• Achille Tenkiang

Akinola Davies Jr’s feature-length debut traces how Nigeria’s military rule collapsed the boundary between political crisis and intimate life, leaving families to bear the cost of authoritarian power.

• Yusuf Bangura

Trump’s threats of military action against Nigeria are not about Christian genocide, but are about rare earths, China, and the scramble to control Africa’s mineral future.

• Moustafa Ahmad

Half a century after the Soviets built their base on the Gulf of Aden, the same strategic coastline is once more drawing in foreign powers, old and new.

• Abdelkader Abderrahmane

Despite the popularity of the Sahel's military leaders internationally, most Malians have yet to see improvement to their material conditions at home.

• Deborah Ndjerareou

Breaking from ECOWAS and Western influence, the Alliance of Sahel States signals a geopolitical shift — but can it deliver real stability?

• Loren Balhorn

As the far right surges and the center crumbles, can Germany’s left offer something different — or will reactionary forces set the agenda?

• Daniel Ekonde

Mahamat Déby’s rule in Chad follows a familiar script of military power, political repression, and shifting alliances in an increasingly unstable Sahel.

• Manasseh Azure Awuni

As Ghana heads to the polls, its democratic promise fades amid economic turmoil, corruption, and disillusionment, leaving voters to choose between two flawed options.

• William Decourt
• Spenser Warren

Western missteps in Africa are creating an opening for Russia to deepen its influence.

• Andreas Bohne
• Fredson Guilengue

The EU’s military involvement in West Africa, the Gulf of Guinea, South Sudan, and East Africa is well-known. But one mission on the continent has gone relatively unnoticed.

• Andreas Bohne
• Fredson Guilengue

Todos sabem do envolvimento militar da União Europeia (EU) na África Ocidental, no Golfo da Guiné, no Sudão do Sul e na África Oriental. No entanto, uma missão no continente passou relativamente despercebida.

• Bruno Huberman
• Sabrina Fernandes

Imagining and demanding the decolonization of Palestine means acting to decolonize all the colonial states in the world, from Brazil to Australia, including the USA and Chile.

• Tamás Gerőcs

What’s fueling the military takeovers sweeping across West and Central Africa?

• Elizabeth Schmidt

For all the coverage about Kamala Harris' Afrobeats Spotify playlist, or her search for her grandfather’s house in Lusaka, her African trip is about shoring up US positions.

• Ambroise Jean-Léon

The so-called 'Haitian crisis' is primarily about outsiders' attempts force Haitians to live under an imposed order and the latter's resistance to that order.

• Samar Al-Bulushi

Somalis have enough to worry about. The last thing they need is more war, especially one sponsored by the United States’ War on Terror.

• William Shoki

This week, AIAC talks with Dr. Lassane Ouedraogo on what's behind the coup in Burkina Faso.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

With the recent series of military coups, especially in West Africa, what is left for the future of politics on the African continent?

• Alex Park

The CIA committed many crimes in the early days of post-independence Africa. But is it fair to call their interference “recolonization”?

• Scott Timcke

What does the expansion of artificial intelligence in warfare look like in West Africa and other US military outposts?