Farm attacks are a serious crime problem requiring dedicated law enforcement attention, but they do not amount to genocide. They represent a small part of violent crime overall in South Africa and ...

Somalia's EAC membership offers strategic and economic gains, but security threats, weak institutions and governance fragility pose integration challenges.

In most of Africa – 33 out of 55 countries – homosexuality is a crime punishable by imprisonment. This year alone, six states (Kenya, Ghana, Namibia, Niger, Tanzania and Uganda) have taken steps to ...

In December 2021, at the height of the war between Ethiopia’s federal government and Tigrayan forces, authorities established a National Dialogue Commission to resolve differences of opinion on ...

About 30 million more Africans fell into extreme poverty (living on less than US$1.90 a day) when COVID-19 broke out in 2020. Before the pandemic struck, over 445 million people – equivalent to 34% of ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the world’s leading cobalt producer, contributing around 70% to global production. However, complex levels of organised crime occur along the supply chain ...

The African Union’s (AU) 2025 theme – Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations – has revived discussions initiated over 30 years ago in the Abuja Proclamation and ...

Your browser does not support the video tag. ©Institute for Security Studies Public officials and politicians routinely blame immigrants for a range of social and ...

Kenyan President William Ruto last week made the first state visit to the United States (US) by an African leader in 16 years, and only the sixth state visit President Joe Biden has hosted since he ...

This report examines Kenya's digital information ecosystem in the run-up to, during and after the August 2022 election. Online influence and coordinated disinformation campaigns during Kenya’s August ...

Relations between Kenya and Somalia have been strained for some time over economic and maritime boundary issues. But new alliances in the region are now making the situation worse. The latest dispute ...

West Africa’s lucrative gold trade has a costly dark side. Discrepancies in data on gold production and trade between Mali and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) expose a massive illegal business ...