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African Arguments
Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It will offer debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books. Gibreil Ibrahim’s tweet The coup in Sudan on 25 October shut down the internet and therefore most social media.
After the Kumba massacre: Schools in Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis
Until recently, activists in the diaspora and separatists had insisted that schools remain closed and used violence to ensure it. At a primary school in Cameroon. Credit: GPE/Stephan Bachenheimer. On 24 October, armed men attacked a school in Kumba in the Southwest region of Cameroon. They killed seven students and injured others several more. In the aftermath of the assault, the Cameroonian government was quick to blame separatist fighters who have been locked in war for independence since 2017.
Politicizing Somalia’s Human Rights Debate
Politicizing Somalia’s Human Rights Debate Former Somali prime minister, Omar Arteh Qalib, had a habit of saying “Somalis will sort out their differences under a tree,” in reference to the traditional shir (meeting) to which disputes are referred for adjudication by elders of two clans. When he made the now-famous “under the tree” speech Somalia had not fully slipped into anarchy.
Breaking the Deadlock over Parliamentary Elections in Somaliland
(MENAFN - SomTribune) Reforming the electoral system and public services could be a key to breaking the deadlock over parliamentary elections in Somaliland, argues Liban Ahmad Two years ago President Muse Bihi Abdi of Somaliland won the presidential election. One year ago the Chairman of Waddani, an opposition party, Abdirahman Abdullahi Mohammed, toured Europe to galvanise his supporters to campaign for an electoral reform agenda.
Eritrea and Ethiopia: A year of peace, a year of dashed hopes
Since the historic accord last year, the border has closed again and little has changed. Patience among Eritreans is wearing thin. Eritrea and Ethiopia. Credit: Fitsum Arega. A year ago today, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed arrived in the Eritrea capital of Asmara. Eritreans lined the streets, ecstatic to greet the leader of the country with whom they had been locked in conflict for two decades. It was a truly landmark visit, ending years of hostility.
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Today feels decisive as the Sudanese people call for President al-Bashir to go. Some soldiers are protecting us, but much remains uncertain. After 30 years in office, President Omar al-Bashir’s vicious days in charge of Sudan are numbered. It feels like today – the third consecutive one in which thousands of us have camped outside Sudan’s military headquarters demanding the dictator steps down – will be decisive.
The politics of ports in the Horn: War, peace and Red Sea rivalries
This is the second part of The Thin Red Line, an African Arguments series focusing on dynamics around the Red Sea. For over 25 years, maritime strategy and port development in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden appeared relatively static. Eritrea looked inwards, neglecting its coast. Djibouti flourished, lucratively embracing Ethiopia’s trade, overseas investors and foreign military bases.
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The words typically used to describe Lai Mohammed in private are the ones you might expect. After all, to survive a couple decades in the crucible of Nigerian politics, one has to be fearless. To be an effective spokesperson for a ruling party, one needs a degree of wiliness – perhaps even slipperiness. And to ascend to the influential position of Minister of Information and Culture, one has to be a fierce and canny operator.
The region in Niger quietly piloting a Boko Haram amnesty - African Arguments
In mid-December 2016, in rural Diffa region on Niger’s southern border with Nigeria, fourteen men gave themselves up to authorities. The group said that they were former fighters of Boko Haram and that they had abandoned their weapons in the bush. News of this impromptu surrender from the Islamist militant group responsible for tens of thousands of deaths and millions of displacements came as a surprise to most in the area. But not to regional authorities.
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