Nigeria is currently faced with serious domestic challenges. While the state is not officially at war, it is standing on the precipice, especially with the eruption of violence occasioned by the emergence of the Boko Haram sect and the tenuous peace in the Niger Delta. With the 2015 general elections on the horizon, fears of further violence and disintegration are ...

For Africa, the year 2016 saw a continuation of trends rooted in the past and perpetuated by leaders and movements that were also not new. No groundbreaking developments occurred. No Arab Spring rattled the comfort zone of the continent's despots. The predations of terror groups, both indigenous and foreign in origin, waxed and waned in response to counter-insurgen...

For Africa, the year 2016 saw a continuation of trends rooted in the past and perpetuated by leaders and movements that were also not new. No groundbreaking developments occurred. No Arab Spring rattled the comfort zone of the continent's despots. The predations of terror groups, both indigenous and foreign in origin, waxed and waned in response to counter-insurgen...