South Sudan achieved independence in 2011 after five decades of struggle and enjoyed substantial international support. However, within two and a half years, the dream of independence lay in ruins as fighting led to a bloody civil war.

Ultimately, amnesty and rehabilitation initiatives will remain a hard sell while public faith in Kenya’s security apparatus is low, as Richard Downie from CSIS Africa Program writes in a new commentary.

Eastern Congo is highly unlikely to become the leading coffee or cocoa producer, but there is potential to scale up coffee and cocoa production in the DRC in a sustainable way that improves the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.

Can the once-thriving coffee sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) be revived? An increasing number of players seem to think so, including donors, coffee companies, the Congolese government, and many thousands of farmers. Their initial investments, centered on the...

U.S. investments to tackle HIV/AIDS by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (Global Fund) have saved millions of lives and enabled us to see how the world might bring an end to AIDS as a...

Africa featured prominently on the agenda of the annual summit of the Group of Twenty (G20), held July 7–8 in Hamburg, Germany. Led by an initiative of the German chair, the heads of state of 20 of the world’s leading economies agreed on the establishment of a G20...

India has engineered one of the most dramatic economic and developmental transformations in modern history. Since 1991, when a bailout from the International Monetary Fund accelerated government efforts to liberalize the economy, India’s GDP has grown by an average...

Nigeria’s health system has partially collapsed under the weight of its citizens’ health needs and decades of neglect, mismanagement, and underfunding by the government. Health services have been sustained by donors, the private sector, and patients themselves, who pay...