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April 8, 2024

LGBTQ+
How (Not) to Talk About Sex in Africa

It is time the LGBTQ+ coalition changed its strategy on the continent.

Somone holds up a pride fan with rainbow colors.

March 4, 2024

Chad
Chad’s “Democratic” Transition

In assessing Chad’s upcoming elections, the junta’s actions should speak louder than their words.    

Delegates wait for Chad’s transitional president General Mahamat Idriss Deby to arrive ahead of an inauguration meeting of a coalition of parties for his candidacy for the presidential election set for May, in N'Djamena, Chad on March 2, 2024.

February 15, 2024

Sudan
United States Lacks Strategic Clarity on the Horn of Africa

The recent flurry of congressional and executive attention on Sudan needs to be married to a long-term strategy toward the Horn of Africa. 

Aid provided by the World Food Program is seen in Adre Camp in Adre, Chad, on November 8, 2023

January 10, 2024

Somalia
New Deals Open Old Wounds in the Horn of Africa

An already tense security environment in the Horn of Africa is growing even more perilous.

Somali protesters march against the Ethiopia-Somaliland port deal at the Yarisow stadium in Mogadishu, Somalia on January 3, 2024.

May 28, 2021

Sub-Saharan Africa
U.S. Push for a Global Clean Energy Transition Can Start in Africa

The new US Climate Finance Plan aims to double contributions to climate funding for developing countries. A renewed emphasis on emerging economies is good news for the climate -- but in presenting support as “protecting the world’s poorest” and helping “communities in need,” the Plan reflects old thinking. 

Kenya's Energy Minister Charles Keter addresses engineers at the power substation of the Lake Turkana Wind Power project (LTWP) in Loiyangalani district, Marsabit County, northern Kenya, September 4, 2018.

November 2, 2023

United States
Peru’s Elections in Doubt Plus, APEP Kicks Off and the Protest Risk to the Green Transition

Peru’s unpopular congress and attorney general move to undermine 2026 elections; APEP kicks off, focus narrowed; Protests could hold back Latin America’s role in the green transition.

Photo of demonstration against President Dina Boluarte

March 10, 2021

Grand Strategy
Coup-Proofing: Russia’s Military Blueprint to Securing Resources in Africa

In the Central African Republic (CAR), outside the capital Bangui, President Faustin-Archange Touadéra exerts little to no authority. Armed rebel groups control two-thirds of the country, including access to mining sites.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Faustin Archange Touadera of the Central African Republic walk towards each other, arms outstretched as they prepare to shake hands.

August 15, 2023

Sub-Saharan Africa
Democracy in Name Only for Africa

Three decades after the fight for multiparty democracy in Africa, many on the continent still face sham elections, restrictions of rights, and few improvements.

A voter casts their ballot for the national election at a polling station in Freetown, Sierra Leone on June 24, 2023.