The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced that Tanja Hendriks, along with 17 Leiden University researchers, will receive a Veni grant, embedded at the ASCL. Hendriks will work on the research project 'Taking risks with disasters: speculative humanitarianism and climate change in Malawi'.

In April 2023 violence erupted in Sudan between the armed forces and the RSF. Since then, the violence has taken the lives of more than 150,000 people and displaced over 12,000. In the media this conflict has received limited attention. The African Library has been keeping track of selected resources.

In a blog for the Global Health in Africa course of the Research Master African Studies, student Christiana Banja argues that we need to think differently about health in Africa: one that is fair, respectful, and includes everyone’s voice.

In this book, John Kegel places the final phase of the four-year civil war that formed the immediate context of the Rwandan Genocide, at the heart of the narrative. Kegel contends that it forms the bedrock of a real understanding of Rwanda between 1990 and 1994, and beyond.

After four days of exchanging knowledge, networking, and gathering new ideas at the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS, 25-28 June), the ASCL delegation left Prague more than inspired. ECAS 2025 engaged with 'African, Afropolitan and Afropean forms of belonging and positioning'.

On 2 June, Mayke Kaag gave a keynote speech at the UN Headquarters in New York about the importance of trust and trust-making in African politics for security sector reform. The other keynote speaker was renowned economist Paul Collier. Both keynotes can now be watched online.