Africa: The Growing Militarization of China's Africa Policy

China is leveraging its military training exercises with African forces to advance China's expeditionary capabilities and geostrategic ambitions. Read more »

Africa: Famine Takes Grip in Africa's Prolonged Conflict Zones

Eighty percent of the record 163 million Africans facing acute food insecurity are in conflict-affected countries, including potentially 840,000 people in Sudan, South Sudan, and… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Constantly Evolving Militant Islamist Threat

Fatalities linked to militant Islamist violence in Africa have surged by nearly 60 percent since 2021, though this is marked by widely varying regional threat trajectories, actors,… Read more »

Africa: How Africa's Legislatures Can Improve Security

Legislatures play an integral role in advancing national security by ensuring priorities align with citizen interests, budgets are allocated to meet priorities, and adequate… Read more »

Africa: Culture, Democracy, and the Fight Against Violent Extremism

Strengthening democratic institutions and amplifying traditional African values to promote social cohesion and consensus goes hand in hand with the fight against violent extremism. Read more »

Africa: The State of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations in Africa

General Birame Diop assesses the challenging trends facing UN peacekeeping operations in Africa, including loss of host country support, disinformation, and increasingly brazen… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo - a Persistent Crisis of Legitimacy

The Congo's chaotic elections failed to break the country's long legacy of fraudulent polls and plunged the government into a fresh crisis of legitimacy. Read more »