The precipitous decline in funding for humanitarian assistance has made headlines around the world. In Nigeria, reports indicate that reductions in the delivery of food assistance, nutrition programming, and health services have already affected hundreds of thousands of people. According to the 2026 Nigeria Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP), 7.3 million people are already […]
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The latest review of UN peace operations comes just over a decade after the report of the High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (HIPPO). Much has changed in the past 10 years, yet the evolution of the UN’s partnership with regional organizations, particularly the African Union (AU), has been far from linear. Despite significant milestones […]
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The lives and livelihoods of local communities in the borderlands of the Lake Chad Basin are disrupted by both climate change and conflict, which are mutually reinforcing. Conflict undermines social cohesion and public trust and degrades the ability of communities to adapt to the effects of climate change. At the same time, climate change adds […]
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Wako-Ojiwa and Knudsen on violence against women in Kenyan politics ahead of 2027.
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In February 2025, African heads of state gathered in Addis Ababa to announce a bold challenge to the global financial order: the continent will launch its own credit rating agency. The move follows years of mounting frustration over the penalty African countries pay due to systematically higher borrowing rates compared to their peers in Asia […]
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Since the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured the city of El Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region on October 27th, there have been horrific reports of widespread atrocities, including killings in hospitals and mass burials, and satellite imagery shows the streets stained with blood. Thousands remain trapped in the city, and the UN has confirmed famine […]
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This year’s High-Level Week of the UN General Assembly, marking the organization’s 80th anniversary, underscored a growing legitimacy crisis in global development. Deep cuts to official development assistance by wealthy countries, particularly the United States, have triggered a broader reckoning over the credibility of the aid system itself. What was once portrayed as partnership is […]
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Africa is taking on increasing geostrategic importance in the evolving global order. The dispersion of power away from a hegemonic, Western core, heightened geopolitical tensions, and growing contestation over values have brought to the fore questions about the constitution of this order and the role of various actors in shaping it. Traditionally, discourse about Africa’s […]
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The current state of “no war no peace” in northern Ethiopia seems to be preserved only by the rainy season’s predictable afternoon showers and relatively chill air. Tigrayans are making anxious preparations—“stocking up on emergency supplies and withdrawing their savings from the bank”—before the rainy season winds down.The Pretoria Agreement, signed in November 2022, silenced […]
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The New Agenda for Peace provides an opening for continental actors to advance priorities at the global level. However, this requires the AU to deliver on revamping its own multilateral system as a springboard to reforming global multilateralism.
