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![<p>ASEAN Leaders stand for photos at the 46th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.</p>]()
![<p>Activists from the opposition party Citizens Coalition for Change arrested for holding a political gathering which authorities said was unauthorized arrive at the Magistrates’ courts in Harare, Zimbabwe on June 18, 2024.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>A view shows the empty seats of Mali and Guinea during the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) summit in Abuja, Nigeria on July 7, 2024.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>Gabon’s transitional president General Brice Oligui Nguema salutes as he is inaugurated, in Libreville, Gabon on September 4, 2023. </p>]()
By Alexandra Dent![<p>Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa takes an oath of office during his inauguration at the National Sports Stadium in Harare, Zimbabwe on September 4, 2023. </p>]()
By Michelle Gavin- Backgrounder
The Arab League
![<p>Deletes meet for the annual meeting at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo in 2016.</p>]()
![<p>A civilian carries a sign at a protest in support for the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) soldiers, following renewed tensions around Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo on October 31, 2022.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) peacekeepers are seen with civilians as they patrol areas affected by the recent attacks by M23 rebels fighters in North Kivu, east Congo in March 2022. </p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>Captain Sidsore Kader Ouedraogo, spokesman for the Patriotic Movement for Safeguarding and Restoration, announces that the army has taken control of the country in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on January 24, 2022.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>A barricade is set ablaze in the road during a protest in Mbabane, eSwatini, June 29, 2021.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>Benin’s President Patrice Talon talks to African Union observers after casting his ballot at a polling station in Cotonou, Benin on April 11, 2021.</p>]()
By John Campbell![<p>Women sit inside a displacement center after fleeing an attack claimed by Islamic State-linked insurgents on the town of Palma, in Pemba, Mozambique on April 2, 2021.</p>]()
By John Campbell![<p>Security officials stand guard as people wait for friends and relatives as a ship carrying more than 1,000 people fleeing an attack claimed by Islamic State-linked insurgents on the town of Palma, docks in Pemba, Mozambique on April 1, 2021.</p>]()
By John Campbell![<p>UN Special Envoy James Baker with Polisario Front leader Mohamed Abdelaziz after he landed in a refugee camp in Algeria on April 27, 1997. Baker arrived on the last leg of a tour of northern Africa to tackle the dispute over control of Western Sahara.</p>]()
By Guest Blogger for Africa in Transition![<p>Workers carry a coffin to the display area at the Kingsize Coffins manufacturing plant, amid a nationwide coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown, in Benoni, South Africa on January 25, 2021.</p>]()
By John Campbell![<p>French soldiers of the 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment conduct an area control operation in the Gourma region during the Operation Barkhane in Ndaki, Mali on July 27, 2019.</p>]()
By John Campbell![<p>A distressed and rough U.S. flag appears on rusty metal.</p>]()
By Paul B. Stares, Qingguo Jia, Nathalie Tocci, Dhruva Jaishankar and Andrey Kortunov![<p>A man casts his ballot at a polling station during the presidential election in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, on November 24, 2019. </p>]()
By Guest Blogger for John Campbell![<p>Guinea’s President Alpha Conde attends the opening of the 54th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, in Abuja, Nigeria, on December 22, 2018.</p>]()
By Guest Blogger for John Campbell![<p>ASEAN leaders shake hands on stage during the opening ceremony of the 34th ASEAN Summit at the Athenee Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand on June 23, 2019</p>]()
By Joshua Kurlantzick![<p>Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop talks during a media conference after holding the 8th foreign minister’s meeting known as MIKTA (Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey and Australia) in Sydney, Australia.</p>]()
By Stewart M. Patrick and Guest Blogger for the Internationalist
