All Africa Monitor

Across East Africa, leaders are pushing laws and crackdowns on free media, NGO funding, and human rights and civil society efforts. This isn't coincidence.  

East African artists lift their voices with hope of healing. As newly independent state faces seventh week of strife, can music help 'restore happiness'?

New report details ongoing and unremarked conflict in Blue Nile, South Kordofan, and Darfur.

Unabated poaching of rhinos and the trafficking of their horns is driving a new discussion about legalizing rhino horn trade, as a means of preservation. 

The burning of Riek Machar's hometown of Leer marks at least one violation of the 'cessation of hostilities' agreement. 

France talked 'genocide' to advocate peacekeepers. But the term is abused. A longer term solution: local elections, spreading small cash, support of new president Samba-Panza.

Uganda seeks to be a regional power, is militarist and prone to adventures. It fought the rebels in S. Sudan and its troops could jeopardize a peace deal there.

Are Muslim arrests in the Christian south a knee-jerk reaction to Boko Haram attacks? Or first signs of a pogrom?

Rebels from South Sudan sent three women to Addis Ababa. But the government sent none. Syria talks in Geneva lack any women participants.

How to get past standard CAR clichés.

Agreement signed in Addis Ababa is technically a 'cessation of hostilities.' That means the UN will not monitor the peace, the warring parties and their mediator will. 

The question now is whether the international community will step up.

New special ops units expected to benefit from Pentagon training and equipment.

Anarchy in CAR is not over, whatever the interim president is saying. Might the UN take charge?

Three Oscar bids from the African diaspora is unprecedented: Chiwetel Ejiofor and Lupita Nyong'o for "12 Years a Slave," and Barkhad Abdi, for "Captain Phillips."

Many Nigerians do see anti-gay legislation as a re-affirmation of African and national values.

Imagery from 300 miles up verifies UN reports of the scale of fighting. Shots of Bor, epicenter of recent fighting, show destruction of civilian and market buildings.

This is neither jihad nor crusade. Fighting in the CAR is over political power, with the capitol city Bangui as the prize.

The Sudan People's Liberation Army was always a multi-ethnic liberation movement against Omar Al Bashir's Sudan, not a coherent party. Now it seems a venue for warlords.