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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.
Pan-Africanism's long legacy as a framework for ending colonialism and advancing peace, people-based democracy, and human rights remains as vital as ever for reclaiming citizen agency.
Disinformation campaigns seeking to manipulate African information systems have surged nearly fourfold since 2022, triggering destabilizing and antidemocratic consequences.
By co-opting apex courts, incumbents bent on regime survival can entrench themselves in power while maintaining what their citizens consider to be sham democracies.
The Africa Center for Strategic Studies and the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) held an academic webinar to increase awareness and knowledge among African youth about disinformation and its effects on security in Africa.
Fatalities linked to militant Islamist violence jumped by 20 percent in 2023, claiming more than 23,000 lives—a new record. Over 80 percent of these deaths were in the Sahel and Somalia.
Africa plays an important role as a transit point for the flow of cocaine between Europe and Latin America, with important security, financial, and public health implications, particularly in West and North Africa. While foreign criminal organizations from South America and Europe continue to dominate, the movement of cocaine within Africa is dependent upon African traders from Morocco and Niger. Police in Africa have also recently dismantled several clandestine cocaine processing labs. Increasing awareness is required to mount effective challenges to cocaine trafficking across the subregion.
Structural factors continue to drive higher levels of migration within and out of Africa. While this represents a vital source of labor for host countries, irregular migration continues to pose extraordinary risks.
Africa’s special relationship with India provides a foundation for a mutually beneficial and sustainable partnership built on African agency and capacity building.
Throughout West Africa, popular conceptions of state legitimacy shape illicit economies and present obstacles to effective organized crime responses. When state power and policies are seen as illegitimate, challenges to government authority emerge and illicit markets tied to conflict, terrorism, and narcotics trafficking proliferate. To engage with communities more effectively, states should rethink their approach to criminalization and work to shrink criminal space and markets.
China envisages professional military education in Africa as an opportunity to promote China’s governance model while deepening ties to Africa’s ruling political parties.
Term limit evasions are at the root of a host of governance dysfunctions in Africa and are linked to higher levels of autocracy, corruption, conflict, and propensity for coups.