Increasing levels of extreme poverty in Africa were turbocharged by COVID-19, fuelling the fire of relative deprivation.

The conflict has catalysed the region’s illicit markets as people turn to smuggling networks for essential goods.

As violence and instability rise, African countries must reaffirm their commitment to protecting children and support DDR ...

Stakeholders are exploring innovative ways to safeguard the region’s precious plants from the threat of extinction.

Once the world’s third-largest producer of gold, Zimbabwe holds substantial endowments of close to 40 different minerals. While the country has no known commercial deposits of oil, the country has one ...

Les interviews de 63 jeunes ex-engagés dans des groupes « djihadistes » remettent en question certaines idées reçues sur l'extrémisme violent au Mali. Cette note d’analyse est la première publication ...

To be a police officer in Afghanistan takes a particular kind of courage. Mina (not her real name) was tasked with conducting body searches at a checkpoint on the road leading to Kabul airport when I ...

Amelia Broodryk joined the ISS in 2007 and is currently director of communication and a member of the ISS' Executive Committee. Before joining the Communication department, she was a senior researcher ...

San (Bushmen) hunter-gatherers are the earliest inhabitants of the area that is now Zimbabwe. The San were later displaced and absorbed by the farming and cattle-herding Bantu-speaking groups, ...

The United Kingdom’s (UK) October agreement to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius appeared to address longstanding international legal issues surrounding decolonisation and ...

This issue asks whether Chad’s election is a bellwether for the PSC and investigates the shaky security situation in the DRC.

Relations between sub-Saharan Africa’s two giants, South Africa and Nigeria, seem to be permanently frozen on the threshold of greatness. Why can’t they be the Germany-France of Africa, some ask, ...