In recent months, Boko Haram has attacked rural military bases and convoys in the northeastern part of Nigeria and in surrounding countries, acquiring weapons in the process. Since spring 2015, when regional militaries chased most of its members back underground, the sect had been focused on survival and terrorism. While the group is far from their high point of 2014-2015, when they controlled a territory estimated at 20,000 square miles, these raids show a new strategic acumen.
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The Gambia’s fragile transition since national elections in January this year provide considerable room for studying and responding to the root causes of conflict by pursuing both peace and development in a holistic manner.
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The ongoing electoral challenges come as a majority of Kenyan voters maintain a distinct belief in the vote as the ultimate mechanism of constituting government.
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Merkel’s statement was made in the context of many African countries experiencing economic growth while, at the same time, battling militant and terrorist groups.
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No matter who wins, it is likely that the candidates will challenge the results of what analysts are already calling the most expensive election in Africa.
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Available data collected from international and local media since November 2015 points to more than 1,200 people reported killed during the protests.
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ECOWAS has issue a stern warning to the country’s paralyzed polity, voicing its grave concern regarding what it sees as “a deteriorating socio-political situation in the country.”
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Evaluations of DDR programming identify reintegration as the most challenging aspect of the process; disarmament and demobilization are seen as easier—both to implement and to monitor—precisely because they are technical tasks, carried out over a relatively short and well-defined timeline.
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A 1986 oil price shock necessitated austerity measures including severe cuts to core subsidies for health, education, and housing, which hit the lower and middle classes hard and contributed to a popular and bloody uprising in October 1988.
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The reasons for recent developments are many and rightly concern not only local actors but the former colonial power in the region, France.
