Analysis - Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the ...

This year has been an "annus horribilis" for those governments in sub-Saharan Africa that have had to face voters at the ...

Suddenly, everything is about a tiny, unrecognized state that few will ever have heard of: Somaliland. The fate of this piece ...

According to Afrobarometer’s inaugural flagship report for 2024 [PDF], support for democracy in Africa remains robust: ...

But even as ties have grown in recent years, Washington’s foreign policy establishment still considers Africa to be a ...

A cornerstone of any successful independence movement is the combination of two elements: a clear public mandate for self-determination and the recognition of the international community. ’ ...

On World Cheetah Day, observed annually on 4 December, attention was drawn to the cheetah’s vulnerability. With fewer than ...

Landlocked Ethiopia, which has thousands of troops in Somalia to fight al Qaeda-linked insurgents, has angered the Mogadishu ...

Kenyan President William Ruto and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni engage in mediation between Ethiopia and Somalia over a ...

Landlocked Ethiopia has fallen out with Somalia over its plans to build a port in the breakaway region of Somaliland ...

Kenyan President William Ruto and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni aim to mediate a dispute involving Ethiopia, Somalia, and ...

The government of Somalia's semi-autonomous Jubbaland state said on Thursday it was suspending relations and cooperation with ...