East Africa

Meservey: The Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill and the Limits of US Influence in Africa

Africa Center Assistant Director Josh Meservey writes in the Hill on the United States’ inability to pressure Uganda’s president to not sign a controversial anti-gay bill:

Pham: Rwanda’s Turnaround a “Miracle”

By J. Peter Pham

Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham is quoted by U.S. News & World Report on Rwanda’s progress since the genocide that shocked the world twenty years ago:

Pham: Rwanda’s Kagame Deserves Scrutiny

By J. Peter Pham

Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham is quoted in the Jewish Daily Forward on Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s legacy:

Pham: “Impossible to Overlook” Violence in Rwanda

By J. Peter Pham

The Associated Press quotes Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham on recent concern over violence in Rwanda:

Pham Argues for Somalia Pivot at SAIS

Atlantic Council Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham was a featured speaker at a panel discussion at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). The event, which focused on “Crisis in the Horn: How Can the US Support a More Stable and Secure Somalia?,” was moderated by Peter Lewis, associate professor and […]

Pham Discusses Horn of Africa at GW

Atlantic Council Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham was a featured speaker today at the 14th Annual David H. Miller Foundation Lecture at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.

Countering the al-Shabaab Insurgency in Somalia

By Joshua Meservey

Africa Center Assistant Director Joshua Meservey co-authored a Joint Special Operations University monograph with Dr. James Forest, professor and director of the Security Studies program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and the late Dr. Graham Turbiville, Associate Fellow at JSOU’s Strategic Studies Department, on the al-Shabaab insurgency in Somalia.