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

Africa Comment
Who are the Afrikaners?

On 21 May, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa met US President Trump at the White House. This meeting followed the US decision on 12 May to grant refugee status to the 59 White South Afrikaners. Ramaphosa’s visit aimed to reset the bilateral relations between the two countries. However, the...

Rizwana Banu S and Santhiya M
17 June 2025
Africa Short Notes
Nigeria: The Farmer-Herder Clashes

In the news On 7 April, Daily Sabah reported that 52 people were killed and nearly 2,000 were displaced in a series of attacks by gunmen in the Bokkos district of the Plateau state. According to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA): "Over 1,820 individuals have been displaced. Three...

10 April 2025 | GP Short Notes # 912
Africa Issue Brief
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...

S Shaji
11 May 2022
REVIEW REPORTS
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...

Nithyashree RB
17 October 2023

Events

About the team

Anu Maria Joseph

Research Assistant, NIAS

Ayan Datta

Ayan Datta is a Postgraduate Student at the University of Hyderabad. His area of interest includes peace and conflict issues in the Middle East and North Africa region.

C Shraddha

C Shraddha is a Research postgraduate studnet in Diplomacy, Law and Business at OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat. Her research interests include peace and conflict, climate change, student activism and political intersectionalities of gender.