China Can’t Have It Both Ways in Europe
Beijing is blowing up its relationships by backing Russia.
Too much news is routed through London and New York. The capitals of the global south need to step up.
The attack in the Central African Republic may tie back to rebels—or Russian mercenaries.
Moscow’s scramble for valuable resources has come at the cost of regional security.
From Benin to Mozambique, President Paul Kagame is flexing his small country’s military muscle—and transforming the continent’s security landscape.
Wagner Group mercenaries have transformed the conflict, but the country is still far from a workable peace deal.
The Kremlin has been recruiting thousands of hardened Syrian fighters to join its war in Ukraine.
Putin’s pursuit of influence, arms sales, and mercenary meddling in the Central African Republic has left Moscow mired in a quagmire.
And that makes it all the more challenging to get to grips with.
Armed checkpoints along key trade routes—not natural resources—are the key to financing rebel groups and insurgencies around the world.
The international community can help rebuild the army and institutions, but its presence cannot be permanent.
The country’s postelection violence threatens a humanitarian catastrophe—and a continued standoff between Russia and France for influence in Central Africa.
Proxy wars pitting France and Chad against Russia and Rwanda threaten to destabilize the entire region while subjecting Central Africans to more violence and instability.
Children are at the center of the Central African Republic’s efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic—and to break the country’s cycles of violence.
Park staff struggle to protect the animals—and themselves—against poachers and militias.
One of the world’s most experienced autocrats has clinched another seven-year term by bending the rules of the game in his direction in ways both old and new.
U.N. member states must renew their commitment to the vital peacekeeping operations that end wars, protect civilians, and save lives.
But it can help solve local conflicts. Here’s how.
Five years after its viral video broke the internet, Invisible Children is on the front line of a covert war against the Lord’s Resistance Army.
France just ended its mission in the CAR, leaving the country with scandal-plagued U.N. peacekeepers.
The infamous LRA warlord and his sons still have not been caught.