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Oct 9, 2018

Hruby in Axios: With New Investments, Ethiopian Airlines Expands African Aviation Market

By Aubrey Hruby

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Ethiopia

In the News

Oct 5, 2018

Pham Joins VOA to Discuss Melania Trump’s Trip to Africa and Another South Sudan Peace Deal

By J. Peter Pham

Listen to the full discussion here.

East Africa

In the News

Oct 4, 2018

Pham Quoted in Foreign Policy on South Sudan

By J. Peter Pham

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East Africa

New Atlanticist

Oct 3, 2018

South Sudan’s first vice president optimistic about peace, but no one is buying It

By Ashish Kumar Sen

The almost 400,000 people killed over the past five years “is a higher mortality rate vis-à-vis population than the civil war in Syria,” said J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center.

Conflict
Crisis Management

Event Recap

Oct 2, 2018

High-level roundtable with South Sudan’s First Vice President Taban Deng Gai

By Africa Center

On October 2, the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center hosted a roundtable with Taban Deng Gai, currently first vice president of the Republic of South Sudan, on the situation in his country following the signing of the most recent peace agreement between President Salva Kiir and former First Vice President Riek Machar last month. Dr. J. […]

Africa
Conflict

New Atlanticist

Sep 21, 2018

Fifth anniversary of Westgate Mall attack: Fighting Al-Shabaab in Africa

By Ashish Kumar Sen

By the end of a four-day siege—the worst attack on Kenyan soil since the 1998 US Embassy bombing by al Qaeda—sixty-seven people were dead and more than two hundred wounded.

East Africa
Somalia

In the News

Sep 15, 2018

Pham Quoted in FT on South Sudan Peace Deal

By J. Peter Pham

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Sudan

New Atlanticist

Sep 13, 2018

In South Sudan, it’s déjà vu all over again

By Ashish Kumar Sen

In December of 2013, the world’s youngest nation was plunged back into a familiar cycle of violence after Kiir accused his vice president, Machar, of plotting to overthrow him.

Conflict
Democratic Transitions

In the News

Sep 13, 2018

Pham Joins VOA to Discuss Sudanese Cabinet

By J. Peter Pham

Listen to the full discussion here.

Sudan

New Atlanticist

Sep 11, 2018

Eritrea and Ethiopia: Troops remain, but is peace closer?

By Bronwyn Bruton

Events on September 11 suggest that the troop withdrawal—and with it, the normalization of politics on both sides of the border—is getting much closer.

Conflict
Eritrea
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Jeannine B. Scott

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Thomas S. Warrick

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