October 5, 2018
EthiopiaEthiopia’s new leader, Abiy Ahmed, is seeking aggressive reforms to put an end to discord and build on the country’s progress in recent decades, but a towering set of challenges threatens his agenda.
September 23, 2015
GlobalThe UN’s sweeping new development agenda aims to “provide the overarching narrative” of sustainable growth for the next fifteen years, yet critics say the Sustainable Development goals are broad, unf…
September 1, 2009
Sub-Saharan AfricaThe African Union succeeded the old Organization for African Unity (OAU) in 2002. Since then, the new institution has struggled to reform governing bodies inherited from the OAU while shouldering cha…
May 2, 2007
Sub-Saharan AfricaThe creation of a new U.S. military command for Africa signals the continent’s growing strategic importance and its many development challenges.
May 29, 2008
Terrorism and CounterterrorismA profile of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a militant Islamist group that is fully merged with al-Qaeda.
May 12, 2008
Rule of LawThough international observers had hoped Somalia’s transitional federal government would bring stability to the war-torn nation after sixteen years of “failed state” status, by mid-2008 experts said …
November 1, 2007
EthiopiaA profile of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), a separatist group operating in eastern Ethiopia.
August 3, 2006
Rule of LawA group of Islamist courts have seized power across much of Somalia. Many outside observers are anxiously watching—and interfering—as the power struggle plays out between the Islamists and the offici…