Updates

The ICC appeals chamber’s decision to move ahead on an investigation of grave abuses by combatants in Afghanistan, including U.S. forces, marks an unprecedented move that is likely to arouse...

Officials from Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the last Ebola patient has been discharged from a hospital in Beni. The patient’s...

Below is a visualization and description of some of the most significant incidents of political violence in Nigeria from February 22 to 28, 2020. This update also represents violence related to Boko...

Below is a visualization and description of some of the most significant incidents of political violence in Nigeria from February 15 to 21, 2020. This update also represents violence related to Boko...

Below is a visualization and description of some of the most significant incidents of political violence in Nigeria from February 8 to 14, 2020. This update also represents violence related to Boko...

The security situation around Borno’s capital, Maiduguri, appears to be going from bad to worse. On February 9, The Boko Haram faction Islamic State in West African (ISWA) shot or burned alive some...

The virus appears to be less dangerous than SARS, but there are still concerns of a wider outbreak in Asia. Reports of a new strain of coronavirus causing pneumonia-like symptoms in the central...

The International Court of Justice issued an important decision aimed at protecting Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority, but its impact is unclear. The wheels of international justice turn slowly,...

Over the last couple of weeks, Boko Haram has increased attacks on the road from Maiduguri to Kano, the only remaining safe highway of the six major roads that connect Maiduguri with the rest of the...

Below is a visualization and description of some of the most significant incidents of political violence in Nigeria from January 4 to 10, 2020. This update also represents violence related to Boko...

Below is a visualization and description of some of the most significant incidents of political violence in Nigeria from December 28, 2019, to January 3, 2020. This update also represents violence...

Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell Herman J. Cohen is the former assistant secretary of state for African affairs (1989–1993), the former U.S. ambassador to the Gambia and Senegal...

Global refugee flows are currently at the highest levels in history. While many refugees already face perilous journeys, harsh living conditions in camps, and discrimination in host countries, they...

Below is a visualization and description of some of the most significant incidents of political violence in Nigeria from December 21 to 27, 2019. This update also represents violence related to Boko...

The following is a guest post by Chelsea Thorpe, former intern for International Institutions and Global Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations. For at least two decades, the UN Security...

Below is a visualization and description of some of the most significant incidents of political violence in Nigeria from December 7 to 13, 2019. This update also represents violence related to Boko...

Below is a visualization and description of some of the most significant incidents of political violence in Nigeria from November 30 to December 6, 2019. This update also represents violence related...

Bulama Bukarti is a sub-Saharan Africa analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, based in London, and a PhD candidate at SOAS, University of London. On October 30, the Nigerian military...

Protests that began last week in and around Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have continued into this week, claiming several lives. Civilians on the ground, frustrated and frightened...

Blog Post by John Campbell Below is a visualization and description of some of the most significant incidents of political violence in Nigeria from November 23 to 29, 2019. This update also...