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