Seats Are Not Enough — Patriarchy Must Be Dismantled
For centuries, women and girls have been told to wait their turn, to negotiate harder, to adjust to the structures that exclude them. Yet...
The Desperate Need for Gender Mainstreaming in Africa
The African continent stands at a critical juncture in its pursuit of sustainable development, inclusive governance, and peace. Women and girls represent more than...
Right to Peace in Ethiopia: Constitutional Promises and Tigrayan Realities
The Ethiopian Constitution of 1995, adopted during the EPRDF and framed as a foundation for a democratic federation, places peace at the center of...
Ethiopia’s Civil Society at a Crossroads: Reform or Reversal?
The Civil Societies Proclamation No. 1113/2019 (the “2019 Proclamation”) marked a clear legal break with Ethiopia’s repressive 2009 Charities and Societies regime and reopened...
From Gaza to Tigray: Starvation is Not a Tragedy—It’s a Crime
In July 2025, the World Health Organization warned that “malnutrition is on a dangerous trajectory in the Gaza Strip, marked by a spike in...
Minerals Over Peace? Rethinking the DRC-Rwanda Accord
On June 27, 2025, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda signed what has been touted as a significant peace agreement in...
Starved of Aid: How Trump-Era Cuts Are Driving Tigray’s Displaced into Desperation
In the windswept IDP camps of Tigray, hollowed eyes stare across makeshift shelters. Once vibrant communities, now reduced to fragments of survival, are being...
Black Africans in Libya: A Test of Africa’s Conscience and the Deafening Silence of the African Union
In 2025, as the African Union (AU) heralds a bold theme—“Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations”—a silent catastrophe unfolds just...
The Fuel Embargo on Tigray is a siege
Tigray is once again facing a calculated blockade—not through direct military assault, but through economic strangulation that threatens lives just as effectively as war....
Betrayed and Abandoned: The Starvation and Persecution of Ex-Tigrayan UN Peacekeepers in Sudan
In the vast and unforgiving deserts of eastern Sudan, in a place that few in the world have ever heard of, a humanitarian catastrophe...