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The Africa Center for Strategic Studies, the Office of the African Union Youth Envoy, and the African Union’s Youth4Peace Africa Program will organize an academic webinar to analyze the role of youth in promoting awareness about ocean health, protection, and its sustainability. For purposes of this webinar, “youth” refers to professionals under the age of 35.
Video
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on June 7, 2023
Sierra Leone's former president draws on his country's post-war security transformation as a model for reforming Africa's security sectors to be more citizen centric.
Spotlight
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on March 14, 2023
African leaders who hold power indefinitely often employ cults of personality to consolidate power, demand personal fealty, and systematically undermine independent governance institutions.
Spotlight
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on December 20, 2022
Creating a culture of military professionalism requires instilling core societal values within all members of the armed forces. Such shared values have a powerful unifying effect on a military, amplifying force cohesion and effectiveness.
Infographic
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on December 7, 2022
Declines in Africa’s rich ecological biodiversity threaten millions of livelihoods, increased food insecurity, conflicts over land, and transmission of zoonotic diseases that can lead to more pandemics.
Infographic
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on November 8, 2022
Rising ocean levels threaten dozens of Africa’s rapidly expanding coastal metropolises, resulting in shrinking land area, coastal flooding, more powerful storm surges, and the need for better mitigation.
Spotlight
published by Paul Nantulya
on October 12, 2022
China’s support for ruling parties undermines its ability to be an impartial arbiter of conflict resolution in the Horn of Africa and highlights China’s use of mediation to pursue its geostrategic interests.
Russia has deployed the shadowy paramilitary outfit, the Wagner Group, in at least a half dozen African countries in recent years, leaving a wake of instability for the citizens of the host country and the further retrenchment of illiberal actors.
Africa Security Brief No. 41
published by Michael Shurkin
on July 25, 2022
Adapting Sahelian force structures to lighter, more mobile, and integrated units will better support the population-centric COIN practices needed to reverse the escalating trajectory of violent extremist attacks.
Russia’s irregular means of gaining influence in Africa are destabilizing for the continent and disenfranchising for African citizens.
Spotlight
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on July 11, 2022
Kenya’s competitive presidential elections reflect hard-earned progress in establishing independent constitutional and judicial guardrails, though a history of electoral violence demands all sides show restraint.
Infographic
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on June 17, 2022
Reinforcing cycles of unsustainable human activity and intensifying climate effects are exacerbating the threats facing hundreds of millions of Africans.