Commentaries

Azerbaijan has ethnically and religiously cleansed Nagorno Karabakh of Armenian Christians, something CSI and other human rights groups had long warned would happen. The UN Security Council failed to act on these warnings. Its paralysis is due to a growing geopolitical dependence on an emerging pan-Turkic imperial constellation, writes CSI President John Eibner.

In September 2023, Azerbaijan and Turkey achieved a goal they had been pursuing together for over a century – the destruction of the millennia-old Armenian Christian community of Nagorno Karabakh (or Artsakh), writes Joel Veldkamp.

As Nigerians prepare to elect a new president in 2023, the country is embroiled in another round of ethnoreligious crisis. The controversy this time centers on the ruling All Progressives Congress party’s (APC) decision to nominate two Muslims as their flagbearers for the offices of the president and vice president: Bola Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos State, and Kashim Shettima, former governor of Borno State, writes Franklyne Ogbunwezeh.

In recent years, Kaduna State in northwestern Nigeria has become an epicenter of unprovoked killings, especially of Christians and other ethnic minorities. In the southern half of the state, hundreds, if not thousands, of communities have been destroyed, displaced and in some cases occupied by AK-47-wielding Fulani herdsmen militias, one of the deadliest terrorist movements in the world, writes journalist Steven Kefas.