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Spotlight
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on March 24, 2025
Rivalries among Tigrayan political leaders threaten to derail the process of reintegrating Tigray into Ethiopia’s federal structure and could rapidly escalate into a wider conflict involving Eritrea and regional actors.
Infographic
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on February 18, 2025
Fatalities and violent events linked to militant Islamist groups in Africa sustained near record pace, with the Sahel and Somalia accounting for 79 percent of related deaths.
Spotlight
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on February 10, 2025
Kenya’s effort to instill a culture of military professionalism is founded on respect for the constitution, cultivating service-oriented leadership, and a commitment to building a merit-based, well-educated, representative, and ethical force.
Program Materials
Infographic
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on December 17, 2024
Africa’s persisting conflicts are compounding crises of governance on the continent, straining already fragile regions and opening the door to foreign exploitation through proxy forces, resource trafficking, and information manipulation.
Infographic
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on December 10, 2024
Extensive flooding in more than two dozen African countries due to higher-than-average rainfall has resulted in thousands of fatalities, millions of people displaced, and devastated infrastructure.
Infographic
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on October 15, 2024
Eighty percent of the record 163 million Africans facing acute food insecurity are in conflict-affected countries, including potentially 840,000 people confronting famine in Sudan, South Sudan, and Mali.
Infographic
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on September 4, 2024
The number of African refugees, internally displaced persons, and asylum seekers grew by 14 percent over the past year—to more than 45 million people.
Infographic
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on August 13, 2024
Fatalities linked to militant Islamist violence in Africa have surged by nearly 60 percent since 2021, though this is marked by widely varying regional threat trajectories, actors, and objectives.
Program Materials
This three-week, in-person seminar is designed to facilitate participants’ engagement in interdisciplinary peer learning about strategic and adaptive leadership and its implications for the effective management of African security challenges.
Spotlight
published by Nate Allen and Nicole Mazurova
on April 30, 2024
The use of United Nations–assessed contributions to support African Union–led peace operations has the potential to revitalize peace operations in Africa.
Spotlight
published by Francois Vreÿ and Mark Blaine
on April 9, 2024
Missile and armed drone strikes by Houthi militias and hijackings by Somali pirates have destabilized maritime shipping from the Red Sea to the Western Indian Ocean, impacting security and trade for all of Africa.