by Ambra Visentin
West African army chiefs of staff began meeting in Ghana on Thursday to discuss a possible armed intervention in Niger following the military-led coup that overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum on 26 July and put General Abdourahamane Tiani...
by Alice Pistolesi
“The Sahel region is marked by a proliferation of ‘failed States,’ where the culture of militarisation has overshadowed political and democratic processes, and the military has positioned itself as the saviour of the nation,” explains professor Tamburini....
By Priti Gulati Cox & Stan Cox (*) – TomDispatch
It’s been devastating, even if no one’s paying attention. Three months of fighting in Sudan between the army and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Force (RSF) has left...
By David L. Dambre* - Modern Diplomacy, Othernews
The real reason the Chinese are in Africa may have yet to be discovered. However, from their aggressive style of diplomacy, one can quickly notice where they are heading and the extent...
by Ambra Visentin
An international summit “to understand how to help the countries that migrants leave, and how to stop the trafficking and the traffickers”. These were the declared aims of the International Conference on Development and Migration held yesterday...
by Marta Cavallaro
The decision came last Friday as the UN Security Council gathered to determine the fate of MINUSMA, its peacekeeping operation in Mali. Following the unanimous vote by the current 15 Security Council members, MINUSMA’s mandate is officially...
by Ambra Visentin
Last Friday, suspected Islamists attacked and set fire to a Ugandan school and its dormitories in the town of Mpdonwe, near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 42 people, almost all of them children....
Peace-building operation of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD), also known as the Henry Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, is a Swiss NGO that has been working since 1999 to prevent and resolve armed conflicts around the world through...
By Emanuele Giordana
"Angelo Del Boca had the ability to go beyond military, diplomatic and purely institutional history. He had a tension that looked at people and not just at structures”. This sentence by Valeria Deplano, a young scholar at...
By Hilal Khashan* – Geopolitical Futures. This article appeared first on our partner website Othernews.
Since declaring its independence in 1956, Sudan has been beset by conflict. The country lies in an unstable region on the edge of the Red Sea,...
