While many assessments in the days after the coup in August foresaw instability in the region, no doubt due to the similarities seen in 2012, no increased instability, whether in Mali nor the greater Sahel region, has happened so far.
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Oliver Hegglin November 26, 2020 Africa, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
While many assessments in the days after the coup in August foresaw instability in the region, no doubt due to the similarities seen in 2012, no increased instability, whether in Mali nor the greater Sahel region, has happened so far.
Read More »Mette Kaalby Vestergaard November 10, 2020 Africa, Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
The legal debate around the position of civilians in the combatant landscape can both have consequences for the rights of the individuals in question, and also for the legitimacy of the intervention by Western forces in the Sahel.
Read More »Mette Kaalby Vestergaard October 13, 2020 Africa, Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles
The 1994 Rwandan genocide is the most famous example of the power of language. This linguistic parallel between Cameroon and Rwanda is worrying, considering their similar history of discrimination patterns, human rights abuses and political exclusion of minority groups.
Read More »Alexa Reith May 6, 2019 Africa, Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles
The horrific scale of fatalities and types of crimes committed in Rwanda in 1994, shocked the globe and rightly triggered powerful shifts in reform and practice for the international domain.
Read More »Jonny Elswood December 7, 2018 Africa, Latest Articles, Sub-Saharan Africa
The world's collective health organisations are being put to the test in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as the ninth recorded Ebola outbreak seeps into an active conflict zone.
Read More »Fadzai Nkwenzi July 11, 2018 Africa, Latest Articles, Opinion
It has previously been suggested that Africa may not be one of the Trump Administration’s policy priorities. Evidently, the Trump administration has appeared to be more inclined in building stronger relationships with non-African countries[1]. Since taking office Trump and his ...
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