Sudan: Calls grow for Omar al-Bashir to step down. Twenty-two opposition parties and groups back protesters’ call for president to resign, demand transitional government. Al Jazeera January 1, 2018

He’s handing over the presidency but not necessarily his power Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura New York Times December 14, 2018

New violence eclipses Mali’s plans for peace. The central Mopti Region faces “a bottom-up jihadist revolution.” Philip Kleinfeld IRIN News November 26, 2018

Hit men and power: South Africa’s leaders are killing one other Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekidan New York Times September 30, 2018

Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East by David. D. Kirkpatrick Reviewed by Steve Negus New York Times  August 7, 2018

Mugabe is gone. But his tactics persist in Zimbabwe’s first election without him. Max Bearak Washington Post July 29, 2018

Cambodia’s Dirty Dozen: A long history of rights abuses by Hun Sen’s generals Human Rights Watch June 27, 2018