The African Land Forces Summit reveals an underappreciated truth: institutions alone cannot hold the continent's security architecture together.
How a technologically escalating conflict is reshaping the security architecture of an entire region.
Houthi missile strikes on Israel are reviving the strategic logic behind a little-noticed diplomatic gambit - and the Horn of Africa may pay the price.
By Fidel Amakye Owusu On Saturday, March 14, 2026, Rwanda announced it may pull its troops from Cabo Delgado, the northern Mozambican province where an Islamist...
By Gregory Simpkins Global conflicts and policy shifts inevitably affect Africa and its Diaspora. In the current expanding conflict in the Middle East, economist Kasirim Nwuke,...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Great-power competition has returned to Africa. But this is no simple reprise of the Cold War – it is more chaotic, more...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The collapse of the G5 Sahel should serve as a wake-up call: African states cannot defeat violent extremism through fragmented, go-it-alone strategies....
By Godfred Zina When Washington intervened in Venezuela, the response from African capitals was swift and notably unified. Yet this wasn’t about taking sides in Latin...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Southern Africa stands apart. While military coups have swept across West and Central Africa with alarming regularity, the Southern African Development Community...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu A stark challenge has emerged to the diplomatic consensus taking shape in Washington last week: while world powers negotiate with governments over...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Last Friday, I arrived in Lomé for the second edition of the Lomé Peace and Security Forum – an event that has...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In 1963, as African nations emerged from colonial rule, Ghana’s visionary leader Kwame Nkrumah made a bold call: the continent needed a...
By Gregory Simpkins The wave of coups in Africa’s western region, including the Sahel, offered hope that Pan-Africanism had taken hold and that neocolonial powers, notably...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Mr. President, your willingness to engage in the Nile River dispute is a rare opportunity – one that could redefine U.S. leadership...
By Godfred Zina The political upheavals in West Africa’s Sahel region have sparked a dramatic realignment of international alliances. In the wake of successive coups, the...
