Africa: Drongo Company - Can Washington's New Psyop Unit Win Back African Trust?

In mid-July, the US Army activated Delta Company of the 7th Psychological Operations (PSYOP) Battalion under 3rd Special Forces Group. The unit has taken on the informal name… Read more »

Africa: DRC - Peace in Eastern Congo Must Include the Banyamulenge

Many people may have never heard of Minembwe, and those who know it may have learned about it through stories of war, displacement and hunger. For me, however, it is much more than… Read more »

Mali: 900 Tankers Under Escort - What Africa Corps Actually Does in Mali

On September 14, 2026, more than 900 fuel tankers entered Bamako under military escort, the Malian government announced. The figure sounds like a victory: the capital got its fuel.… Read more »

Mali: Who Wins From Ukraine's Drones in Mali?

On 12 September, CNN reported that around fifteen Ukrainian drone specialists are working with the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) in northern Mali. According to two Ukrainians… Read more »

Ethiopia: Breaking the Pretoria Architecture - How Ethiopia's Fragmented Wars Converged Into a Single Existential Threat

When the Pretoria Cessation of Hostilities Agreement was signed in November 2022, international observers prematurely celebrated the end of one of this century's most devastating… Read more »

Ethiopia: Ethiopia's Foretold War Arrives

No one can claim that a return to war in Tigray and northern Ethiopia is a surprise, but it makes it no less horrifying. In just a handful of days, and after months of spiralling… Read more »

Africa: Türkiye's Security Export - Why Africa's New Air Force Costs Less Than a Fighter Jet's Spare Parts

Drones have become a primary mechanism of warfare on many fronts around the world. Those fronts range from the war between Russia and Ukraine to the conflict between the United… Read more »

West Africa: There's No Conspiracy in the Sahel - - There's a Gap, and Bamako Knows How to Use It

A familiar claim keeps surfacing in the rhetoric of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger's ruling juntas, echoed enthusiastically by Russian state media: the West is deliberately working… Read more »

Africa: The Horn of Africa's Age of Permanent Conflict

Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement, signed in 2005, seemed to vindicate a model for how wars might end in the Horn of Africa. Under the auspices of the African Union, led by… Read more »

Algeria: Beyond the Fighter Jets - What Algeria's Deployment to Niger Really Signals

Four Algerian Su-30 fighters touched down in Niamey on 30 August 2026, trailed by an aerial refueling aircraft. A day earlier, mutinous soldiers -- some drawn from units worn down… Read more »

Sudan: Beyond Projects - Rethinking Agricultural Investment for Sudan's Post-War Recovery

This essay concludes a three-part series by the author on agriculture in Sudan. Read the previous instalments here and here. Read more »

Sudan: Who Speaks for Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms?

When four members of Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms travelled to London in March 2026 to accept the Chatham House Prize on behalf of the movement, the ceremony was widely… Read more »

Africa: Somalia - a Government With One Foot Out the Door

Somalia's foreign passport crackdown reveals a governance crisis hiding in plain sight Read more »

Africa: Renegotiating Military Immunity - Kenya's New Terms for Foreign Troops

In July 2026, Britain suspended one of its flagship military exercises in Kenya after Nairobi withheld the licences required for troops to train in Laikipia. Five days later, the… Read more »

Africa: When a Story of Homecoming Is Filmed in a Homeland Still Awaiting Return

I am from Dakhla, on the Atlantic coast of Western Sahara. For thirteen years, I have been unable to return safely because of my human-rights advocacy, my defence of the Sahrawi… Read more »

Sudan: The Impact of the U.S.-Iran War On Sudan

In February 2026, the US and Israel went to war against Iran. Since then, there have been multiple attempts at partial de-escalation through negotiations. However, the recent… Read more »

Ethiopia: Tigray's Lost Classrooms - Why Education Must Be At the Centre of Recovery

The war in Tigray did not only destroy lives, homes, hospitals and livelihoods. It also attacked the foundations of the region's future by depriving an entire generation of… Read more »

Sudan: Sudan's Peace Process Is Negotiating a War That No Longer Exists

More than three years into Sudan's war, the battlefield has changed more than the peace process. The Sudanese Armed Forces, or SAF, recovered Khartoum and consolidated its hold… Read more »

Africa: African States Shouldn't Help the U.S. Endanger Refugees

Disembarking at an airport in Cameroon a few weeks ago, two Cameroonian women shook with fear. They had fled their country over a year before to seek asylum in the United States,… Read more »

Nigeria: Why Nigeria Must Return to Indigenous Cattle in Solving Farmer-Herder Clashes.

Historically, the image of a typical Southern Nigerian farmer was never complete without the muturu cattle breed grazing quietly behind the homestead. It was often tethered at the… Read more »

Sudan: Agriculture As the Foundation of Post-War Reconstruction in Sudan

A New Lens on Sudan's Recovery Read more »

Sudan: Beyond SAF and RSF - Why Sudan's War Cannot Be Understood Through Two Actors Alone

Throughout Sudan's war, most diplomatic efforts have treated the conflict as a struggle between two actors: the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).… Read more »

Somalia: Somalia in the Crosshairs - the Consequences of the Iran War On Somalia

The US-Israel war on Iran has had global ramifications in the cost of daily life and geopolitical calculations. Because of geographical proximity, political instability, and… Read more »

Africa: What Al-Shabaab Understands About Somali Authority

In south-central Somalia, a trader knows what to expect at an al-Shabaab checkpoint. The rate is fixed, set out in a published schedule. The receipt allows passage through the next… Read more »

Sudan: Why the RSF's Rapid Takeover Strategy in Sudan Failed

From the beginning of Sudan's war, the strategy pursued by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its supporting network relied on one central assumption: that the Sudanese military… Read more »