Strategic Thinking on East Africa

From The Daily Nation A woman prepares food in a shelter for internally displaced people in the UNMISS camp in Juba on June 20, 2014. Conditions in war-torn South Sudan have worsened, with thousands fleeing fighting since a ceasefire deal three weeks ago, the United Nations has warned. AFP PHOTO | CHARLES LOMODONG In […]

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From The International Crisis Group By Rashid Abdi Many paths have been tried to counter the appeal of violent religious extremism in East Africa. In the Muslim community, traditional Sufism is being increasingly viewed as an important new way. But it should be followed with caution, since official embrace of just one religious custom can never […]

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By Marthe van der Wolf, VOA Over the past five years, Kenya, Uganda, Djibouti and the self-declared republic of Somaliland have all been attacked by Somalia-based Al-Shabab militants. Ethiopia, which invaded Somalia in 2006 to fight Al-Shabab, has since evaded a large-scale attack. According to Tewolde Mulugeta of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the country’s secret to […]

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  Posted on September 16, 2015 by AfricanArgumentsEditor European countries are wrangling over how many (or few) refugees they take in. But how do refugee numbers compare across the world and in Africa? To try to get my head around the impact of the numbers of refugees currently arriving in Europe, I looked at global […]

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Addis Ababa, 16 September, 2015(WIC)-Kenyan security forces have launched an operation to oust al-Shabab militants from the Boni Forest, along the Kenya-Somalia border. Officials say the group has established camps in the forest to attack targets in Kenya. Kenyan officials say about 300 al-Shabab fighters are hiding in the Boni Forest. The government blames those […]

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From Deutsche Welle Kenya’s official human rights watchdog has accused the government of “grave violations of law and human rights” in its war on terrorism. The commission cited the use of extra-judicial killings and waterboarding. A report published by the state-funded Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) accused the government of using similar tactics […]

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From the Sudan Tribune The visit comes amid strained relations between Khartoum and Kampala as the two countries trade accusation of support to rebel groups. Sudan accuses Uganda of harbouring rebel groups member of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) while Uganda claims that the rebels of the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) are in western Sudan. […]

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NAIROBI, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) — Kenyan police on Tuesday arrested three people with improvised explosive device which they had tried to sneak into an upmarket shopping mall in the capital, Nairobi. Nairobi’s Kasarani divisional police commander Robin Mboloi said the private security guards discovered the devices while screening one of the visitors to the Garden […]

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From Kenya’s Daily Nation   WASHINGTON, The US mission to war-torn Somalia began work Tuesday without an ambassador or an embassy and based in a neighbouring country, the State Department said. American diplomats will not be based in Mogadishu, scene of the infamous “Black Hawk Down” battle in 1993 that left 18 US servicemen and […]

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Workers on a Kenya Pipeline Company extension project. Uganda is playing tough on the crude oil pipeline, with fresh demands that Kenya must first meet its pre-conditions before construction begins. PHOTO/FILE In Summary As the announcement was made in Uganda last month, Uganda’s Energy minister Irene Muloni noted that Kenya contested some of the conditions set […]

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