Isis and the global rise of non-state actors
The recent onslaught by Isis isn't a rogue success for terrorist groups; non-state actors are on the rise worldwide. We…
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The Sudanese dictatorship: twenty-five years of impunity
Once, the plight of Darfur’s two million refugees would have made front page news. Today they seldom make even a…
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In Kenya, al-Shabab is using terror as a way of destroying the economy
The group’s long-term strategy is to destroy Kenya’s reputation as a safe tourist destination, damaging its economy and weakening its…
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Should the apartheid regime’s “Prime Evil” be released?
Ten years ago psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela wrote a book about the encounters she had with Eugene de Kock, head of…
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Live-tweeting an Islamist insurgency
With the eyes of the world on the Nigerian government, its main concern is to silence critical voices.
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Fighting Cape Town’s notorious gangs
Martin Plaut meets the man taking on the gangs that are said to be responsible for 80 per cent of…
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“This is one of the worst places in the world to be a woman”
Three years on from the signing of the peace agreement in South Sudan, the heady optimism has disappeared.
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Why is there such a culture of misinformation surrounding the case of Nigeria’s kidnapped girls?
The tragedy of the two hundred girls kidnapped in Nigeria won’t be as high-profile a story as individual western kidnap…
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