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Dec 26, 2012

IntelBrief: The Missing Link: Sub-State Governance in Africa

By Bronwyn Bruton

In the latest in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Ansari Center Deputy Director Bronwyn Bruton argues that while decentralization is increasingly the norm across Africa, with “almost every country on the continent […]

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Nov 21, 2012

IntelBrief: Somalia: Pirates Down and Out…for Now

By Bronwyn Bruton

In the latest in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Ansari Center Deputy Director Bronwyn Bruton notes that the rate of attacks by Somali pirates has plunged and attributes the drop mostly […]

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Nov 1, 2012

IntelBrief: Sudanese Hub, Iranian Nexus

By J. Peter Pham

In the latest in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham explores the background behind the destruction of an arms factory south of Khartoum last week—an attack […]

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Oct 19, 2012

IntelBrief: Kenya: Bringing Terror Home

By Bronwyn Bruton

In the eleventh of a series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Africa Center Deputy Director Bronwyn Bruton draws attention to police persecution of Kenya’s Somali population and warns that a homegrown radicalization problem is brewing.

East Africa

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Oct 1, 2012

IntelBrief: Yemen and Somalia: Assessing the Threat

By Bronwyn Bruton

In the tenth in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Ansari Center Deputy Director Bronwyn Bruton weighs the evidence of and potential for operational cooperation between the various Islamist extremist groups in Yemen […]

Yemen

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Aug 14, 2012

IntelBrief: Zimbabwe’s Ticking Time Bomb

By Bronwyn Bruton

In the ninth in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Ansari Center Deputy Director Bronwyn Bruton examines political dynamics in Zimbabwe as the mandate of the country’s Government of National Unity draws […]

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Jul 19, 2012

Africa in the “New, New World”

By J. Peter Pham

J. Peter Pham, director of the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, contributed a chapter on Africa to the comprehensive study on the future of the United States European Command (EUCOM) recently concluded by the National Defense University’s Center for Transatlantic Security and the Atlantic Council. Download the PDF

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Jul 18, 2012

IntelBrief: China’s Evolving Engagement in Africa

By Adrienne Chuck

In the eighth in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Ansari Center director J. Peter Pham looks at the shifting contours of Sino-African relations.

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Jul 11, 2012

IntelBrief: Perpetual Conflict in the Sudans

By Bronwyn Bruton

In the seventh in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Ansari Center Deputy Director Bronwyn Bruton provides an update on the border dispute between Sudan and South Sudan.

East Africa Sudan

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Jun 27, 2012

IntelBrief: Islamist Extremists Threaten Africa’s Rise

By J. Peter Pham

In the sixth in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Ansari Center director J. Peter Pham examines the spread of violent extremism by Islamist groups operating along the continent-wide Sahel belt as […]

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