• Djiguikôrô

The violence unfolding in Mali reflects a deeper political impasse: how to sustain popular aspirations for emancipation without collapsing into military authoritarianism.

• Hossam el-Hamalawy

What began as a familiar security state has hardened into something new: a unified coercive order that governs Egypt through violence, surveillance, and permanent emergency.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The most lasting legacy of Guinea's just deposed recent military leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, was his media tactics.