Nowinafrica Editorial board

A Country Running on Empty In Malawi’s capital Lilongwe, the queues at fuel stations have become a daily spectacle of frustration. Cars line up before dawn. Engines are left running because drivers fear losing their place. And by the time the pumps run dry — as they often do by mid-morning — hundreds of vehicles

The Streets of Dakar Erupted When the news broke that President Bassirou Diomaye Faye had dismissed Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, the streets of Dakar filled with a mixture of jubilation and uncertainty. It was the kind of political earthquake West Africa had not seen in years — a president removing his own prime minister after

Introduction In the early hours of a May morning, gunmen struck a school in Nigeria’s Oyo State, abducting a group of students and teachers in an incident that sent shockwaves across a region that had grown accustomed to such violence being confined to the country’s northeast. The attack targeted a community that sits squarely within

Introduction Liberia, a nation still visibly marked by its twin civil wars that lasted from 1989 to 2003 and claimed an estimated 250,000 lives, is taking a significant step toward reckoning with its violent past. President Joseph Boakai has submitted two landmark bills to the national legislature: one establishing a war crimes court to prosecute

Introduction The skies over Kidal grew darker in more ways than one. In what marks a grim escalation in one of Africa’s longest-running conflicts, forces operating alongside Mali’s military have been accused of deploying cluster munitions against civilian areas in the Kidal region — the first documented use of the banned weapons since the insurgency

The Kidal Region Becomes a Test Case for Accountability For years, the Kidal region in northern Mali has been a symbol of everything that has gone wrong since jihadist groups and separatist Tuareg rebels began their insurgency against the Malian state in 2012. Remote, arid, and long neglected by Bamako’s governments, the region has cycled

The physical destruction wrought by years of conflict in Mali has been extensively documented, burnt villages, displaced populations, and a landscape dotted with the remnants of military hardware. But the psychological wounds that the war has inflicted on ordinary Malians, particularly the children who have grown up knowing nothing but insecurity and violence, have received

The United States government has imposed sanctions on a senior Tanzanian police official, accusing him of involvement in the torture and arbitrary detention of human rights activists and opposition politicians in a move that signals growing international scrutiny of Tanzania human rights record. The designation, announced by the United States Treasury Department Office of Foreign