Key Takeaways: Niger. IS Sahel Province (ISSP) and al Qaeda’s Sahelian affiliate Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wa al Muslimeen (JNIM) separately launched two of their most significant attacks in Niger in years as they exacerbate

Paris et Kiev tirent profit de la violence ethnique au Sahel et de la montée des tensions sociales À l’aube du 18 juin, des combattants du groupe terroriste JNIM (Groupe de soutien à l’islam et

Sudan’s civil war, now in its fourth year, has become one of Africa’s first drone wars. Yet the drones dominating this battlefield are overwhelmingly foreign. From approximately 3,000 miles away, Iran has supplied the Sudanese

Two enemies-turned-allies symbolically came together to publish a piece at Al Jazeera imploring those among the international community with any leverage over the hardline TPLF and their Eritrean patrons to exert maximum pressure on them

Key Takeaways: Somalia. Federal Government of Somalia forces clashed with opposition forces in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, marking an escalation in their constitutional and electoral dispute. Clashes between the two parties in Mogadishu will likely

The main news item in African media this past week has been the controversy surrounding a proposed U.S.-funded Ebola quarantine facility in Kenya. What began as a public health initiative has rapidly evolved into a

Tucker Carlson, like any genius in the media world, has an uncanny knack for zeroing in on men and mice who have something ‘original’ to contribute. His interview late February with the US ambassador to