A short-lived military coup in Mali highlights the complex crisis unfolding in the country's north, where armed groups and religious networks are active among a disaffected Tuareg population. Both immediate measures and an intelligent medium-term strategy are needed to preserve the nation's unity
The South Sudanese People's Liberation Army has moved into an oil town on the South Sudan/ Sudan border. While nationalist sentiment runs high, the newly separated states can ill afford renewed conflict: political dialogue is both difficult and urgent.
Vingt ans de conflit ont détruit le tissu social en Casamance. Le seul mode de rétablir la sécurité et d’éradiquer la famine dans une zone qui fut considérée autrefois comme le grenier du Sénégal c’est de demander aux agricultrices, dit Tabara Ndiaye
Twenty years of conflict has destroyed the social fabric of Casamance. The only way to re-instate security and eradicate famine in an area once known as the bread-basket of Senegal is to ask the women farmers, says Tabara Ndiaye
In ganging up on housing estates, in racist attacks or inter-state brinkmanship, how does the enemy become the Other? This peculiar purification process requires a narrative and a chance to 'perform a boundary'. For local and national communities, leaders and politicians alike, it is one way to re
After a quarter century of armed conflict, and a socio-economic fabric reduced to shreds, women in Casamance, Senegal, are winning the right to access land and rebuild peace, says Fatou Guèye
In conversation with Jessica Horn, a leading Malian women’s rights activist identifies the roots of the crisis in Mali, and the opportunistic use of the crisis by Malian and international Islamic fundamentalists to gain a popular foothold in the north of the country
The global power-balance is being changed by the rise of the non-western "Brics" states. This makes the pioneering work of a body committed to linking trade and development in the interest of the world's poor more relevant than ever.
How much support is there 'on the street' for the protesters?
On Monday, violence returned to Habib Bourghiba Avenue, a vital site on which protests led to the fall of former President Zine Abidine Ben Ali’s regime. For some, it feels like little has changed in the year since the revolution.
Wednesday, 11 April is the date of a general strike in Tunisia called from Sidi Bouzid, the town which sparked the Arab uprisings.
