Category Africa

Africa, Energy & Environment

Water Security & The Maghreb

Hafed Al-Ghwell
October 18, 2023

North African states and communities are no strangers to careful water management and its relevance to effective governance in challenging times. Old underground water channels, ingenious methods of water storage and collection, to today’s dams and hydropower projects, are time-spanning…

Africa, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

Sudan: A Tinderbox to All-Out War

Hafed Al-Ghwell
June 19, 2023

Violent clashes between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the infamous paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have plunged Sudan into crisis and renewed instability. In mid-April of 2023, brief gun battles in the streets of Khartoum and other strategic areas…

Africa, Civil Society, Economics, Policy & Politics, Regional, Security & Conflict, Topical

The Gendered Impact of Displacement in East African Refugee Camps

Kyilah Terry, Aishwarya Rai, and Asa Cooper
March 8, 2023

Kyilah Terry is a Princeton in Africa Fellow in Nairobi, Kenya. She previously worked as a Policy Fellow with the Office of the Vice President. Kyilah holds a B.A. from UCLA, a M.A. from Georgetown University, and is matriculating into…

Africa, Economics, Europe, International Development, Policy & Politics, Regional, Security & Conflict, Topical

Why the Global Skills Partnership between Morocco and Belgium is a Positive-Sum Game

Limon B. Rodriguez
November 28, 2022

Limon B. Rodriguez is a doctoral candidate in international affairs with a specialization in development economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Tensions emerge between, on the one hand, labor shortages in higher-income countries in a…

Africa, Asia Pacific, Middle East, North America, Policy & Politics, Regional, Security & Conflict, Topical

Countering Terror in Transition: A Typology of Terrorist Organization Successors and their Vulnerabilities

Tricia L. Bacon and Elizabeth Grimm
November 15, 2022

Dr. Tricia Bacon is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Affairs at American University. Dr. Elizabeth Grimm is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. One of the singular challenges for a…

Africa, Civil Society, Policy & Politics, Regional, Security & Conflict, Topical

Reunification monument in Yaounde, Cameroon

Global Responses to Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis: The Inadequate International Efforts to End the World’s Most Neglected Conflict

Jude Mutah
November 8, 2022

Jude Mutah is a program officer for Africa at the National Endowment for Democracy. Background The conflict in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon is a civil war that started in 2017 between Cameroonian security forces and non-state armed separatist groups…

Africa, Civil Society, Governance & Law, Policy & Politics, Regional, Security & Conflict, Topical

Civil Society, Coups, and the Future of Burkina Faso

Evan Horn
August 25, 2022

Burkina Faso’s rich history has been marked by violent fluctuations between military juntas and pushback from civil society, resulting in a state that lies somewhere in between. Modern Burkina Faso’s leadership nominally supports civil liberties and political freedoms but has…

Africa, International Development

Moroccan Decentralization: Towards Community Development and National Solidarity

Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir
September 16, 2021

Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir first introduced us to development and decentralization in Morocco in 2018. In this new piece, he re-examines and updates Morocco’s progress towards sustainable development. Background on Moroccan Decentralization Decentralization in the Kingdom of Morocco—aiming to make unprecedented…

Africa, Governance & Law, Policy & Politics

Power, Strategy, and Outcomes in Negotiations in The Gambia

Nick Bailey
May 19, 2021

Introduction According to Bill Zartman, power is defined as the “ability by one party to move another in an intended direction.”[1]Power relates to physical force, but many aspects of power move beyond force. Weaker parties often form coalitions, appeal to…

Africa, Policy & Politics

Africa Is Not a Region, and Policymakers Should Stop Treating It Like One

Michael Keen
February 11, 2021

With the new presidential administration in the United States, numerous articles have been published which suggest initiatives for the Biden administration, including from such Washington institutions as the Council on Foreign Relations,[1] the Center for Strategic and International Studies,[2] and Foreign Policy magazine.[3] Many innovative…

Africa, Regional, Security & Conflict, Uncategorized

The African Union’s Institutional Approach to Transnational Terrorism

Linda McMullen
April 6, 2020

This paper examines the African Union's (AU) institutional approach to transnational terrorism. Specifically, its approaches in combating Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Boko Haram, and al-Shabaab.

Africa, Economics, Policy & Politics

How a Population of 4.2 Billion Could Impact Africa by 2100: The Possible Economic, Demographic, and Geopolitical Outcomes

Ibrahim B. Anoba
September 24, 2019

Since the United Nations released the 2017 edition of its annual World Population Prospects report that predicted a surge in the population of Africa as early as 2050, African leaders and development economists have debated how the continent should prepare. This article analyzes Africa's looming demographic explosion and its likely consequences to help provide the foundational knowledge required for African leaders to make informed policy decisions.