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South Africa has made a number of impressive contributions to regional and local maritime and oceanic governance thus far in 2013. However, the resulting global, regional and national commitments...
African maritime insecurity, particularly in connection with acts of piracy, has constituted an important field of study for security researchers in recent years. It has also frequently made local...
The first board meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in August 2012 has been a further step towards the operationalisation of one of the future key funds within the architecture of international...
The dilemma facing those trying to solve piracy in Somalia is that any such efforts should start on-shore. Yet piracy’s yields are significant and alternatives are limited. On October 31 2011,...
Activists attending this week’s Rio+20 United Nations (UN) Conference on Sustainable Development have expressed satisfaction that attention was being given to issues of ocean management - a key...
Maritime insecurity in West Africa is fast becoming a major area of concern, particularly given the increase in piracy and armed attacks upon shipping and trade. Altogether 19 incidents of piracy...
Despite the United Nation’s recent declaration that the deadly Horn of Africa famine of 2011 has finally ended, it remains an obvious and inescapable certainty that the continent will soon...
Africa is home to some of the largest lakes in the world, both in size and volume. These lakes play a significant role in the political, social, economic and environmental life of many of the...
At the Maritime & Coastal Security Africa (MCSA) conference held in Cape Town from the 26th to 28th October, presenters frequently alluded to the problems posed by toxic waste pollution and the...
Amid the independence celebrations in Juba, South Sudan, on July 9, many observers might have overlooked the presence of representatives of Somaliland, a territory that hopes to imitate South...
It has long been a popular assumption that the major wars and conflicts of the future will be fought over water. This has framed the thinking around which most states and communities around the...