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The Africa Center invites you to a webinar that will examine the strategic significance of the space domain to Africa’s security landscape and explore current national approaches to engaging with the space domain. This program is open to all Africa Center alumni, partners, communities of interest, and stakeholders within the U.S. government, who are welcome to share this invitation with interested colleagues.
Program Overview
The Africa Center is pleased to be hosting a webinar titled “The Space Domain and Africa’s Security Landscape,” extending an invitation to all Africa Center alumni, partners, communities of interest, and stakeholders within the U.S. government. This webinar will explore the security implications of increased human activity in space, the space domain’s importance to terrestrial security, and avenues for collaboration and alignment with U.S. values and interests.
In 2023, nearly twenty-five years after the first African-built satellite, SUNSAT, was launched into space, the African Union launched the African Space Agency (AfSA). Since SUNSAT, 55 satellites from nearly twenty African nations have been launched into orbit. Increasingly, the space domain has emerged as a national imperative in countries across the continent. As more African nations develop space programs, with particular interest in the commercial aspect of this domain, it necessitates a discussion over the long-term security implications of space domain development.
Related Resources
- Center for Strategic & International Studies, “The African Space Race,” CSIS, April 30, 2021.
- Julie Michelle Klinger and Temidayo Oniosun, “The China’s Space Collaboration with Africa: Implications and Recommendations for the United States,” United States Institute for Peace, September 19, 2023.
- National Space Program Management Office, “Spatial Strategy of the Republic of Angola,” GGPEN Angola, December 2016.
Moderated by:
- Dr. Nate Allen
Panelists:
- Dr. Zolana João
- Brigadier General Hillary Kipkosgey
- Mr. Temidayo Oniosun