Stark Rise in Military Coups Africa is witnessing an alarming rise in military coups, with seven leaders ousted between August 2020 and November 2023, eclipsing the 13 coups of the prior two decades. These coups,…
China prepared on Monday to host representatives of 130 countries for a forum that will be overshadowed by the Israel-Gaza war, as an increasingly assertive Beijing is asked to help de-escalate the violence. Beijing has…
Several British politicians have been linked to an oil deal in Somaliland, embarrassing the Tory party. UK oil company Genel Energy, whose deputy chair is ex-defence minister Michael Fallon, is set to start drilling in…
On Gabonese national TV, soldiers declared the cancellation of recent election results and the dissolution of “all the institutions of the republic.” This development occurred not long after the national election authority’s statement that President…
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations is in the throes of what Secretary-General António Guterres calls an “unprecedented” six-month exit from Mali on orders of the West African nation’s military junta, which has brought in…
Al Jazeera, The Ethiopian army and the Amhara militia were allies in the two-year civil war against the northern Tigray region. The conflict has quickly become Ethiopia’s most serious security crisis since a two-year civil…
Violence has flared across Amhara over a disputed plan to absorb regional security forces into the national army. Last year the authorities also tried to stamp out the Amhara militia, called the Fano. The Fano…
As the United States pursues its peace process for Yemen, Washington still ignores a consistently overlooked threat to stability in the country: the role of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). 9 June 2021, by Jonathan Fenton-Harvey…
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….
Delayed elections and armed conflict threaten dream of statehood for Somaliland. It has reached a fork on the political road, and now seems to be resembling southern Somalia, which for many years was defined by constant…
A timeline of Yemen’s slide into conflict and war. Sometimes it is good to see all important events listed. In the wake of a China-brokered rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia, this Al Jazeera timeline is…
