Congo-Kinshasa. Is history repeating itself? Read more »

Rwanda: Why We're Taking the UK's Asylum Seekers - Rwanda's Explanation

Our detractors have chosen to misconstrue the reasons behind our partnership with London, not least one of our neighbours. Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: The Gangs of Gombe

Birthed by democracy, recruited by rival politicians, they have operated with impunity. This election season has been no different. Read more »

Chad: Chad Social Media Ban Reaches One-Year Mark

Why have Chad's internet restrictions, which started amid anti-regime protests a year ago today, endured for so long? Read more »