Boko Haram, a violent islamist group operating in Nigeria, is often linked to Al-Qaeda and Somalia jihadists Al-Shabab, though there is no evidence to support these claims. Christopher Anzalone investigates the position of Boko Haram in international jihad looking at its profile in jihadi media so
Development and peace in Ethiopia are hampered by a poor social network infrastructure, low trust between the people and the government and low trust between ethnic groups. Conventional cultural unity would harmonise a peace by strengthening the psychological attachments between Ethiopians.
Come and hear about hip hop - whose goal is to bring people together outside of violence in the Arab uprisings
People shouldn't divide Arabic rappers into pro- and anti-revolution camps and castigate one side - the Arabic hip-hip scene is too nuanced and complex for that. But if unity only comes at the expense of social justice, the Arab world will be even worse off than before.
Deals struck in foreign capitals over power-sharing and constitutional arrangements do nothing to address the deep issues that perpetuate conflict. When existing institutions are irrelevant or inimical to many ordinary people, as they are today in much of Somalia, new institutions need to tap into
The push to police the way that women dress continues across Africa on the pretext that it causes sexual harassment and violence against women. What really underlies this censorship of women’s expression? asks Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
En Janvier 2011, la Cour constitutionnelle au Sénégal a jugé que le président Abdoulaye Wade, à l'origine élu au pouvoir en 2000, pourrait briguer un troisième mandat. Wade,
Interestingly, the American Congress has repeatedly demanded the cessation of military funds to Egypt, especially after the Egyptian authorities raided and shut down their offices housing American civil society organisations.
It is the people that must defeat Abdoulaye Wade, not the political leaders who he sees as his primary opposition. Political leaders have no place in the streets, the battle for democracy belongs to the people themselves, says, Aissatou Cissé
It’s not an individualist but a collective feminism that we need, one that measures success not by how high a woman can climb, but by the condition in which most women remain, says Shereen Essof
After decades of frosty relations between Egypt and Iran, the end of the Mubarak regime seems to open new opportunities for a rapprochement. Islamic political actors in both countries are at a forefront of such evolution, yet they can do little against enduring competition between both Middle-East
