Photo Essays
Making sense of a bizarre firefight in Somalia
In the middle of 2015, Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, best known as al-Shabaab, was about to unleash several noteworthy and significant attacks on AMISOM forces across […]
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Snapshot analysis: Boko Haram’s latest (June 2015) video
On 23 June, the Islamist militant group Boko Haram released a new video showing some of their recent activities. They did so under their newly adopted name: Wilayat Gharb […]
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Local Voices: Armed Militias in Masisi
This article has been republished with the kind permission of Search for Common Ground. With a few hundred men, the APCLS is one of the numerous armed groups who […]
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The Days That Started a War in South Sudan
The killing of civilians in Juba, South Sudan in mid-December set the stage for the civil war that has torn the country apart over the last five months. Although the […]
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Visualizing the Small Arms Trade
Trying to produce intelligent policy responses to, and informed public debate around, the proliferation of small arms across the world requires that the information […]