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

South Sudan’s Dismal Tenth Birthday

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

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

When There Was No Aid: War and Peace in Somaliland

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

Two Books on Islamist Militants in Africa

Red Sea Rivalries

Can Ethiopia’s Reforms Succeed?

Water Wars on the Nile

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

The Alarming Decline of Democracy in East Africa

Were the Kenyan Elections Conducted Successfully?

Securing Somalia

A New Tool to Fight Genocide

Africa’s Theater of War

The Softer Side of Jihad

Terrorist Tug-of-War

Crime and Punishment in Kenya

Sermonizing With Al Shabab

China Comes to Djibouti

Kenya’s Own Worst Enemy

Terrorist Turf Wars

False Security in Kenya

Al Shabab’s Last Stand?

Kenya’s Worst Enemy

Avoiding Africa’s Oil Curse

Behind Al Shabab’s Latest Attack

Africa’s Economic Boom

Unhealthy Practice

Jihad Comes to Kenya

The Splintering of Al Shabaab

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

Why Kenya Invaded Somalia

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on the Famine in Somalia

Somalia's Starvation

Sudan Back on the Brink

Letter From Abyei: Neither North Nor South

Securing Justice in Kenya

Sudan's Secession Crisis

Swapping Pirates for Commerce

Turning the Corner in Kenya

Letter From Khartoum: Sudan’s Empty Election

Q&A With Andrew Natsios on Sudan

Waltz With Bashir

Blowing the Horn

Tribal Politics Harass Kenya

Native Policy in East Africa

Two Lessons in Colonial Rule

The Destiny of East Africa

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