Africa: Caught Between Two Worlds - an African Student's Experience of the Ukrainian War

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South Sudan: Land Scarcity in Northern Bahr El Ghazal - Implications for Returns

Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Children and the Coltan Wars in Eastern Congo

With at least 40,000 coerced into mining coltan, and several global tech brands directly implicated in funding conflict, pressure needs to bear on stopping the war as an imperative… Read more »

Africa: Mau Mau - Mukami Kimathi's Swansong to a City At War

72 years after the Declaration of Emergency in Kenya triggered one of the bloodiest anti-colonial wars in history, little has changed for survivors. Read more »

Africa: State Fragmentation and New State Imaginaries - Maritime Access in the Horn of Africa

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Africa: Power Struggle in Tigray

As Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed continues to renege on the Pretoria Agreement that ended hostilities two years ago, infighting within the TPLF further threatens the tenuous stability in… Read more »

Africa: What Must Happen After the Summit of the Future?

What would the manifesto for a more inclusive world look like if it were drafted by people with disabilities? It was, a few weeks ago at a UN Summit. But is it enough? Read more »

Africa: The Deepfake Is a Powerful Weapon in the War in Sudan

While still rudimentary - voice-cloning models can't yet relay convincing Sudanese dialects - the use of Deepfakes is now routinely used on Sudan's violent, if bloodless,… Read more »

Somalia: Somalia in the Red Sea Arena - Tensions and Domestic Implications

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Sudan: Beyond the Battlefield - the Survival Politics of the RSF Militia in Sudan

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Africa: Did the Tumaini Initiative Exceed Its Mandate?

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Uganda: Uganda's Struggles Resettling Climate-Displaced Communities

Landslides and flash floods, made more likely by climate change, and deforestation have made some areas of Uganda permanently risky to live in. Read more »

Ethiopia: The Destruction and Looting of Heritage in the Tigray War

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Congo-Kinshasa: 'Making a Mockery' - Ending Fortress Conservation in DR Congo and Beyond

The court ruling on the rights of the expelled Batwa people could pave the way for the paradigm shift we need. Read more »

Egypt: The Failure of Militarized Diplomacy - Egypt's Coup and the Decline of Continental Hegemony

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Sudan: US Calls for Ceasefire - Sudan's Peace Process At a Crossroads

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Africa: The Long Shadow of German Colonialism

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Egypt: Cairo's Faustian Bargain With Brussels Sends Sudanese Refugees Back Into the Cauldron

The third deal the EU is signing with a 'partner' state since 2016, a cash-strapped Egypt did not hesitate to justify Europe's immigration paranoias for an infusion of euros. The… Read more »

Nigeria: The Jihadis Are Stalking Benin

Bandits from the Northern Nigerian hotspots of Zamfara and Katsina states are crossing over into northern Benin, buying up property and recruiting young men. Is this the moment… Read more »

Africa: The Drug Menace in the Heartland of the Boko Haram Insurgency

Referred to as 'Marlians' after British-Nigerian singer, Naira Marley, whose songs allegedly glorify the profane, they have become the face of a silent crisis in the wake of the… Read more »

Sudan: Mediation Pitfalls - How the Jeddah Peace Talks Complicate Sudanese Politics

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Africa: Eritrea At 33 - Exporting Internal Strife, Navigating Regional Tensions and Steadily Looking East

More than a generation since it won its hard-fought independence, Eritrea is synonymous with Isaias Afwerki. For better. Or for worse. Read more »

Sudan: Violence Is a Symptom of a Profound Collective Failure

The ongoing conflict is an existential threat to the very idea of Sudan, not to be solved by negotiations featuring the usual suspects working on the old power-sharing formula. Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: What Are the South Africans Doing in Eastern DRC?

Unlike the SADC contingent that defeated the M23 back in 2013, the SAMIDRC force's tentative approach to the spreading conflict is raising questions about South Africa's real… Read more »

Ethiopia: Displaced Yet Again - Ethiopian and Eritrean Refugee Subjectivities in War Torn Sudan

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