March 1, 2018

A Look Ahead to March 2018

A Three Horse Race in Sierra Leone On 7th March 2018, Sierra Leone will go to the polls to vote for the country’s next president. The […]
January 17, 2018

Gulf Politics Intensifies Regional Tensions

As different countries seek to exert influence in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, political divisions of the Middle Eastern Gulf are being played […]
December 16, 2015

Dispatches From Africa

Tahrir Square and the Erosion of Egypt’s Democracy Emma Hooper writes from Cairo: A small but ever-present brigade of armoured cars remains parked on Tahrir square, providing […]
November 27, 2014

Egypt: A Rising Islamist Tide?

On 12th November 2014, Egypt’s former head of naval intelligence stated that a terrorist attack on that day represented a “quantum leap for terrorism”. The incident General Yorsi […]