Institute for Security Studies
Fewer guns will save women’s lives in South Africa
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 16th August 2021 Fifty-eight percent of South Africa’s domestic violence murder victims from April to June 2020 were women, according to national police statistics.... →
Libya’s promising transition stalls
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 13th August 2021 The surge of hope inspired by the remarkable breakthrough in Libya’s year-old peace process is starting to fade as negotiations to enable viable... →
UN report on nutrition gives Africa food for thought
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 12th August 2021 The latest United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report shows a... →
Gold diggers and rent seekers strip Tanzania’s wealth
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 11th August 2021 Gold accounts for a sizeable portion of Tanzania’s export earnings, overtaking tourism in 2020 as the country’s biggest foreign exchange earner.... →
Nigeria’s north needs jobs, not oil
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 10th August 2021 Nigeria’s Petroleum Industry Bill was passed on 1 July, potentially ending a 13-year stalemate since it was first introduced in 2008. It is... →
Madagascar needs to change the plot
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 6th August 2021 It started ‘like a bad spy novel’ – as one Malagasy commentator put it. In July, an amateurish coup plot was hatched by a seemingly Walter... →
More public order police is no easy answer for South Africa
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 5th August 2021 The chaotic unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng last month, in which over 300 people died, resulted from a conspiracy to destabilise South Africa.... →
Amid economic collapse, Zambians head to the polls
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 4th August 2021 Zambians head to the polls on 12 August amid mounting economic challenges, reports of election-related political violence and Covid-19. The country... →
Islamic State’s determined expansion into Lake Chad Basin
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 3rd August 2021 African states must act quickly to stop the restructuring of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in the Lake Chad Basin. If they don’t,... →
The Arab Spring struggle is far from over
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 2nd August 2021 On 17 December 2010 a young Tunisian, Mohamed Bouazizi, immolated himself as a sign of protest in the small town of Sidi Bouzid. This dramatic,... →
