Institute for Security Studies
UN peacekeeping in Africa needs tighter parameters
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 29th November 2022 Peacekeeping is one of the United Nations’ (UN) most important conflict management tools, but policymakers, host countries and experts agree that... →
Equatorial Guinea: how not to rig, or observe an election
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 28th November 2022 Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has clearly not read Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas’s book How to Rig an Election, which... →
Going for gold: Africa’s young footballers exploited by smugglers
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 24th November 2022 Amid the excitement of the FIFA World Cup that kicked off on 20 November, there can be no denying that transnational organised crime is part of the... →
Women have a vital role in Cameroon’s reintegration process
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 24th November 2022 Women in Cameroon need a role in encouraging Boko Haram members to leave the group and reintegrate back into communities. Many of the terror... →
Police could do far more to make South Africa safer 
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 22nd November 2022 Rising levels of murder and robbery, gender-based violence, embedded organised crime and police corruption characterise South Africa’s crime... →
Putting cyber resilience in Africa centre stage
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 21st November 2022 With global attention on the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm-el-Sheikh, the question of how to make long-term,... →
Could G20 or BRICS be Africa’s route to global influence?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 18th November 2022 Africa lacks a permanent seat on the United Nations (UN) Security Council – a situation that will likely remain for a long time. Does membership of... →
No silver bullet to stop cattle rustling in East Africa
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 17th November 2022 In April, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni launched a disarmament exercise in north-eastern Uganda and deployed the military to carry it out. The... →
Can Mozambique’s march to authoritarianism be stopped?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 17th November 2022 In his first three years after becoming president in 2015, Filipe Nyusi’s governance led Mozambique to fall in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s... →
Could COP27 still shift views on climate migrants?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 15th November 2022 While climate-linked migration and displacement (‘mobility’) feature throughout discussions at the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference... →
