African Arguments
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - 07:53
What Zindeko’s leadership will mean for the future of Seleka, and CAR, remains to be seen. But perhaps now there will no longer be any excuses for failure to take him and other dispossessed rural Central Africans and the conflicts they’re enmeshed in seriously. As powerful as president-makers in Ndjamena and Paris might be, Zindeko, too, is here to stay.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 07:00
The news that over 200 school children were last week abducted by the Boko Haram terrorist group in North East Nigeria makes for depressing reading.
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 10:05
Very good news on Wednesday when Barclays Bank agreed to give Dahabshiil, the Somali remittance company, sufficient time to find another way of transferring money from the UK and elsewhere to Somalia before closing its account with them. Up to $2 billion a year is sent from Somali exiles to their families back home, mainly through Dahabshiil.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 10:42
Amidst the rubble of the destroyed mosque of Zèré, in the middle of the Central African Republic, kids mock the Muslim mode of praying. They push their bottoms in to the air and jeer: “Allah, get the hell out of here “. The elderly also join in and shout: “We never want to see them here anymore.”
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 07:25
It’s precisely a year to the day since the Jubilee alliance took control of Kenya’s government under a cloud of controversy over a flawed election and uncertainty about how the world would respond to a government led by suspected war criminals.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 09:26
After months of emergency rule and military operations in Nigeria’s north-east, a few weeks ago Boko Haram launched a comprehensive and audacious assault on Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state. In a multi-pronged attack, hundreds of insurgents reportedly targeted the city’s military barracks, Maiduguri University, and an area where civil servants are known to live.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 07:01
With the wide spread of protracted political problems, complex emergencies, and failed states, issues of entitlement and humanitarian access have come under real test by both donors and humanitarian actors.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 06:45
As the twentieth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide approaches, the international community once again faces questions about the definition of genocide, how and when to intervene to protect civilians and at what cost.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 06:44
Last week’s attack on a Likoni church in the coastal city of Mombasa, and the subsequent Eastleigh blast in Nairobi, are grim reminders of the precarious state of Kenya’s security. If the current situation is not judiciously handled, it could easily be exploited and then morph into a sectarian conflict.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 07:47
The conflict between radical Islamists and the government of Nigeria is little noted in the United States compared with the attention paid to that in Somalia, where al-Shabaab militants have battled what little federal authority exists there for the past nine years.