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African countries and their leaders must apply UN findings in comparable situations of violence, whether in Sudan, the DRC or elsewhere.
Political actors remain suspicious of the census process and divided over which electoral system to use.
M23’s advance exposes the limits of current peace efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Amid severe UN budget cuts and US disengagement, the resolution’s survival depends on creative diplomacy and stronger African ownership.
Addressing the terrorist threat should not justify dismantling the governance architecture the AU has painstakingly built over two decades.
Governments in the Lake Chad Basin region must target and dismantle terrorist groups’ information-gathering and processing systems.
Two decades after Liberia’s civil wars ended, new laws are a chance to learn from past mistakes that impeded transitional justice.
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