The Current Analyst Blog

Late Trump neglect

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· The present Ethiopia/Tigray crisis has a problem seen from the point of view of Washington : there is nobody firmly in charge and no policy view is offered

· So everything falls back on Under-Secretary Tibor Nagy’s lap and ,by default…

THE THINGS THAT KEEP ME AWAKE AT NIGHT: All in One!

Though it ended on a note of extraordinary bleakness of the country’s political economy my starting point was dissatisfaction with the pernicious geopolitical move of the leadership.

Foreign Military Forces: The African Conundrum

The more consequential question, therefore, is what kind of players will remain engaged in or disengaged from.

To the extent that African ownership is emphasized it has always been accompanied by the presence of foreign…

Africa’s Indefensible Delay

A combination of over ambition, honest expectation and donor dependence had trumped a highly needed continental military, a quick reaction capacity that would enable Africans to respond swiftly to a crisis unhampered by any heavy political and instrumental burdens. At the July…

A Historic Statement

T. Kamau

Recent developments in the International Court of Justice/ICJ/ have drawn public attention away from military and boundary disputes between African states to a question that is so much political and moral: self-determination and upholding basic rights of…

For the record:

a) With respect to branding ongoing conflicts

Externalizing drivers of conflict offer little prospects for their resolution!

The salient feature of ongoing conflicts in Ethiopia is that it was not caused by some external shock. The externalization…

The EPRDF is flat-shifted; the TPLF is tactically defeated.

Time has come to say the following.

Since the changing of the guard in early 2018 the new leadership has stepped up its commitment to alter the significance of the EPRDF using various internal and…

Africa, America, and the Rest

The US has outlined a sort of new, though jumbled policy, on Africa. While America seems enthusiastic about new commercial ties with the continent the new strategy is largely composed of old hysteria, lectures, and chapters of previous frenzy psychological and social…

The Upcoming Elections in the DRC: What’s at Stake?

Presidential, legislative and provincial elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are scheduled to take place on 23 December 2018, following a two-year lapse since the expiration of President Joseph Kabila’s mandate. The polls could potentially bring about the…