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Intelligence body claims challenge Ramaphosa clean-up

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SOUTH AFRICA

The statements provided detail to supplement the findings of a 2018 review of the SSA, ordered by President Cyril Ramaphosa. The latest allegations imply a significant undermining…

North-west Nigerian insecurity faces new escalation

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NIGERIA

The claim that one of Boko Haram’s factions sponsored the Kankara attack reinforces fears that jihadist outreach to bandit groups is succeeding and that violence will grow in…

Nigeria’s Islamic movement ban raises violence risks

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NIGERIA

Both have been held in detention by the authorities since 2015, in defiance of a court order for their release. The ruling followed a little over a week after President Muhammadu…

Attacks in Mozambique's central provinces will persist

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MOZAMBIQUE

While domestic and international attention is focused on insecurity in northern Cabo Delgado province, attacks by the Junta, which claims RENAMO’s leadership was illegitimately…

Setbacks are likely in Sudan’s fraught transition

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SUDAN

Pressures facing Sudan's transition.

Rising crime will test Uganda’s security sector

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UGANDA

The identities and motives of the attackers remain contested, and police investigations are ongoing. However, two opposition legislators have been charged in connection with the…

African authoritarianism likely to rise in 2018

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AFRICA

Rising African authorianism

Insecurity will overshadow Burkina Faso’s election

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BURKINA FASO

Opposition parties for the first time have pledged to back the leading opposition candidate should there be a second round. Meanwhile, the persistent jihadist insurgency risks…

Rising Guinean instability will prompt uprising fears

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GUINEA

The FNDC, comprising the main opposition parties and civil society groups, claims that Conde favours a new constiitution to get around the two-term limit that would oblige him to…

Museveni may struggle to contain rising popular anger

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UGANDA

The demonstrations reflect rising anti-government sentiment, given impetus by a contested by-election that descended into violence and led to the arrest, prosecution and alleged…