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Review of: John Young, The Fate of Sudan: The Origins and Consequences of a Flawed Peace Process, London, Zed Books, 2012.

One of the truisms about Sudan is that the more you know about the country, the harder […]

Reclaiming Activism

For most of my adult life I introduced myself as an “activist” first and a writer, researcher, or practitioner of humanitarian action or peacemaking second. Then, about seven or eight years […]

Remarks at the Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, 20 April 2012.

The first step in mastering a problem is to understand it, and to analyze the interests and logics of those who […]

Several people have sent in questions to Alex de Waal in in response to his article, “African Roles in the Libyan Conflict of 2011″ available in the March 2013 edition of International Affairs. Below are de Waal’s […]

The World Peace Foundation invites you to submit questions in response to this article for Alex de Waal to answer. You can submit a question as a comment to this article, through our facebook page, or via twitter […]

In the February 8, 2013 edition of the Times Literary Supplement, Alex de Waal reviews Chinua Achebe’s There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra. You will need a subscription to access it.

Foreign Affairs, February 7, 2013

In the third installment of Foreign Affairs’ five-part series on the world’s fastest growing economies, Alex de Waal argues that, growth is relative to the contraction of the […]

Overview

This memorandum outlines the African Union (AU) peace initiative for Libya during 2011, arguing that the proposal was unfairly derided and dismissed by the western powers. The African approach was […]

On CNN‘s website, Alex de Waal argues that Sudan and South Sudan’s long term needs are being held hostage to short term calculations.

Eighteen months after the secession of South Sudan, its future is still tied […]

Every observer of the situation in West Africa will answer that yes, Mali is a disastrously failed state: it was rotten to the core and collapsed a year ago with expected alacrity.

But the established indices […]

This essay appears on the website of  The New York Times, December 11, 2012 

MALI faces a deep crisis that demands a political strategy toward a long-term settlement. What’s on offer today, namely sending a […]

In the forthcoming edition of African Affairs, Alex de Waal writes of the late Ethiopian president and his vision for the state he governed for seventeen years. Below is an excerpt, the full essay is available […]

Co-authored with Abdul Mohammed, this op-ed originally appeared on August 22, 2012 in the International Herald Tribune.

The death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi deprives Ethiopia — and Africa as a whole — of an […]

Just over a year ago, on July 9, 2011, South Sudan achieved its much-coveted independence. At the celebrations in Juba, alongside innumerable presidents, foreign minister and heads of international organizations, […]

Somalia’s failed state is not a failed society: many things in Somalia work, including a remarkably effective integration into the global order. In a recent column for the BBC, Mary Harper described a typical day […]

Agenda Setting Lecture, University of Limerick, 2 May 2012

Introduction

In a few months’ time, July this year to be exact, the African Union will be ten years old. In twelve months’ time, we will mark the […]

This contribution was compiled by Magnus Taylor, Managing Editor of African Arguments Online, summarizing Alex de Waal’s African Arguments Online lecture to the Royal African Society on 17th April 2012. It also a […]