10/29/20Why Eritrea’s Isaias Afwerki, the tactical authoritarian, might be president for lifeByMartin PlautPublishedOctober 29, 2020
7/9/19The glow of the historic accord between Ethiopia and Eritrea has fadedByMartin PlautPublishedJuly 9, 2019
2/25/19Emperor Haile Selassie’s AU statue joins a growing list of Africa’s troubled memorialsByMartin PlautPublishedFebruary 25, 2019
1/16/19Why al-Shabaab targets Kenya and how to stop the attacksByBrendon J. Cannon, Khalifa University and Martin PlautPublishedJanuary 16, 2019
1/9/19Foreign backing is keeping Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir in power amid citizen uprisingByMartin PlautPublishedJanuary 9, 2019
11/14/18After decades of UN and self-imposed isolation, Eritrea is coming in from the coldByMartin PlautPublishedNovember 14, 2018
11/6/18The hard but valuable lesson black South Africans learned in the First World WarByMartin PlautPublishedNovember 6, 2018
11/3/18The Chinese and Soviets had a bigger role in supporting apartheid than we previously knewByMartin PlautPublishedNovember 3, 2018
7/11/18The backstory of how Ethiopia and Eritrea found peace after 20 yearsByMartin PlautPublishedJuly 11, 2018
12/9/16How Fidel Castro became a hero and a villain in the Horn of AfricaByMartin PlautPublishedDecember 9, 2016
