List of Africa articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 South Sudan’s Attacks on U.N. Could Imperil Future Peacekeeping
Since violence flared this summer, South Sudanese government forces have mounted increasingly brutal attacks against U.N. workers.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Has the President of Malawi Still Not Gone Home from the U.N. General Assembly?
The Malawian government is now threatening to arrest anyone who spreads rumors that President Peter Mutharika is gravely ill.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 After American Killed in Ethiopia Unrest, Ambassador Says Protests Should Never Have Happened
Ethiopia has been experiencing social unrest for nearly a year. And after a weekend stampede, the protests have grown in size.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Jihadi Too Violent for ISIS
Abubakar Shekau’s bloodthirst helped make him the leader of Boko Haram — until the Islamic State decided to drop him for a friendlier face.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Boris Johnson Called Africa a Country, But Are We Really Surprised?
Africa is a continent made up of 54 countries.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China Eyes Ending Western Grip on Top U.N. Jobs With Greater Control Over Blue Helmets
As China steps up its commitment to U.N. peacekeeping, Beijing is said to be eyeing a leadership role — with potentially troubling human rights implications.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Atlantic Council Did Not Give a Global Citizen Award to Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba
And the allegation that we received funding to nominate him for the award is preposterous.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Top Congolese Official Blasts Washington for Pulling Embassy Staff’s Family Members
A top aide to President Joseph Kabila told FP there is no tension in Congo and that Americans should feel safe there.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 South Sudan VP Blames Former Rebel Leader for Unrest
Riek Machar's replacement in the transitional government claims the former rebel leader never accepted his subordinate role, and tried to play "parallel president."
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SOMALIA-UAE-UNREST-AID The U.N. Is Sending Thousands of Refugees Back Into a War Zone
Kenya’s plan to close the world’s largest refugee camp involves illegal forced repatriations of Somalis. Why is the U.N. helping to carry it out?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Congo Won’t Organize Elections, But Wants to Sell This New Plan Instead
Congolese officials won't announce election dates, but want to sell the international community on a transitional government instead.
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JEAN-MARC MOJON Mohamed Garfanji, Somalia's top pirate boss, stands on sandy dunes just outside the central Somali coastal town of Hobyo as he watches the outline of a hijacked ship anchored off the coast on August 20, 2010. Garfanji, was behind some of the most spectacular catches in modern piracy -- including the 2008 capture of a Ukrainian ship packed with tanks and weapons -- and at barely 30, Garfanji now runs a small army. But his remains a Robin Hood narrative of Somali piracy as a struggle by dispossessed fishermen against vessels from Europe and Asia violating Somalia's exclusive economic zone and poaching its abundant tuna under naval protection. Fighting a losing battle against the sand that has already completely covered the old Italian port, Hobyo's scattering of rundown houses and shacks looks anything but the nerve centre of an activity threatening global shipping. AFP PHOTO / ROBERTO SCHMIDT (Photo credit should read ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images) Why Is It So Hard to Stop West Africa’s Vicious Pirates?
After vanquishing Somali pirates, the world is looking for a playbook that will work in the Gulf of Guinea.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ethiopian Olympian: Prime Minister’s Claims I Was Coerced into Protest Are ‘False and Insulting’
Feyisa Lilesa explains why ongoing ethnic violence in Ethiopia stirred him to make his own high-profile protest.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Gabon Is Recounting Its Votes, But the Ballots Were Already Burned
The Gabonese ambassador to the U.S. said the ballots have been burned but that a recount will take place -- just without observers.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ethiopian PM Blames Olympic Protest on U.S.-Based Dissenters
In interviews with FP, top Ethiopian officials said that Feyisa Lilesa should not fear for his safety, but that an independent human rights rapporteur will not be allowed into the country.
