Africa Trends

The recent terror attack in Nairobi has brought focus on Kenya's involvement in Somalia and indicates that despite the African Union forces' successes last year the Somalia based terrorist group, Al Shabaab, may have regrouped and emerged stronger.

• Ruchita Beri
• September 2013
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Uhuru Kenyatta's election as the president of Kenya is important both with respect to the Kenyan internal politics and the larger implications for the legal regime of the International Criminal Court. It remains to be seen that who will bring justice to the families of the dead and displaced after the 2007-08 post election violence.

• Saurabh Mishra
• September 2013
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India’s relations with Nigeria are on the upswing.

• Ruchita Beri
• June 2013
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Post-Gaddafi Libya is in a phase of difficult transition. Lack of well-established political framework, threat of uncontrolled armed militias and conflicting regional and tribal identities and interests are making it extremely difficult for Libya to move ahead.

• Agarwal, Rajeev
• June 2013
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Making a breakthrough in the complicated arena of news media broadcasting requires more than a generous dosage of money and technology, especially if it involves diminishing the influence of traditional players in the media-scape of the continent.

• Sneha Bhura
• April 2013
• Africa Trends

The Central African Republic's political crisis is driven by international politics and resource competition.

• Ahana Banerjee
• April 2013
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The crisis in eastern DRC cannot be resolved by merely accusing countries like Rwanda and Uganda of interference; Kinshasa has to review its response to the crisis.

• Keerthi Sampath Kumar
• April 2013
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There is a collective international effort to bring about stability, but its history with its neighbours and divisions within may haunt Somalia's future.

• Saurabh Mishra
• December 2012
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The Act does not seem to factor in the possibility of brutal crackdowns leading to an atmosphere of further militarisation and hostility.

• Sneha Bhura
• December 2012
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The end of decades of autocratic rule in Egypt is marked by the beginning of a march towards a democratic political system and the rise to power of the Muslim Brotherhood.

• Prasanta Kumar Pradhan
• August 2012
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