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The peace keeping agenda in Africa is ineffective because it focuses on controlling violence through military force - rather than  addressing the causes of conflict such as climate change, competition over resources and marginalisation of the poor. A report by the Oxford Research Group.

The Ethiopian government is dismissing the severity of its country's food insecurity, despite millions of Ethiopians once again facing famine. This politically motivated denial is the cause of disproportionate suffering, argues René Lefort.

One year after the formation of a coalition government in Kenya to address post-electoral violence, a critical report by Judge Phillip Waki has caused a ‘ticking time bomb' for Kenyan politicians and opened up new possibilities for Kenyan civil society.

International response to pirating near the coast of Somalia has focused on a military solution to a highly complex political problem. But with government leaders ignoring the underlying causes of the crisis, do these Somali pirates represent the modern day 'Robin Hood'? By Rubrick Biegon.

The world is holding its breath that the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas holds. Three weeks of violence killed and injured thousands, many of them civilians. The casualties in Gaza, however, pale in comparison with the numbers killed in Africa’s many ongoing wars – many of which go unreported.

Extreme poverty will continue to blight sub-Saharan Africa for another 200 years unless action to overcome it is intensified, a new report has suggested. Reported by David Cronin.

The explosion of piracy off Somalia's coast is an attention-grabbing product of internal chaos in the Horn of Africa country - but what are the underlying causes of economic, political and humanitarian meltdown in Somalia?