What happened in Juba?
After two days of confused accounts of violence in the South Sudanese capital, some details of the causes and consequences of the devastating firefights have begun to emerge.
Direct from Juba
In a special podcast, Richard Stupart talks to SPLM member of parliament in Juba, Dr Lual Deng, about the violence in the capital this week.
Africa Offshore: Maritime Security Update
ADR discusses African maritime strategy with Rear Admiral Ben Bekkering.
Why the Congolese Government should be flexible
M23’s defeat following concerted FARDC and FIB attacks was a breath of fresh strategic air. The willingness by M23, or at least its political wing, to negotiate terms of disarmament and demobilisation is an equally promising start. However, Kabila’s team at Kampala is refusing to concede a semantic problem of what to call the settlement agreement. This stubbornness can cost them dearly if they are not flexible on what to call M23’s return from the bush.
(Failed) State of the Nation: A CAR Update
Since the overthrow of the government by the Seleka rebel movement in March, the Central African Republic has once more fallen off the media radar. African Defence Review finds out at what has become of the security situation since.
The Last Days of M23
Excerpts from the battles that defeated M23.