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Released students from the Government Science Secondary school, in Kankara, Nigeria after an attack by Boko Haram

Don’t Discount America’s Interest in Keeping Africa Safe

The Defense Department’s coming near-total withdrawal of troops from Somalia follows its 2019 re-assessment of its force posture in Africa, aimed at shifting finite resources to great power…

Maj. Scott D. Adamson 15 January 2021

Left to Right: Abiy, Lourenço, Ramaphosa, Tshisekedi, and Buhari. (Reuters)

Africa’s Democratic Moment?

In the 60-plus years since the countries of sub-Saharan Africa started becoming independent, democracy there has advanced unevenly. During the Cold War, many African states turned into Soviet-…

Judd Devermont and Jon Temin 05 July 2019

People Power Is Rising in Africa

A new tide of people power is rising inAfrica. OnApril 2, a nonviolent resistance movement inAlgeriasucceeded in pressuringAbdelaziz Bouteflikato resign after 20 years as president. Nine days…

Zoe Marks Erica Chenoweth and Jide Okeke 03 May 2019

The Retreat of African Democracy

In the decade following the Cold War, Africa saw many democratic success stories. In 1991,BeninandZambiawere the first former dictatorships to hold multiparty elections after the fall of theSoviet…

Nic Cheeseman and Jeffrey Smith 25 January 2019

Sahle-Work Zewde: Ethiopia’s First Female President

Illustrated by: Ali El Mandalawy 1: SLIGHTLY ABOVE HUMBLE BEGINNINGS Once upon a time in Ethiopia, during the reign of the country’s last Emperor Haile Selassie, there was…

Moncef El Mazgheny 09 November 2018

African Heads of State pose for a group photo ahead of the start of the 28th African Union summit in Addis Ababa on January 30, 2017. (Getty)

A Post-American Africa

Africa is transforming rapidly, and the United States’ approach to Africa is not keeping pace. While other countries are jumping at opportunities to invest in growing African economies, the United…

Reuben Brigety 31 August 2018

How Africa Is Bucking the Isolationist Trend

[caption id="attachment_55256422" align="alignnone" width="940"] President of Chad Idriss Deby (R) and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame show their Africa passport designed to allow free travel…

Majalla 01 June 2018

The Key to Making Peace in Africa

[caption id="attachment_55255917" align="aligncenter" width="5000"] A newly released child soldier looks through a rifle trigger guard during a release ceremony for child soldiers in Yambio, South…

Majalla 23 March 2018

South Africa's Healthy Democracy

[caption id="attachment_55255572" align="aligncenter" width="3600"] President of South Africa Jacob Zuma addresses the nation at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on February 14, 2018. (Getty)[/caption…

Majalla 23 February 2018

The Alarming Decline of Democracy in East Africa

[caption id="attachment_55262650" align="aligncenter" width="2835"] Mulatu Teshome (R) President of Ethiopia welcomes President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (L) at presidency building in Addis…

Jon Temin 01 December 2017

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