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Published in: openSecurityMali: a colonel in his labyrinthWestern states have reflexively diagnosed the continuing violence and lawlessness in Mali's fragmented north to the...
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Published in: openSecurityBoko Haram: completing the circle of liberal interventionism?Clarion calls on social media for action in Africa have once again become an excuse to flex military muscle, as the...
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Published in: openSecuritySouth Sudan: ending the bloodlettingThe international community has a responsibility to end the bloodletting in South Sudan. And neither of its...
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Published in: openSecurityBoko Haram: time for an alternative approachMilitary responses to Boko Haram have proved ineffective, as the latest atrocities in Nigeria highlight. An...
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Published in: openSecurityThe heavy imprint of America's 'light footprint'New documents reveal the blinding pace of US military operations in Africa as the Pentagon prepares for future wars.
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Published in: openSecurityFish rot from the headTorture is routine practice in South Africa's police stations and prisons. A lineage of impunity, traced from...
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Published in: openSecurityBack to the future: America's new model for expeditionary warfareIn a world of supposed cutbacks, the US military continues to quietly move into Africa in a distinctly...
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Published in: openSecurityFrançafrique and Africa’s securityCrises in Francophone Africa, as in Mali and the Central African Republic, cannot be solved by military action by...
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Published in: openSecurityCentral African Republic: history of a collapse foretold?Political instability and administrative weakness have been permanent features of the Central African Republic since...
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Published in: openSecuritySouth Sudan: explaining the violenceThe spiral of violence in South Sudan is not simply an ethnic conflict of Dinka on Nuer. Politics, as well as oil,...
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Published in: openSecurity"There is Marikana everyday in South Africa" - an interview with Abahlali baseMjondolo
Film: Struggling for the right to decent housing and against the criminalisation of poverty, South African shack...
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Published in: openSecurityMandela: explaining the magnetismWhile the world stops for Nelson Mandela’s departure from it, his iconic status is unquestioned. Yet there is a more...
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Published in: openSecurityEducation and violent extremism in Nigeria
For Boko Haram, 'western civilisation is forbidden'. In a context of poor school attendance among Muslims,...
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Published in: openSecurityFootsoldiers in a social war: the police, crime and inequality in South Africa
What does it mean to declare a 'war on crime' in one of the most unequal societies in the world? And how does...
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Published in: openSecurityPivot to Africa: AFRICOM's gigantic 'small footprint'Can a military tiptoe onto a continent? Via a hush-hush version of mission creep, the Pentagon and AFRICOM are...
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Published in: HomeA death in the CongoOn 18 August, Tjostolv Moland, a 32-year-old former officer of the Norwegian army, was found dead in his prison cell...
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Published in: HomeState-building vs intervention, or how not to help
Together, distorted understanding and flawed policy have compounded the problems of weak states in the global south....
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Published in: openSecurityMali's reconciliation attempt
With a UN peacekeeping force soon to be deployed to Mali, what are the prospects for the recently created Dialogue...
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Published in: openSecurityKenyatta in State House: what's next for Kenya and the ICC?
Kenyatta's election as president of Kenya could have important implications for the ICC process as well as Kenya's...
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Published in: openSecurityOur voices: Violence against women and impunity
Film: In this series of short films Burundian women look at key issues in the wake of the civil war, which ended in...
