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Spotlight
published by Abdul-Hakeem Ajijola and Nate D.F. Allen
on March 8, 2022
To address a growing array of cyber threats and challenges, African governments need to adopt cybersecurity strategies that foster collaboration and trust between security, civilian, and private sector stakeholders.
Video
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on March 7, 2022
This public roundtable assessed the range of climate-related security pressures on the continent and the importance of incorporating environmental security into African security policy.
Topic in Focus
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on March 4, 2022
Russia’s influence in Africa typically relies on irregular (and frequently extralegal) means to expand its influence. This low-cost, high influence strategy seeks to advance a very different world order than the rules-based, democratic political systems to which most Africans aspire.
Spotlight
published by Paul Nantulya
on February 22, 2022
To be more meaningful to the lives of citizens and to better realize the vision of its founders, the African Union will need to empower its technical, legislative, and judicial institutions.
Program Materials
On February 24, 2022, this webinar will take stock of climate-related security pressures on the continent and priorities for mitigating them.
Spotlight
published by Anouar Boukhars
on February 8, 2022
Extremist group violence against civilians is driven by context-specific factors—outgroup grievances, intimidation to control territory, and a response to heavy-handed security responses—that require enhanced community-level mitigation and military professionalism.
Infographic
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on January 24, 2022
A 70-percent annual increase in violent events linked to militant Islamist groups in the Sahel propelled a new record of extremist violence in Africa in 2021.
Spotlight
published by Joseph Siegle and Candace Cook
on January 11, 2022
Responding to the coups, conflicts, and other derailments of democratic processes in recent years, Africa’s 2022 elections are, in large part, an effort to right the democratic ship of state on the continent.
Spotlight
published by Nathaniel Allen and Catherine Lena Kelly
on January 4, 2022
African governments are using the pretext of security to restrict digital communications and citizens’ rights. In the process, they are inadvertently contributing to economic losses and greater instability.
Infographic
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on December 17, 2021
The push-pull forces driving African migration continue to intensify, portending expanding African migration within and off the continent in 2022.
Spotlight
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on November 22, 2021
Arms embargoes can be effective but require regional and international buy-in, adequate monitoring, and the imposition of sufficient costs on actors who evade the sanctions.
Infographic
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on October 29, 2021
Global warming is contributing to more and extended heat waves, a tripling of droughts, a quadrupling of storms, and a tenfold increase in flooding in Africa since the 1970s—exacerbating security threats on the continent.