Waging Nonviolence: The Arab Spring you haven’t heard about — in Mauritania

Waging Nonviolence: The Arab Spring you haven’t heard about — in Mauritania
You may not have heard of it, but the West African country of Mauritania has what is probably one of the most vibrant and active protest movements in the world today. Protests drawing tens of thousands of people (out of a total population of just three million) take place almost weekly in the capital Nouakchott, with many smaller protests happening ...

War is Boring: Africa Roundup (Congo, Mali, Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau)

War is Boring: Africa Roundup (Congo, Mali, Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau)
The latest installment of my regular Africa conflict roundup for warisboring.com Congo A large-scale mutiny-come-rebellion rocks the eastern part of the Democratic Replublic of Congo since Easter. Never the most peaceful of places, the situation in the Kivu provinces bordering Rwanda escalated, when army general Bosco “The Terminator” Ntaganda decided to defect from his position. Ntaganda ...

Sahel food crisis: a roundup

Sahel food crisis: a roundup
This will be the first of a series of posts, looking at the current state of the food crisis in the Sahel. In this post, I will provide a short history of the current crisis and a general overview of the situation in the region. In future posts, I will analyze the state of various ...