Located in northeastern Africa, Sudan is the third-largest country on the continent. The country is coup-prone and experienced severe political instability and conflicts, leading to the secession of South Sudan in 2011.
Eritrea’s Mao-reading president used to seem like a relic. Now Issaias Afwerki is on a roll. Eritrea is emerging as the unlikely powerbroker in the Horn of Africa. More prominent leaders are courting him. In…
China has been a member of the UN security Council since 1971, but initially refused to contribute forces or budget to UN peacekeeping. In the 1990’s China began sending non-combatant personnel to support UN operations….
Foreign Policy The Defense Department’s inspector general report comes just as Trump aims to sell the UAE billions of dollars’ worth of arms. The United Arab Emirates is apparently helping to finance the Russian mercenary…
Interesting blog by Beyond the Horizon about the remnants of the Ottoman empire in Africa. Turkey has had a military base in Somalia since 2017, and continues to extend its hold in Africa in the…
