Soufan IntelBrief

IntelBrief: Managing Africa's Youth Bulge

Adrienne Chuck — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:46:58 -0500

IntelBrief: Implications of the Kenyan Elections

Adrienne Chuck — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:57:17 -0500

In the latest in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Ansari Center Deputy Director Bronwyn Bruton argues that while International Criminal Court (ICC)-indicted Uhuru Kenyatta has secured a presidential victory in the recent Kenyan elections, he is unlikely to be ostracized by the international community, which has little leverage and too much to lose if relations with Nairobi become strained.

IntelBrief: Eritrea on the Edge

Adrienne Chuck — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:29:38 -0600

IntelBrief: India's New African Horizons

Adrienne Chuck — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:40:34 -0600

IntelBrief: Mali: Nowhere to Go But Down

Adrienne Chuck — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:01:48 -0600

In the latest in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Ansari Center Director J. Peter Pham and Deputy Director Bronwyn Bruton argue that Mali’s plunge into failed state status has its roots in politics—specifically the persistent political and economic marginalization of the Tuareg and other northerners by successive central governments—and, thus, the French intervention risked exacerbating and prolonging the crisis.

IntelBrief: The Missing Link: Sub-State Governance in Africa

Adrienne Chuck — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:54:05 -0600

In the latest in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Ansari Center Deputy Director Bronwyn Bruton argues that while decentralization is increasingly the norm across Africa, with “almost every country on the continent engaging in local elections and resource sharing, or at least paying lip service to such notions,” the United States and its European allies have been slow to engage with sub-state governance structures, even on security-related concerns where the growing threat from transnational and al-Qaeda-linked terrorist networks add urgency to the need to bolster local authorities.

IntelBrief: Somalia: Pirates Down and Out…for Now

Adrienne Chuck — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:23:37 -0600

IntelBrief: Sudanese Hub, Iranian Nexus

Adrienne Chuck — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:00:36 -0500

In the latest in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Ansari Center Director J. Peter Pham explores the background behind the destruction of an arms factory south of Khartoum last week—an attack which Sudanese officials have blamed on Israel, whose government has refused comment—to Iran’s growing reach in Africa, both as a strategic objective in itself and as a means to funnel arms to Tehran’s allies elsewhere in Africa and the Middle East.