Africa
Coverage across North, West, East, Central, and Southern Africa, from insurgency to interstate tension.
96 Dispatches
Why the World Is Ignoring Sudan's Devastating Civil War
Discover the geopolitical factors, media fatigue, and tactical information blackouts causing the world to ignore Sudan's devastating civil war.
Why Is Africa Suffering So Many Coups?
Analysis of the wave of military coups sweeping Africa since 2020, examining French colonial ties, economic collapse, contagion effects, and geopolitical
Amhara Crisis: Is Ethiopia the Next Yugoslavia?
How the Fano uprising in Ethiopia's Amhara Region threatens to spiral into broader ethnic conflict, and why analysts fear a Yugoslav-style collapse.
Why the World Ignored the 21st Century's Deadliest War
How Ethiopia's Tigray War killed an estimated 600,000 people between 2020 and 2022 while the world looked away, and what an information blackout meant for
How Mussolini's Fascists Prepared Italy for World War II
How Mussolini rose from street agitator to dictator, consolidated fascist control over Italy, and dragged the nation into World War II alongside Hitler.
The Nigerian Civil War: Nigeria's Deadly War of Ethnicities
How ethnic tensions, oil politics, and Cold War rivalries fueled the Nigerian Civil War and the Biafran secession that killed over 2 million people.
The Congo Wars: Africa's World War and Its Devastating Legacy
How the First and Second Congo Wars pulled nine nations into Africa's deadliest conflict, killing over 5 million people and reshaping Central Africa.
Sudan's Ignored Genocide and the Tragic Fall of El-Fasher
The international community ignored the escalating genocide in Sudan. Explore the brutal fall of El-Fasher and the devastating cost of global inaction.
From the Favelas to Global Fronts: The Shifting Calculus of Modern Warfare
Analyze the shifting landscape of global warfare, from deadly police raids in Brazil to emerging defense suppliers and potential US action in Nigeria.
Sudan's Partition: Ethnic Cleansing and the Push for a Divided State
As the RSF declares a parallel government in Darfur, Sudan faces brutal ethnic cleansing, massive famine, and the looming threat of partition.
Nigeria: The Failing State the World is Ignoring
Nigeria is teetering on the edge of becoming a failed state, ravaged by overlapping insurgencies, massacres, and systemic corruption while the world looks
UAE's Regional Proxy Network Collapses: Middle East Realignment Against Abu Dhabi
The United Arab Emirates' ambitious strategy of supporting proxy forces and non-state actors across the Middle East and North Africa has suffered a