Making Arms Embargoes in Africa More Effective
Arms embargoes can be effective but require regional and international buy-in, adequate monitoring, and the imposition of sufficient costs on actors who evade the sanctions. The African Union’s...
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How Global Warming Threatens Human Security in Africa
Global warming is contributing to more and extended heat waves, a tripling of droughts, a quadrupling of storms, and a tenfold increase in flooding since the 1970s in Africa, exacerbating security...
Conflict Drives Record Levels of Acute Food Insecurity in Africa
Highlights An estimated 106 million Africans face acute food insecurity—an Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) of Phase 3 (crisis) and above. The FAO and WFP report that 400,000...
Bulletin de la Sécurité Africaine - No 39 | juillet 2021: La complexité croissante des conflits entre agriculteurs et éleveurs en Afrique de l’Ouest et centrale
La flambée de violence entre agriculteurs et éleveurs en Afrique est plus pernicieuse que les seuls chiffres de la mortalité, car elle est souvent amplifiée par les questions à forte charge...
The Growing Complexity of Farmer-Herder Conflict in West and Central Africa
The rise of farmer-herder violence in Africa is more pernicious than fatality figures alone since it is often amplified by the emotionally potent issues of ethnicity, religion, culture, and land...
Devastating Human Toll as the Delta COVID Variant Takes Hold in Africa
The surge in the Delta coronavirus variant in Africa is set to cause hundreds of thousands of deaths in the coming months absent a dramatic scaling up of preventative measures and COVID vaccine...
32 Million Africans Forcibly Displaced by Conflict and Repression
Africa continues to experience expanding and record levels of forced displacement—a result of predatory governments, political fragmentation, and violent extremist groups. Africa is experiencing...
L’Afrique a des leçons à tirer de la vague mortelle de COVID en Inde
La vague de COVID-19 en Inde, dynamisée par un variant plus contagieux et un excès de confiance, est un avertissement sévère aux populations africaines, qui doivent rester vigilantes pour contenir la...
Lessons for Africa from India’s Deadly COVID Surge [EN/AR/PT]
The surge in COVID-19 cases in India, spurred by a more transmissible variant and complacency, provides a stark warning to African populations to remain vigilant to contain the pandemic. India has...
African Youth Engaging in Peace and Security
Despite challenges of unemployment, corruption, entrenched political leadership, and political violence, many African youth have found constructive avenues to promote peace, effective governance, and...
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