Institute for Security Studies
Corruption in Africa deepens the wounds of Covid-19
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 19th May 2022 Widespread corruption during the pandemic has worsened the devastating effect of Covid-19 on Africa’s economy. Since the continent’s first case was... →
The Gambia’s president faces a tricky second term
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 18th May 2022 Despite Adama Barrow’s comfortable win in December’s presidential elections, his party failed to clinch a convincing majority in recent National... →
Organised banditry is destroying livelihoods in Niger’s borderlands
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 17th May 2022 Most international attention on Niger focuses on the Boko Haram conflict in the country’s east (Diffa region) and the Liptako-Gourma crisis in its... →
New Panel of the Wise faces old challenges
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 13th May 2022 At the African Union’s (AU) February summit, four new members were appointed for a three-year term on the Panel of the Wise. Given the many... →
Is climate change to blame for KwaZulu-Natal’s flood damage?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 13th May 2022 A month ago, floods in the country’s eastern KwaZulu-Natal province killed 489 people, destroyed 4 000 houses and displaced about 40 000 residents.... →
Africa’s solutions to conflict are in crisis
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 11th May 2022 Africa faces widespread instability. In the past year, there have been coups in Mali, Chad, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Guinea, and attempts to... →
Burkina Faso’s junta under pressure to deliver on security promises
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 10th May 2022 The junta in power in Ouagadougou justified the 24 January coup by citing the inability of former president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré’s government... →
Charting the course to shared prosperity in Nigeria
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 9th May 2022 Despite a well-educated elite and abundant natural resources, Nigeria has become symbolic of unfulfilled potential due to leadership failure, weak... →
Now the East African Community tackles the eastern DRC’s rebels
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 6th May 2022 Will the East African Community’s (EAC) gambit to try to bring peace to the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s chronically turbulent east succeed... →
Rising insecurity a setback for The Gambia’s transition
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 6th May 2022 After two decades of dictatorship, The Gambia embraced democracy with President Adama Barrow’s 2016 election victory. But as is often the case in... →
