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What if the most effective answer to Africa’s cross-border security threats isn’t a new military alliance or a fresh intervention force, but something far simpler: good neighborliness? That is the …
Can good neighborliness actually deliver African security? Benin puts the question to the AU in New York Read More
Senegal Will Senegal’s Diomaye Faye dissolve parliament? the high-stakes gamble facing Dakar President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has openly acknowledged his split with former ally Ousmane Sonko and left the door …
Will Senegal’s Diomaye Faye dissolve parliament? the high-stakes gamble facing Dakar Read More
A generation caught between digital promise and digital peril They inform, entertain and connect — but they can also manipulate, divide and expose. In Cameroon, social media has become an …
Cameroon’s youth and social media: what if the real problem isn’t the platforms? Read More
As Niamey temporarily revokes the nationality of several of its own citizens, the regime of General Abdourahamane Tiani continues to extend political protection to Kemi Seba, a Beninese national wanted …
Can Niamey shield Kemi Seba and still strip its own citizens of nationality? Read More
Economy Gabon vs. Washington on poultry: can a small nation defend its food sovereignty without breaking global trade rules? Libreville, Thursday, September 24, 2026 – The dispute between Libreville and …
Gabon vs. Washington on poultry: can a small nation defend its food sovereignty without breaking global trade rules? Read More
Can a national security strategy sustain credibility when it loses dozens of its own defenders in a single day? That question now hangs over Niger after September 23, 2026, a …
After Niger’s deadly September 23: how long can a security strategy absorb such losses? Read More
What matters more for a nation’s children: the weight of its debt or the way that debt is used? That is the question Côte d’Ivoire carried to New York on …
Debt or classrooms: which wins when Côte d’Ivoire bets on its children’s future? Read More
The rollout was stage-managed down to the smallest detail by the transition government’s communications apparatus: high-definition cameras, tight shots of gleaming armored vehicles, and martial rhetoric about the “rise to …
Is Burkina Faso’s Sky Dragon 30 the wrong answer to the right question? Read More
In Burkina Faso, the line between fighting armed extremism and suppressing religious freedom has never been so blurred. Under the guise of rooting out the terrorist threat that undermines the …
Can Burkina Faso’s anti-terror fight justify the crackdown on its majority Muslim community? Read More
The morning of a routine patrol in the Abala-Filingué department turned into a national tragedy. A unit of the Rapid Action Group for Surveillance and Intervention (GARSI) was ambushed by …
Can Niger’s GARSI recover after the Abala-Filingué ambush? Read More
A high-stakes question for Benin’s social inclusion drive Can a single card dismantle the barriers that have long kept persons with disabilities on the margins of society? That is the …
Can Benin’s 1,422 new chance equality cards finally end exclusion for people with disabilities? Read More
In the early hours of 23 September 2026, South Africa woke to yet another scene of unimaginable horror. At least eleven people, including a pregnant woman, were shot dead and …
KwaMakhutha massacre: is South Africa’s security apparatus losing the battle against organised crime? Read More