SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Ghana’s New President
The return of John Mahama is seen as a positive light in African politics.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 01/2025
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 04/2024
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Sierra Leone: “Another Rwanda”?
Pres. Bio is increasingly turning his attempts to retain power into an ethnic civil war.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The New Scramble in Africa
Now the fruits of Africa’s new era of coups are apparent, not just with the coup in Niger, but also with the other recent coups and “non-constitutional” changes of government.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 06/2023
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions - 02/2023
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Global Restructuring: Who’s Listening to the Big Powers?
Mali’s rejection of outside influences spelled a major reverse in Africa for France, the West, and ECOWAS, but it brought no joy for Beijing, or for regional or global governance.
HISTORY
Consequences: Today It Is Us; Tomorrow It Is You
The Horn of Africa is sliding toward a major war which seems likely to rapidly expand to embrace the major powers. The situation has strong parallels to the 1935 Italian invasion of Ethiopia, which began World War II and destroyed the League of Nations.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 06/2021
Australia