Category: Cameroon

• Can Regional Effort Uproot Boko Haram in Time for Nigeria Elections?

  February 14, 2015

  Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria

  (Originally published in World Politics Review on February 13, 2015) Last weekend, Nigeria’s electoral commission announced that, contrary to statements made just days prior by the chief of defense staff and the chief of army staff, the country’s security forces could not guarantee the safe conduct of presidential and parliamentary elections originally scheduled for Feb. 14 and 28. The Read.

• Median Ages in Africa + Leader Tenure in Power

  November 2, 2014

  Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of the Congo, Swaziland, Uganda, Zimbabwe

  There’s nothing like a political crisis to get me blogging again. Following last week’s mass protests in Burkina Faso that resulted in the resignation and exile of Blaise Compaoré, who had ruled the country since 1987, I thought it would be cool to juxtapose the median ages African countries with the tenure in power of Compaoré and Read.

• Rise in Gulf of Guinea Piracy Calls Attention to Need for Regional Cooperation

  April 24, 2012

  Cameroon, ECCAS, ECOWAS, Nigeria, Piracy

  Yesterday, the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre released its quarterly report on Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships, which highlighted the rise in pirate attacks in West Africa – mainly in Nigeria. While there were 10 reported pirate attacks in Nigeria for all of 2011, in the first three months of 2012, there have Read.