• Robtel Neajai Pailey

The Liberian academic and writer talks about citizenship, belonging, and what unites her fragmented nation.

• Bhakti Shringarpure

Because of the 1994 genocide, Rwanda occupies a complicated place in the world’s imagination. A new film, about the preceding 1973 pogrom, wants to demystify that view. Does it succeed?

• Rasna Warah

The United States’ military operations in Somalia are not well known because they'e carried out secretly or via proxies. COVID-19 hasn't slowed them down.

• Shannon Brincat

The climate crisis, resource extraction, and the insurgency by a group claiming affiliation to ISIL in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province.

• Melchisedek Chétima

Are the international community and the African Union really powerless to stop the fratricidal war in Cameroon, or are they just indifferent?

• David Tonghou Ngong

The use of a singular narrative to explain the divisions within Cameroon belies the reality that both anglophones and francophones are complicit in the conflict.

• Vincent Foucher

The French philosopher and TV personality favors spectacle over analysis. The result: we don't make sense of political violence in Nigeria.

• Sam Meyerson

War, peace, and cooperation among herder-farmers in northeastern Uganda.

• Kristof Titeca

A new film about Kony 2012 is a lesson in how not to fight simplification with more simplification.

• Daniel Eizenga

Burkina Faso's security crisis and its new status quo of permanent military intervention will test the resilience of its political institutions.

• Snetsehay Assefa

Does the peace deal between Ethiopia and Eritrea—now rewarded with a Nobel Prize—bring the kind of cooperation between the two countries that it aspired to do a year ago?

• Rahmane Idrissa

How local conflicts in the Sahel-Sahara over justice, or rather its absence, get dragged into tensions between outsiders.

• Aminu Dramani

What we know about conflicts over chieftaincy in northern Ghana.

• Godefroid Muzalia
• Koen Vlassenroot
• Aymar Nyenyezi
• An Ansoms
• Emery Mudinga

In the Bukavu Series, researchers from two Congolese and two European universities explore how they interrogate violence in the DRC.

• Montasir Ibrahim

Lasting peace in Sudan's Darfur region - 300,000 people dead and millions displaced by regime violence - should be a priority for #SudanUprising.

• Gregory Mann

Mali can't guarantee its citizens that it will protect them.

• Zachariah Mampilly

Youth activism and the politics of violence in South Sudan.

• Sarah Katz-Lavigne
• Dr. Jana Hönke

Policymakers need to properly assess the risks to ordinary Congolese people from expanding the “conflict minerals” category.

• Cedric Nunn

A series of photos documenting the contemporary state of the site of perhaps the most decisive battle in the liberation of Southern Africa.

• Enrica Picco
• Roger Duthie

It is key that peacemaking in the CAR prioritize inclusion of minorities, especially Muslim and Peuhl Central Africans.