Governments have learned to manage many threats, but they are failing to curb the growing power of organized crime.

Without new measures to build democratic institutions, entrenched corruption, migration, and violence will only get worse.  

Debates about sanctions obscure the real crisis in Zimbabwe. 

Last week’s announcement by Inuwa Kashifu Abdullahi, the director general of Nigeria’s National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), that the government had reversed its Twitter ban after seven months has gone virtually unnoticed. If the Buhari government expected Twitter users and small businesses hurt by the original ban to be falling over themselves in gratitude, all it got was something bordering on a collective shrug of the shoulders.