NIAS Area Studies


AFRICA MONITOR

NIAS Area Studies: Africa

NIAS Africa Studies aims to study contemporary Africa through the following verticals: internal politics, peace and conflict issues, civil-military relations, non-traditional security issues, radicalism, regional complexities (Horn of Africa, Sahel and North Africa), geopolitics and external relations, especially with the US, Europe and China. It publishes Africa Monitor (a monthly), with an objective to build capacity amongst the Indian scholars working on Africa.

NIAS Africa Studies also aims to create a network of African scholars in India and African scholars residing in India through an Annual Conclave starting from 2024.

Regular Publications

India-Africa relations: Critical minerals as an emerging domain

Although India’s development assistance and capacity-building initiatives in Africa have long dominated the discourse on their bilateral relations, from 2014 onwards, critical minerals have become an emerging domain of cooperation. Indian investments in Africa and African interest in India have...

Suicide Bombings in Nigeria

In the news On 29 June, three female suicide bombers targeted a wedding, a funeral and a market in northwestern Nigeria’s Borno State. The attacks killed around 32 civilians and injured around 48. Although no group claimed the attack, the armed groups Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province...

Sudan, three years after Omar al Bashir

After the regime change in April 2019, which overthrew the Omar al-Bashir government, there was a hope that the country will slowly march into democracy and economic prosperity. However, the developments in Sudan since October 2021 have placed them in a situation that existed in 2019, with the rolling...

Continuing Human Rights Issues in Ethiopia: Takeaways of the UN report

On 18 September 2023, the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia released a report on the human rights status in Ethiopia. The report highlights the violations of international law and crimes perpetrated in Tigray, Afar, Amhara and Oromia during the period from November 2020 to...

About the team

Research Assistant, NIAS

Postgraduate Scholar, Madras Christian College, Chennai

Postgraduate Scholar, Stella Maris College, Chennai

Postgraduate Scholar, OP Jindal University, Haryana