The needs of Sudanese refugees displaced by the Sudan civil war are rising while support for them is shrinking dramatically. Since assuming office in 2025, the Trump administration began significantly cutting funding for the United States Agency for International Development … Continue reading
Category: Africa
Les mutilations génitales des femmes en Afrique: le paradoxe d’une pratique interdite mais pourtant persistante
Les mutilations génitales féminines (MGF) désignent des pratiques consistant à modifier ou retirer les organes génitaux externes des filles ou des femmes pour des raisons non médicales. Présentes dans plusieurs régions du monde, elles sont souvent liées à des normes … Continue reading
Deceptive Recruitment Draws African Nationals Into Russia’s War Effort
A growing number of African citizens have claimed they were deceived into assisting Russia’s military operations since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine. On January 31st, 2026, Ukrainian authorities reported that Clinton Nyapara Mogesa, a 29-year-old Kenyan citizen, … Continue reading
The Role of the Internet Shutdown in the 2026 Ugandan Elections
Since its independence in 1986, Uganda has been ruled by President Yoweri Museveni, who is now 81 years old and has secured reelection with 72% of the vote, while his greatest opponent, Bobi Wine, only amassed 25%. While this figure … Continue reading
The Case of Sudan: What UAE’s Actions Mean for Contemporary Interventionism
On March 5, 2025, the Sudanese government accused the United Arab Emirates (UAE) before the International Court of Justice (IJC) of complicity in genocide in its relations to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group that has allegedly committed … Continue reading
First Year Voices, World AIDS Day: HIV Prevention at the Nexus of Gendered Fishing Economies in the Lake Victoria Region
For fishing communities situated along Sub-Saharan Africa’s Lake Victoria, HIV is an ever-present challenge. The lake, a cornerstone of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda’s fishing economies, is also the site of a persistent HIV crisis. Currently, the rate of HIV in … Continue reading
First Year Voices, World AIDS Day: USAID Post-Mortem, What’s Next for HIV Prevention in Nigeria?
Within one week of US President Donald Trump’s January 2025 announcement of Executive Order 14169 to suspend all USAID funding, 36% of organizations that received funding from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Initiative (PEPFAR) reported having already had … Continue reading
First Year Voices, World AIDS Day: When AIDS Affects the ‘Nobody’
It is no surprise that funding cuts, most notably the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, have weakened countries’ health sectors, making prevention, treatment, and care of Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and in its most advanced form, AIDS, exigent. … Continue reading
What the Videos of the El-Fasher City Massacre Tell Us About the War in Sudan
Recently, videos circulated online depicting the massacres in Sudan by the RSF, which a Yale institute analysis of drone footage has corroborated. One video depicts RSF soldiers taunting captured men and boys before summarily executing them, a manner reminiscent of … Continue reading
Is Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré the New Face of Pan-Africanism?
Since Captain Ibrahim Traoré’s ascension to power in Burkina Faso in 2022, he has garnered a controversial reputation as a symbol of anti-imperialism for some and a continuation of military authoritarianism for others. Through rhetoric and policy, he represents a … Continue reading