Foreign Affairs

Bangladesh vs. Sudan: Why One Protest Movement Toppled a Government and the Other Became a Killing Field — Lessons for Nigeria When mass dissent erupts, outcomes hinge less on anger than on institutions, information flows, and the posture of the security elite. Bangladesh’s 2024 student-led uprising forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from office on August 5, 2024; Sudan’s cycles of mass protest since 2019, by contrast, were swallowed by military predation and then a catastrophic civil war. Reading both through data and timelines clarifies what makes protest succeed—or descend into slaughter—and what Nigeria must internalize now. In Bangladesh, the spark…

Why Trump’s Hard Line on Nigeria’s Faith Killings Isn’t Coming from Nowhere—And What “Surgical” Action Should Look Like If you strip out the rhetoric and look only at the numbers, there is a hard reality Washington cannot credibly ignore: lethal attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria are frequent, mass-casualty, and under-prosecuted. Open Doors has, for consecutive years, ranked Nigeria among the deadliest places in the world to be a Christian; its country profile documents millions of Christians across sub-Saharan Africa displaced by violence, with Nigeria prominent in the totals. Event-level reporting matches the aggregate picture. Reuters recorded at least 52…