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 Fidel Amakye Owusu In an undergraduate political science seminar years ago, we studied a hierarchy that divided nations into categories: superpowers, great powers, strong states,...
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 Gregory Simpkins US President Donald Trump often makes grandiose threats and statements without carrying them out. Several weeks ago, he warned of a military response...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The Alliance of Sahel States has finally operationalized its founding ambition, but the implications extend far beyond military posturing. What began as...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu If a wall is to be built between West Africa’s coastal states and the encroaching extremism of the Sahel, it cannot be...
By Godfred Zina The slow-motion unravelling of West Africa’s established security order has entered a critical new phase. The decision by the junta-led Alliance of Sahel...
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 Fidel Amakye Owusu Last year, Chad issued a stark warning: it might withdraw from the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), the regional coalition established to...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The Rovuma River serves as a natural geographical boundary between Mozambique and Tanzania, defining part of the border along the Indian Ocean...
United States Special Operations troops are forming elite counter-terrorism units in four countries in North and West Africa that American officials say are pivotal in the...
