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February 5, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
Tracking the Traffickers: The Debate over Legalizing Trade in Rhino Horn

This is a guest post by Emily Mellgard, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. 2014 has had a bad beginning with respect to the preservation of Africa’s rema…

Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) wardens wait for a tranquillised male white rhinoceros to collapse to the ground, before implanting a radio transmitter, at the Lake Nakuru National park in Kenya's Rift Valley, 160 km (99 miles) west of the capital Nairobi, November 8, 2013.
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell Africa in Transition

October 20, 2011

Kenya
Dedieu’s Death Focuses World Attention on Kidnapping and Piracy in the Horn

Marie Dedieu, who was kidnapped from Ras-Kitau on Manda island and taken hostage, is pictured in this undated handout photo released to Reuters on October 3, 2011. (Ho New/Courtesy Reuters) A heavil…

Dedieu’s Death Focuses World Attention on Kidnapping and Piracy in the Horn
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

July 26, 2011

International Organizations
Catastrophe in the Horn: Causes and Responses

Newly arrived Somali refugees sit in the open as they await medical examinations for their children at the Dadaab refugee camp, near the Kenya-Somalia border (STR New/ Courtesy Reuters). The area st…

Catastrophe in the Horn: Causes and Responses
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist

June 19, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea Greater than in the Horn of Africa

It is official. There is more piracy in the Gulf of Guinea now than off the coast of Somalia. The International Maritime Bureau (IMB), Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP), and the Maritime Piracy Humanitarian…

An Ivory Coast gendarmerie boat is seen at the port of Abidjan, April 23, 2013.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

December 28, 2023

Ethiopia
Ethiopia in Troubled Waters

Ethiopia has struggled to recover from the fallout of the Tigray conflict, with few signs of improvement for 2024. 

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Army Chief of General Staff, Birhanu Jula, watch a military parade during the 116th celebration of the Ethiopian Defense Force in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on October 26, 2023.
Blog Post by Michelle Gavin Africa in Transition

February 3, 2023

United States
Ten Facts About the State of the Union Address

President Biden delivers his second State of the Union speech next Tuesday night. Here are ten things you might not know about the tradition of having a president deliver an annual address.

Biden SOTU
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge