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Carol Jean Gallo is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and does research on peace and security in Africa. She keeps a blog at www.usalama.wordpress.com.

After Decades of Authoritarian Rule is Ethiopia Really on the Path Toward Democratic Renewal?

Carol Jean Gallo
November 21, 2018
Ethiopia has been getting quite a bit of attention in the news lately for taking seemingly significant shifts towards becoming an open democracy. Earlier this year, intensifying protests led to the sudden re...

This is What the #SOSNicaragua Hashtag Is All About

Carol Jean Gallo
April 30, 2018
Around April 19, the hashtag #SOSNicaragua emerged on Twitter. It tells a troubling story of growing demonstrations in the capital Managua and several other cities around the country, sparked by government chan...

A Coup in Zimbabwe? Robert Mugabe is Seemingly Deposed

Carol Jean Gallo
November 15, 2017
The Zimbabwean military has apparently taken control in the capital city of Harare and detained longtime president Robert Mugabe. Army spokesperson spokesman Maj Gen SB Moyo (below) addressed the nation after t...

Sudan is still listed as a state sponsor of terrorism – so why did the US just lift sanctions?

Carol Jean Gallo
October 25, 2017
Earlier this month, the US government decided to lift economic sanctions on Sudan. These sanctions have been in place since 1997, and were put there for some pretty serious offenses, such as harboring Osama bin...

Trump wants to dismantle Wall Street Reform. Here’s what that could mean for…Congo

Carol Jean Gallo
July 26, 2017
The Trump administration’s hostility toward the 2010 Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (aka the Dodd-Frank Act) should come as no surprise, given Trump’s campaign promise to dismantle the entire la...

After an Internet blackout, Congolese are taking to the streets of Brazzaville: Here’s why

Carol Jean Gallo
July 11, 2017
Last month, people in the Republic of Congo lost their Internet -- and they remained offline for a week. People immediately suspected the government was behind the shutoff. This would come as no surprise as the...

The Kasai Region of the Congo Could Become Africa’s Next Hotspot

Carol Jean Gallo
May 30, 2017
Earlier this year, on March 12, two United Nations investigators – American Michael Sharp and Swedish-Chilean Zaida Catalan – went missing in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Just ove...
A UN Peacekeeping Unit in South Sudan patrols an area where conflict destroyed thousands of acres of cropland

A Famine is Never Just a Famine — It’s Political Violence By Starvation.

Carol Jean Gallo
March 22, 2017
We are entering an age of famine. But the extreme food crises facing South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Northern Nigeria are not solely a consequence of natural disaster or climate change. Rather, people are star...
A Sahrawi man with the Western Saharan flag. Photo by: Michele Benericetti

The New UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres Just Made Some Progress on a Long Stalled Dispute in North Africa

Carol Jean Gallo
March 1, 2017
Around the world there are a number of conflicts and disputes that have essentially been frozen in place for many years  -- and in some cases many decades. These include territorial disputes in places like Cypr...
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