Africa

Thirty years after the genocide, evidence shows Western powers had warnings, names, and means to intervene—but chose not to.

Rolling blackouts have reached 300 days annually, forcing businesses to close and workers to flee. The state utility's debt now exceeds its revenue by a factor of three.

Twenty-three years after its creation, the Pan-African Parliament cannot pass laws, cannot hold executives accountable, and cannot compel a single member state to act.

Petros Haile served twelve years in a military with no discharge date. His story reveals how Eritrea's conscription system fuels regional instability.

In Ouagadougou's outlying villages, the junta promised security through Russian partnership. What they delivered was a different kind of fear.

An insurgency that began with machete attacks has displaced over a million people and paralyzed one of Africa's largest energy investments. Now, as Rwanda's forces withdraw, the violence is spreading.

In Borena zone, six consecutive failed rainy seasons have killed 1.5 million livestock and displaced 800,000 pastoralists. Foreign investors still hold the fertile land.

Thousands of Ethiopian migrants pass through Djibouti each month, seeking passage to the Gulf. Many disappear into a detention system the world has chosen not to see.

From Lagos to Nairobi, the continent's celebrated tech ecosystem faces its harshest reckoning as global investors retreat and local champions scramble to adapt.

As the AU faces its worst funding crisis and member states increasingly bypass Addis Ababa, the dream of Pan-African integration is fracturing along old fault lines.

Paul Kagame has built the most admired governance model in Africa. He has also, according to the UN and multiple investigative bodies, funded and directed the deadliest conflict on the continent. Both things are true — and the world has chosen, until now, to look away.