This post is part of the Council on Foreign Relations’ blog series on human trafficking, in which CFR fellows and other leading experts assess new approaches to improve U.S. and global efforts to cur…

[Voters in Africa’s most populous country and largest economy cast ballots for a new leader in the Feb. 25 Nigerian general elections. Here are answers to some essential questions about the vote]

Desperate to will a preferred candidate to victory, Western journalists fell into a tunnel vision on Nigerian politics.

The Igbo political elite faces the challenge of transforming an unimpeachable moral argument into a winning political coalition.

The apparent success of the military coup in Niger bodes ill for democracy and stability in the Sahel and the rest of the continent.

As 2023 comes to a close, here are ten Americans we lost this year who made a mark in foreign policy.