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Regions Africa East Africa

East Africa

Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of the domestic politics and international relations of the region that includes Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Editor’s Pick

South Sudan’s Dismal Tenth Birthday

The World’s Youngest Country Needs an Overhaul

Comfort Ero and Alan Boswell

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The Tragedy of Madagascar: An Island Nation Confronts the Twenty-first Century

Nicolas van de Walle

The Justice Laboratory: International Law in Africa

Nicolas van de Walle

Ethiopia’s Invisible Ethnic Cleansing

Agnès Callamard , Kenneth Roth

America’s Failure of Imagination in Sudan

Somalia’s Dangerous Authoritarian Turn

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

Empire and Jihad: The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870–1920

Nicolas van de Walle

Peace Is Still Possible in Ethiopia

How to Pull Ethiopia Back From the Brink

Countering Sudan’s Coup

Can Ethiopia Survive?

Nic Cheeseman, Yohannes Woldemariam

South Sudan’s Dismal Tenth Birthday

Comfort Ero, Alan Boswell

East Africa After Liberation: Conflict, Security, and the State Since the 1980s

Nicolas van de Walle

Climate Change Doesn’t Have to Stoke Conflict

Tarek Ghani , Robert Malley

When There Was No Aid: War and Peace in Somaliland

Nicolas van de Walle

Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya

Nicolas van de Walle

Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa

Nicolas van de Walle

Two Books on Islamist Militants in Africa

Nicolas van de Walle

What Happens in Sudan Doesn’t Stay in Sudan

Michael Woldemariam, Alden Young

What Algeria and Sudan Can Learn From Egypt

After Bashir

Zachariah Mampilly

What’s Next for Sudan’s Revolution

Red Sea Rivalries

Can Ethiopia’s Reforms Succeed?

Michael Woldemariam

A Post-American Africa

Reuben E. Brigety II

Water Wars on the Nile

Daniel Benaim, Michael Wahid Hanna

Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror

Nicolas van de Walle

The Alarming Decline of Democracy in East Africa

After the Mogadishu Attacks

Stig Jarle Hansen, Christopher Anzalone

Kenya’s Electoral Impasse

Nic Cheeseman, Gabrielle Lynch, Justin Willis

Sanctions and Sudan

Were the Kenyan Elections Conducted Successfully?

Nic Cheeseman, Gabrielle Lynch, Justin Willis

The Horn of Africa’s Qat-22

Securing Somalia

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Punishing Sudan Is Not a Strategy

Don’t Let Sudan Off the Hook

John Prendergast

A New Tool to Fight Genocide

John Prendergast, Brad Brooks-Rubin

Is Twitter Hurting Ethiopia?

Africa’s Theater of War

Edward Wilson-Lee

Behind the Violence in Ethiopia

Harry Verhoeven

Two Options for South Sudan

Aditi Gorur, Rachel Stohl

Why Coups Fail

Arrest Bashir

Alexa Koenig, Victor Peskin, Eric Stover

Ramadan in Djibouti

Stateless and for Sale in the Gulf

Uganda’s Covert Censorship

Somaliland’s Search for Place

South Sudan’s Troubled Peace

Steven C. Roach

The Curse of Ethiopia’s Success

Why Jordan Is Deporting Darfurian Refugees

Al Shabab’s Lessons for ISIS

Joshua Meservey

The Softer Side of Jihad

Joshua Meservey

Out of Eritrea

Goitom Gebreluel

Terrorist Tug-of-War

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens

Crime and Punishment in Kenya

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens

Sermonizing With Al Shabab

Joshua Meservey

Lords of the Tribes

Saving Somalia (Again)

Vanda Felbab-Brown

China Comes to Djibouti

Africa’s Next Hegemon

Harry Verhoeven

Kenya’s Own Worst Enemy

Terrorist Turf Wars

Joshua Meservey

An Elusive Peace in South Sudan

Jérôme Tubiana

False Security in Kenya

Joshua Meservey

ICC on Trial

Black Market

Al Shabab’s Last Stand?

The Rise of Kenya’s New Elite

David P. Sandgren

The World's Youngest Failed State

Madhu Narasimhan

Kenya Divided

Out for Gold and Blood in Sudan

Jérôme Tubiana

Kenya’s Worst Enemy

Avoiding Africa’s Oil Curse

Ricardo Soares De Oliveira

Quenching Kenya

Brahma Chellaney

Port of Call

Alexander Wooley

Breakdown in South Sudan

Alex de Waal, Abdul Mohammed

How Zawahiri Lost al Qaeda

William McCants

Sudan and South Sudan Inch Toward War

Jérôme Tubiana

Behind Al Shabab’s Latest Attack

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens

What to Read on Kenyan Politics

Why Drones Work

Africa’s Economic Boom

Shantayanan Devarajan, Wolfgang Fengler

Unhealthy Practice

Leonard S. Rubenstein

Handicapping the Kenyan Election

Sizzling South Sudan

Jihad Comes to Kenya

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens

How to Help African Children At Risk

Anne C. Richard

Negotiating an End to Somalia's War with al Shabaab

Afyare Abdi Elmi , Abdi Aynte

The Splintering of Al Shabaab

Bronwyn Bruton, J. Peter Pham

Sudan’s Oil Crisis Is Only Bashir’s First Problem

Obama Takes on the LRA

Mareike Schomerus, Tim Allen, Koen Vlassenroot

Why Kenya Invaded Somalia

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on the Famine in Somalia

Somalia's Starvation

Sudan Back on the Brink

Bahrain's Base Politics

Alexander Cooley, Daniel H. Nexon

Letter From Abyei: Neither North Nor South

Rebecca Hamilton

Sudan's Secession Crisis

Andrew Natsios, Michael Abramowitz

Securing Justice in Kenya

Letter to the Editor

Swapping Pirates for Commerce

Michael Lyon Baker

Turning the Corner in Kenya

Joel D. Barkan, Makau Mutua

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