A rapid exit of AU troops from Somalia could hand a battlefield and propaganda advantage to al-Shabaab.
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Peacebuilding – Analyses
Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections look like their predecessors: stolen. But this one is a bit different. Opposition strategies and regional responses have changed too. What does this mean for the future?
Armed police interventions are unconstitutional and incapable of addressing housing and safety in the inner city.
Africa has made good progress towards reducing maternal mortality and newborn deaths over the past decade. But climate change is reversing the gains.
The rhetoric that presents the Amhara people as a national enemy has gone on, unchallenged, for far too long.
Indigenous knowledge of spiritual protection could help fight crime.
Africa’s future looks catastrophic if we don’t act now on climate change.
The French president has struggled to maintain the influence his country gained in Africa through colonialism.
Ghanaians measure the quality of education by examination scores.
Ali Bongo’s illness, the contagion effect of other recent successful coups and palace power tussles are factors responsible for Gabon’s recent coup.
The birth rate was lower and the death rate markedly higher in areas outside government control in the Central African Republic.
Russia is not interested in helping Africa to prosper or achieve stability, but as a theatre for advancing the Kremlin’s geostrategic interests.
The South African government must act on the ineffective and politics-ridden system of land leases and ensure that beneficiaries are getting secure land rights.
Ecowas made a mistake when it simultaneously imposed sanctions and threatened the use of force in Niger. It must now re-strategise.
Better monitoring of groundwater is important for sustainable management.
Inner city occupations and shack settlements alike are the inevitable consequence of the fact that huge populations of people have to get by without a living wage.
Failed developmental promises, ever shifting domestic elite alliances and popular demand for better living conditions contributed to the military removal of Gabon’s Ali Bongo Ondimba.
Women’s representation in Zimbabwe’s parliament has declined in spite of a quota imposed in 2013.
Lack of sea access has constrained Ethiopia’s ability to cater for its large population.
It would help African countries to have a common position on the Ukraine war. This should be based on its impact on food and energy security in the continent.
Boko Haram may be the unintended beneficiary of the crisis created by the recent coup in Niger.
Central to the DRC’s politics is a broken relationship between the seat of government in Kinshasa and underrepresented groups in the eastern region.
The disparate nature of the six prospective members is bound to spark debate about the real nature of Brics.
China is moving beyond oil and extractive commodities towards industrial production, job creation and investments that lead to exports.
The Sudanese state today betrays its history as a plunder state on the margins of the global order.