Commentary and Analysis

We explore how the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya forever changed the way the US government protects its representatives abroad.

“As we celebrate the LGBTQ community here at home, let’s not forget the fight to protect them elsewhere continues,” writes Elizabeth Shackelford.

Some of the most important innovations in the news media may be happening in Africa. What can we learn?

The fighting in eastern Congo between the DRC and Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 has the potential to escalate, Paul Poast writes.

The Ethiopian government is using starvation as a weapon of war against Tigray, inducing a massive famine that requires immediate action from the international community.

A ceasefire between Ethiopian government forces and Tigrayan rebels brings optimism after years of fighting.

Experts Kathleen Klaus and Murithi Mutiga join Deep Dish to discuss the results of Kenya’s presidential election.

Were the recommendations in the Center on Global Food and Agriculture's 2015 nutrition report successful? The Council examines this question in the third part of our 2021-22 series to find out.

In Africa, “supplying and supporting abusive security forces often directly undermines democracy,” writes Elizabeth Shackelford in the Chicago Tribune.

If food waste were a country, it would be the world's third-largest greenhouse gas emitter behind China and the US.