Political Geography: East Africa / Publication Year: within 10 Years

Author:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Publication Date:: 04-2018
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Abstract:: Violent events linked to militant Islamist groups in Africa rose by 38 percent over the past year. All major groups show an increase in activity.
Topic:: Violent Extremism, Al Qaeda, Militant Islam, Al Shabaab, and Boko Haram
Political Geography:: Africa, North Africa, West Africa, East Africa, and Southern Africa

Author:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Publication Date:: 10-2018
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Abstract:: Expansion of violent events linked to an array of militant Islamist groups in the Sahel highlights the growing scope of security challenges facing this region.
Topic:: Violent Extremism, Al Qaeda, Militant Islam, and Al Shabaab
Political Geography:: Africa, North Africa, West Africa, East Africa, and Sahel

Author:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Publication Date:: 03-2017
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Abstract:: After two years the Burundi crisis continues to worsen. Despite government claims that the situation has normalized, facts on the ground suggest otherwise.
Topic:: Regional Cooperation, United Nations, Refugees, Displacement, and Violence
Political Geography:: Africa, Tanzania, Burundi, and East Africa

Author:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Publication Date:: 03-2017
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Abstract:: A spike in political violence since mid-2016 has caused the worst humanitarian crisis in South Sudan since its decades-long civil war with Sudan.
Topic:: Political Violence, Civil War, Humanitarian Aid, and Displacement
Political Geography:: Africa, Sudan, East Africa, South Sudan, and Central Africa

Author:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Publication Date:: 03-2017
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Abstract:: While much of East Africa suffers from drought, it is conflict, rather than lack of rain, that has been the cause of famine in South Sudan.
Topic:: Humanitarian Aid, Famine, Food Security, and Conflict
Political Geography:: Africa, Sudan, East Africa, South Sudan, and Central Africa

Author:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Publication Date:: 06-2017
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Abstract:: As instability from the political crisis continues to worsen, Burundi refugee flows and displacement show no signs of abating. The number of registered refugees has risen 60 percent in the last year—to 423,056—escalating the political and economic costs for all of Burundi's neighbors.
Topic:: Regional Cooperation, United Nations, Refugees, Political stability, and Displacement
Political Geography:: Africa, Tanzania, Burundi, and East Africa

Author:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Publication Date:: 07-2017
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Abstract:: The humanitarian situation in South Sudan continues to deteriorate as the conflict persists unabated. Four years of widespread violence have left 6 million people—half the population—acutely food insecure.
Topic:: Civil War, Humanitarian Aid, United Nations, Food Security, and Conflict
Political Geography:: Africa, Sudan, East Africa, and South Sudan

Author:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Publication Date:: 08-2017
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Abstract:: Africa’s humanitarian crises have continued to worsen in 2017. Displacement of Africans has reached twenty million, and 44 million are acutely food insecure.
Topic:: Humanitarian Aid, United Nations, Food Security, Refugees, and Displacement
Political Geography:: Africa, East Africa, and Central Africa

Author:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Publication Date:: 09-2017
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Abstract:: African leaders’ adherence to constitutional term limits is a key component of institutionalizing predictable norms of democratic succession. Progress toward establishing this norm has been mixed, however. While a number of African countries have succeeded in upholding term limits over the past two decades, leaders in more than 20 countries effectively do not face restrictions on their time in power.
Topic:: Democracy, Political structure, Political stability, and Institutionalism
Political Geography:: Africa, North Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, and Southern Africa

Author:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Publication Date:: 10-2017
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Abstract:: A quarterly update of a map tracking militant Islamic group activity in Africa as compiled by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies. Al Shabaab has been involved in over half of all violent events related to militant Islamist groups in Africa in the first three quarters of 2017 (987 of 1,827 total).
Topic:: Violent Extremism, ISIS, Militant Islam, and Al Shabaab
Political Geography:: Africa, North Africa, West Africa, and East Africa

Refine your search