For the past three years, Africa has been under an unprecedented wave of coups. The region has witnessed its 7^th coup in Gabon on 30 August 2023. Coups at such a rapid pace in the African region have done great harm to the persistent efforts by the civilian governments in the region to dispel the reputation of Africa as a “coup belt.” Incessant corruption and insecurity in the region are some of the major reasons behind frequent military interventions in the region. Moreover, the failure of civilian institutions also provides the military with an opportunity…

Today, the vast majority of nations in the historical West are intensely focused on their own problems or wars that are unfolding “on the outskirts” of the Old World: in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Nevertheless, as some analysts correctly point out, Africa experienced the largest and deadliest upheavals in recent years, not Europe. For instance, northern Ethiopia was subject to the greatest number of victims of armed conflict in 2022, despite the fact that these events only received, at best, marginal attention from much of the world’s population…

There is always a conflict between high principle and pragmatism. Embracing both is probably a wise strategy. But whether you can actually have anything both ways, or whether the outcome would mean anything if you did, remains to be seen. As Geoff Young, political pundit who has run for political office in the US State of Kentucky...

Global media outlets have been busy reporting about an incident involving British servicemen who, in a provocative move, intentionally entered Russian territorial waters and failed to comply with a request from the Russian military until members of the latter were forced to fire warning shots. On June 23, 2021, HMS Defender, a British warship, sailed near Cape...