Institute for Security Studies
Can the AU and UN find common ground on Sudan?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 17th July 2019 Recent developments around Sudan’s transfer of political power show why a more strategic partnership between the African Union (AU) and the United... →
Can the peace-trade equation stabilise the Horn?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 16th July 2019 The launch of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on 7 July at the African Union (AU) summit in Niamey, Niger, has created the largest... →
Ethiopia’s power, security and democracy dilemma
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 15th July 2019 Recent assassinations of senior political and military leaders in Ethiopia sent shock waves across the country, casting another shadow over the... →
Will Ramaphosa’s new reform timetable save Thabane’s skin?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 12th July 2019 South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, the Southern African Development Community’s official facilitator of Lesotho’s reforms, visited that... →
Reform of Libya’s security sector must not fail again
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 11th July 2019 Successive Libyan governments and the international community have worked for eight years to stabilise and reform the country’s security sector.... →
Economics of terrorism in Lake Chad Basin
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 10th July 2019 In the Lake Chad Basin region, which includes Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, economic viability and control is as important to extremist... →
Saving Lake Victoria means going after the big fish
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 9th July 2019 Illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing is threatening the survival of Lake Victoria’s fish populations, and is putting local livelihoods at... →
G20 Compact with Africa is a long game
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 5th July 2019 Africa’s ‘development partners’ still struggle to define and manage their relationship with the continent. This was apparent at the G20 summit in... →
Zimbabwe’s déjà vu moment
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 4th July 2019 On 24 June, familiar feelings of despair accompanied the shock announcement by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube that only Zimbabwe’s quasi-currency,... →
Holding Sudan back from civil war
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 3rd July 2019 After militias killed up to 100 peaceful protesters in Khartoum on 3 June, the African Union’s Peace and Security Council (AU PSC) took swift... →
